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Date:    Thu, 6 May 1999 16:26:13 +0200
From:    Zoran Ostric <[email protected]>
The Green Party of Croatia - Statement about Kosovo
 
GREEN PARTY OF CROATIA
 
STATEMENT ABOUT A GENOCIDE IN KOSOVO AND AN ATTACK TO YUGOSLAVIA
 
Green Party of Croatia support Joschka Fischer, German Minister of
foreign affairs, for actions against the criminal regime of SR
Yugoslavia.
 
A. The collision of values of non-violence and human rights
protection.

We are witnesses of a culmination of the Kosovo crisis, which started
20 years ago. In the end of 20th century, the world is faced with
almost inconceivable human rights violations and destruction of
principles of civilised society. We are witnesses of systematic
destruction of existential basis for two million people - violence,
slaughtering, rapes, expelling.
 
Members of the Green Party of Croatia have been active in actions
against the war and violence and for protection of human rights in
ex-Yugoslavia and in Croatia. We accept non-violence as one of our key
values. However, there are situations of drastic human rights
violations, when a force is needed to stop violence. In contrary of
radical pacifism, that was also a warning of Mahatma Gandhi.
 
>From the year 1991, the ruling regime of FR Yugoslavia, i.e. Serbia,
started a series of wars against other nations of ex-Yugoslavia.
Recently, they decided to challenge in the front of the whole world. A
series of aggression, destruction, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and
genocide (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and now Kosovo) must
be stooped at last.
 
B. Problems caused by the NATO action so far.
 
War action, in spite of their goal to create conditions for a
political solution, resulted only in destruction of FR Yugoslavia till
now. Sufferings of Albanians from Kosovo continued and spreading of
the conflict with introduction of ground troops is more and more real.
All territories of FR Yugoslavia are exposed to be devastated very
hard. Yugoslav citizens are confronted with isolation and without a
hope. Every day they became desperate more and more, and with that
more aggressive. A flow of refugees and expelled people from Kosovo
threat to destabilise neighbouring countries. If a problem is not
solved in the near future, a demographic situation of those countries
will changed and new crisis can be created. More then one million of
refugees shall be a great problem for all of Europe, if their return
to Kosovo will not be make possible. Countries - neighbours of FR
Yugoslavia have hard problems in economy, with dangers to be drawn in
the war against their will. Our country, Republic of Croatia, suffer a
serious damages in economy - tourism, traffic, forward-traffic etc.
The country is in a deep economy crisis and a climate for foreign
investments become worse every day.
 
C. A blockade of the ON
 
In spite of our support for NATO action in the specific case, the
Green Party of Croatia consider that a situation of NATO as "world
policeman" is unacceptable. It is certain that it operate under
control of the riches and the most powerful countries, USA at the
first place, which are leaded with their selfish interests. However,
potential action of UN was blocked by a veto of Russia and China,
which are leaded with their selfish interests too. A regime of
Yugoslavia systematically have been implemented terror on Kosovo and
rejected all proposals for compromise. During last ten years, before a
beginning of NATO strikes, about half of million of ethnic Albanians
remove from Kosovo. Confident that Russian support will block a war
action, Slobodan Milosevic, a butcher of the Balkans, started a big
action of "ethnic cleansing" in a time of negotiations in Rambouillet.
We feel condolence for actual suffer of the people in SR Yugoslavia
under air strikes, but we stress that a Serbian strongman, Slobodan
Milosevic, is a man who can stop attack if accepts proposals.
 
HAVING IN MIND ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, THE CROATIAN GREEN PARTY REGARD THE
FOLLOWING NEED TO BE REALISED:

1.1. A possibility need to be offer to SR Yugoslavia to announce and
beginning to retreat all kinds of military, police and paramilitary
forces from Kosovo. Retreat need to be realised inside a period of
five days.
 
1.2. After overlooking in reality of retreat, NATO will stop strikes.
After that, an armed forces under UN mandate need to enter Kosovo,
constituted by NATO members and other countries. Civilian observers,
servants and experts need to enter too. Their goal will be to build
basic circumstances for returning of all refugees and expelled and for
reconstruction and development of the region. At the same time,
political negotiations need to be continued.
 
2.1. In a case that FR Yugoslavia reject this kind of proposal, it is
needed to consider possibility to recognise Kosovo as an independent
state, which is proclaimed few years ago under a name The Republic of
Kosovo. KLA would be provisionally recognised as a legal armed force
of an sovereign ailed state, and supported by logistic and air forces
to take over a control under the territory of a new state.
 
2.2. After that, KLA must to retire into military barracks.
International military, police and civilian forces would be send to
Kosovo, to control peace and human rights situation, and to help in
reconstruction, restitution of a new government and other needs for
normal life and reconciliation. Those forces mandate need to be three
years at least.
 
3.1. In a case that any of two mentioned possibilities is realised,
international volunteers, organised by a peace movement and other
NGOs, could make an important contribution to the process of post-war
reconstruction, development and reconciliation. There are small, but
important experiences in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
 
3.2. Financial and other support is needed for Macedonia, Albania and
Montenegro, to amortise effects of a flow of the expelled people from
Kosovo. A program of their return need to be realise, gradually, in
keeping with a progress in reconstruction.
 
3.3. A strong support is needed for countries of the south-east Europe
in reparation of damages, reconstruction and development. PHARE
program could be used and strengthen, and other special programs need
to be developed - some kind of "new Marshall plan" -  for economy,
development of institutional structure, social "healing" and
reconciliation. FR Yugoslavia need to be included, if it start into a
track of democracy, human rights and tolerance.
 
4.1. It is needed to work energetically to put all responsible for war
crimes and abuses of international humanitarian laws on the
International court (tribunal) - without concerns to which nation and
ethnic group they belong and in which position they are, or were at
the time when crimes were committed. It is also needed to work on
development of permanent system of international protection of human
rights, based on independent courts, military/police and social
components.
 
4.2. The Green Party of Croatia support a work of the International
tribunal for War Crimes in ex-Yugoslavia in The Hague. It is an
important step toward a system of international human rights
protection. In spite of that, there are founded objections to it's
concrete proceedings - it is clear that political manipulations exist,
especially of only world super-power, USA.
 
4.3. Having in mind those objections, we strongly support founding of
the Permanent International Court for Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes
against humanity and Aggression, which was agreed in Rome last year.
We call all countries to ratify an agreements about it's founding and
to enable a beginning of it's work.
 
4.4. We also consider that an authority of The International Court of
Justice in The Hague need to be strengthened. Those two courts
appeared as parts of an international judiciary, which need to protect
international laws and to be independent, as much as possible, of
influences from governments and country representatives in UN bodies.
 
4.5. Blockades in decision-making, caused with a right of veto of
permanent members of the UN Security council, remind to paralysis of
the Legue of Nation in '30s. A reform is needed, oriented toward more
democracy and efficiency.
 
Zagreb, 28. April 1999.
 
For contact:
[email protected]
http://www.mesopust.com/zeleni

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