[CTRL] Milosevic addresses 4th SPS Congress I

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

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Milosevic addresses 4th SPS Congress
February 18, 2000

Slobodan Milosevic

Belgrade, February 17th (Tanjug) - President of the Serbian Socialist Party
(SPS) Slobodan Milosevic's closing speech at the 4th SPS Congress (integral
version):

"Dear Delegates,


"Distinguished Guests,


"This year marks the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Socialist
Party of Serbia.


"Its establishment coincides with the beginning of a decade in which the
countries of Eastern Europe, a part of the countries of Central Europe and
Euro-Asian region, where the Soviet Union was until recently, generally
entered a major crisis. That crisis has been manifested as a civilizational
degradation of these societies and the break-up of all multi-national states
(Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia), and the emergence of several
hotbeds of crisis in two of these three countries (Russia and Yugoslavia).


"Throughout that decade that has been marked by the ongoing crisis, the
Socialist Party of Serbia from its very inception until today, did all it
could to preserve Serbia as a State. First of all, at the very beginning of
the 90's, within the former Yugoslavia, and then in the process of its
break-up, it sought to preserve it as a State community which (together with
Montenegro) was the initiator of the continuance of a third, smaller but
nevertheless feasible Yugoslavia.


"Those efforts of the Socialist Party of Serbia have produced results.
Serbia has avoided a fratricidal war that raged in other territories of the
former Yugoslavia (in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina). It managed to
preserve the unity of its territory and succeeded in having Yugoslavia
survive as a state, albeit in a smaller territory. In that territory, it is
not only the Yugoslav state that has been preserved but the Yugoslav idea as
well, which first started to bring together the South Slav peoples a century
ago, which was realized in the first half of the 20th century and that,
despite the dramatic conflicts among the peoples that comprise the former
Yugoslavia, perhaps not even today is at odds with the historical reasons
for which it was established at the time, and thanks to which it existed for
the whole century.


"The Socialist Party of Serbia rightfully considers that it is thanks to its
efforts that in these years of fighting for the survival of Serbia, despite
all outside pressures and all internal obstructions against it, it managed
to maintain its economic and social stability at a higher level than all
other countries of the region which avoided the break-up of the state, major
demographic disturbances, war and sanctions. Finally, the Socialist Party of
Serbia considers that it is mostly thanks to its efforts that Serbia has
extended huge material and moral assistance to Serbs who were caught up in
the civil war in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina with the peoples with
whom they lived together until then. Not seeking to dwell on the genesis of
these wars, which were fuelled from the outside and from the inside, the
Socialist Party of Serbia has rightfully, as the ruling party in Serbia for
most part in the past decade, directly and through the institutions of the
state in the Republic of Serbia, assisted the Serb people in the war and
later in peace once it was established. In the war, to make it easier and
shorter, in peace to make it more serene and more dignified. For their part,
both the Socialist Party of Serbia and Serbia itself, in that period did
their utmost. Whether those to whom the Socialist Party of Serbia and Serbia
gave all that managed to take advantage of it or appreciate it in
particular, is not the topic of this Congress, but it will be the topic of a
new Serb history and ethics, on whose principles that history will be
interpreted.


"If the Socialist Party of Serbia and Serbia did all they could for the
Serbs outside Serbia in war and peace-time in the territory of the former
Yugoslavia, for the Serbs, who at the very beginning of the winds of war and
throughout sought refuge in Serbia, the Socialist Party of Serbia and Serbia
did more than they could.


"That will be an outstanding topic for history and ethics. The Serbs who
arrive in Serbia in the first half of the 90's from the territories engulfed
by the war in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina were the only refugees in
the world that have been treated as equal citizens in the country in which
they found refuge - the citizens that have often been, as we all known full
well, more equal than the citizens of Serbia. They have embarked upon a new
life in Serbia with all advantages - employment, education and resolving
housing needs. They even took part in the social and political life of
Serbia. Every young person from those parts who found refuge in Serbia could
enter University, convinced that with the sincere support of the society,
teachers and fellow students he will be able to complete his studies
successfully. The doors of schools in Serbia were open fully to refugee
children. All those who came to Serbia were able to get jobs and social
protection enabling them to avoid living as common refugees. Very often, the
Serbs who came to Serbia from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina were given
jobs that able-bodied and qualified citizens of Serbia could be envious of,
but without any evil intentions. In addition, throughout Serbia for the
whole decade now, a great number of comfortable and modern apartments have
been built for refugees whereby for most part they are considered legitimate
residents of this country. That is the reason why only a small number of
them leave Serbia although a few years have elapsed since the end of the war
in the territories, which they left, and despite the fact that in the
territory of the former Bosnia and Herzegovina, a Serb state has been
established.


"I am listing these facts and presenting these assessments because no time,
including the present, will be spared subsequent falsifications which serve
someone's interests and daily events.


"We have no intention of renouncing any false move, but it should be noted
that we have no intention either of renouncing impressive good results that
this Party achieved for the Serb state, for all citizens living in it and
the Serb people on the whole.


"These positive results include, therefore, not only freedom and
independence but an impressive upward development trend achieved in the most
precarious conditions, from the beginning of 1994. Later on, the lifting of
the greatest part of the sanctions and reduction of obligations towards the
Serbs outside Serbia after end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, have
eased the burden that Serbia carried until then, so that in 1997 building
and creative activities were in the ascendant in general, while economic and
cultural ties were restored with all, even with the proponents of the
sanctions and all other pressures.


"Such a perspective of Serbia's recovery, and thereby of the new Yugoslavia,
did not fit into the picture of the fate assigned to this part of the world.
That picture envisaged a disintegrated society, degraded State, puppet
governments, disoriented people accepting the fact that the world is ruled
by a single government, readiness to serve that Government and even be happy
by doing so. Such reincarnation of feudal inferiority, humbleness and
backwardness could not pass in Serbia, not only because Serbia has a
historical habit of not being subservient but because in terms of
development and emancipation, it seems to have departed most, compared to
all other European States, from the feudal medieval way of thinking.


"The bill for such creative and emancipated response was delivered already a
year later. Urgently the repression of more than a million innocent
Albanians by Serbs chauvinists and terrorists was concocted. The genocide
against Albanians was invented as a pretext for genocide against the only
disobedient European people, a rarely emancipated European people at that.


"The Socialist Party of Serbia and the authorities in Serbia, comprising the
Socialist party of Serbia along with other parties of different political
but of the same patriotic orientation, did all they could so that relations
between Serbs and Albanians and all others in Kosovo be set up in line with
our experience - meaning, in a tolerant way - so that they live as they did
for centuries in the past - meaning, together and without subjugation from
any part.


"For no fault of our own, we have accepted to prove that we are not guilty.
We have accepted, for no reason, an outside mediation to go to the side
which has provoked the conflicts, to treat the representatives of that side
as well-meaning representatives of the international community, although we
as all others in the world, knew perfectly well, that these are the
representatives of an independent political will who usurped international
rules of the game, harboring ill-intentions towards all who are not
obediently lying at their feet, and are especially ill-intentioned toward
stubborn and disobedient Serbs. Had we, as many negotiations, from Belgrade
to Rambouillet in 1998 and 1999 respectively, accepted the proposals of the
so called international community regarding the relations between Serbs and
Albanians in Kosovo, it would have been the same as though in the end of the
30's and the beginning of the 40's the Jews in Germany had accepted to have
carried out genocide against the Germans in Germany.


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Secretary General
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
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