>There is information that Islamic extremists from Chechenya are sheltering
>in large numbers in Kosovo and Metohija where they enjoy the protection of
>KFOR and UNMIK.
>
>- Thriving crime in the Province: Another direct proof that KFOR and UNMIK
>have failed to discharge their mandates strictly, notably with respect to
>securing the international borders of the FR of Yugoslavia with Albania and
>Macedonia, is their patronizing attitude towards Albanian terrorists and
>separatists who enter the FR of Yugoslavia without hindrance, which is the
>main cause for the thriving crime and chaos in the Province.
>
>- As a result of an unprotected border, in flagrant violation of Security
>Council resolution 1244 (1999), KFOR and UNMIK have allowed illegal entry
>into the Province of several hundred thousand criminals and looters from
>Albania, aimed at spilling over the chaos from Albania into Kosovo and
>Metohija. Kosovo and Metohija have, thus, been turned into a stronghold of
>organized international crime, terrorism, narco mafia, illicit arms
>trafficking, white slavery, juvenile crime and prostitution rackets in
>Central and Western Europe, with a view to rampant crime and
>destabilization of Europe and preventing the ongoing integration processes.
>
>4. Civil registration and elections in Kosovo and Metohija
>
>- Against a background of continuing terror, final stages of the ethnic
>cleansing of Serbs and other non-Albanian population in the Province,
>absence of conditions for the return of over 350,000 expellees and a
>presence of a couple of hundred thousand illegal foreign citizens in Kosovo
>and Metohija, it is evident that there are not even the basic conditions
>for civil registration in the context of the preparations for the elections
>to be held in near future. Ignoring these facts and insistence by OSCE and
>UNMIK to proceed to civil registration in the circumstances described
>represent an attempt at the policy of fait accompli and at encouraging the
>further destabilization of the Province along the lines of achieving the
>separatist goals of Albanian extremists.
>
>The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia strongly rejects any attempt at
>calling for early elections in the Province until basic conditions are not
>met, i.e. consolidated peace and stability on the basis of Security Council
>resolution 1244 (1999) implying first of all a free and safe return of all
>expelled Serbs and other non-Albanian population, and until basic
>parameters for the political settlement in Kosovo and Metohija are agreed
>with the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia.
>
>5. Delaying the return of Yugoslav Army (VJ) and police (MUP)
>
>- In a situation in which KFOR and UNMIK do not carry out their mandate of
>guaranteeing full personal safety and safety of property for all the
>population and of providing conditions for a safe and unimpeded return of
>all displaced persons and refugees, undue delays in the implementation of
>the provisions of the Military Technical Agreement relating to the return
>of VJ and MUP (UNSCR 1244, op. para 4; Annex 2, subpara 6 and 10; MTA
>paragraph 4) additionally encourage Albanian terrorists to continue with
>their daily terrorization of Serbs and other non-Albanians with the aim at
>completing the ethnic cleansing of the Province.
>
>The Yugoslav Government insists that this obligation is fulfilled
>immediately and without any conditions.
>
>6. Responsibility of the United Nations Security Council
>
>The Security Council, as guarantor for its resolution 1244 (1999), is
>responsible for strict compliance with all provisions of the resolution and
>its related documents, primarily those reaffirming the sovereignty and
>territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia on all its territory, as well
>as for the respect of general standards in the implementation of UN
>peace-keeping operations, above all the universal principles of the United
>Nations Charter, International Covenants on human rights, etc. This
>responsibility includes the obligation of the Council to prevent any
>departing from, delaying of the implementation or arbitrary interpretation
>of the provisions of its resolution 1244 (1999) and its related documents.
>Only the Security Council has the authority to give a binding
>interpretation of the provisions of its resolutions. Continued gross
>violations of the provisions of the Resolution and its related documents by
>KFOR and UNMIK which brought about an alarming development of the situation
>in the Province, have not been responded to by adequate measures of the
>Security Council to put an end to such dangerous developments. This
>confirms that the Security Council has not fulfilled its obligations and
>therefore it is held directly accountable for the detrimental consequences
>caused by such conduct.
>
>Proceeding from the fact that it has fulfilled all its obligations under
>Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and its related documents, the
>Government of the FR of Yugoslavia insists that all other responsible
>factors, and primarily the Security Council as the most responsible organ,
>carry out immediately and unconditionally their share of responsibility
>
>
>III ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITUATION
>IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
>
>1. Overall performance of KFOR and UNMIK
>
>The results of the nine-month long international security (KFOR) and
>civilian (UNMIK) presence in the south Serbian Province are extremely weak.
>The utterly disturbing situation is characterized by wide-spread crime and
>terror, chaos and lawlessness, genocide and ethnic cleansing of Serbian and
>other non-Albanian population, destruction of their private property,
>looting and usurpation of the property of the State and of private firms,
>carried out by armed Albanian extremists, members of the terrorist
>so-called KLA in particular.
>
>- Multiethnic Kosovo and Metohija - hypocrisy of KFOR and UNMIK: In spite
>of verbal pledges of KFOR and UNMIK to preserve multiethnic character of
>the Province, the activities and behaviour of international presence in
>Kosovo and Metohija are quite opposite. The fact that over 350 thousand
>citizens of the Province, out of whom 270 thousand Serbs and Montenegrins,
>have been forcibly driven out of Kosovo and Metohija in the presence of
>international force and under its auspices and mandate, is totally alarming
>and disastrous for the reputation of the world Organization.
>
>- Ethnic cleansing of Serbs and Montenegrins in the largest part of the
>Province has been already accomplished. Now, the remaining isolated Serbian
>enclaves, above all Kosovska Mitrovica as the largest one, have become the
>target of Albanian terrorists and of sensless moves of KFOR and UNMIK which
>add more fuel to the flames.
>
>The insisting of KFOR and UNMIK on the establishment of multiethnic
>communities in the remaining Serbian enclaves in particular is both
>unconvincing and cynical, since at the same time no one is even mentioning
>for example Pristina in which about 40 thousand Serbs and Montenegrins used
>to live before the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK, and now less than two or
>three hundred of them remain. There is not a word about the situation in
>Prizren, Pe?, Orahovac, Djakovica, Glogovac and many other towns, villages
>and areas in Kosovo and Metohija, like Kosovo Pomoravlje, which are also
>completely ethnically cleansed of Serbs and Montenegrins, while the issue
>of their return to their homes is not even the subject of at least formal
>rhetoric of responsible KFOR and UNMIK representatives.
>
>The action of searching the houses of Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica brutally
>carried out by the members of American and German contingent of KFOR, which
>coincided with unhampered arrival of thousands of Albanian extremists led
>by terrorists of the so-called KLA to Kosovska Mitrovica in order to
>threaten and frighten the remaining Serbs irrefutably testifies to the
>cooperation and collusion of KFOR and UNMIK with Albanian terrorists, as
>well as of their active engagement in the concept of changing borders in
>the Balkans to create the so-called Greater Albania. At the same time, this
>is the latest confirmation of the proven policy of demonizing Serbs in
>order to justify the real goals -the ending of the campaign of ethnic
>cleansing of Serbs in the Province, and to conceal the facts that the
>members of the so-called KLA have been neither demilitarized nor disarmed.
>This is the main reason why, the OSCE condemned in its report of 21
>February the house searching operations pointing out that KFOR has violated
>thereby the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
>Rights and establishing that the action was illegal which was also brought
>to the attention of the head of UNMIK, Bernard Kouchner.
>
>- Non-compliance and gross violations of the basic provisions of Security
>Council resolution 1244 (1999) and its related documents by KFOR and UNMIK,
>has resulted directly in the dramatic security and general situation in the
>Province, above all in the continuation of Albanian terrorism, violence and
>ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other non-Albanian population and wide scale
>crime and lawlessness in the Province. Thus KFOR and UNMIK have become
>accomplices in the most serious crimes committed against Serbs and other
>non-Albanian population and they are responsible mostly for the
>non-existence of elementary security of Serbs and non-Albanian population
>in the Province.
>
>The tested tactics of deluding the world public and of diverting the
>attention from the complete fiasco of international mission under the
>auspices of the United Nations is being applied in Kosovo and Metohija.
>After practically completed ethnic cleansing and destruction of everything
>that is related to Serbs and non-Albanians, any attempt to look for the
>guilty ones among few Serbs who remained is not only a cynicism but also a
>proof of direct protection of terrorists and separatists, of organized
>international crime and of the continuation of a new form of aggression
>against the FR of Yugoslavia which characterizes the alliance between NATO
>and terrorist so-called KLA. Such activity is obviously aimed at spreading
>the destabilization over the entire region of southeastern Europe. In this
>way Kosovo and Metohija is being transformed into a centre of prolonged
>destabilization of Europe, and the entire region into a centre for the
>concentration and spreading of international terrorism which deeply
>penetrated into the tissue of Europe and through Kosovo and Metohija should
>be spread and jeopardize the process of integration.
>
>The continuous deterioration of the overall situation in the Province is
>in line with the efforts to provoke artificially the prolonged
>destabilization in the region which should justify the existence of NATO
>and to rehabilitate its prestige and credibility which have been seriously
>brought into question by its illegal aggression against the FR of
>Yugoslavia.
>
>Therefore, the statements of KFOR and UNMIK representatives of alleged
>success of the international mission in the Province are unacceptable and
>completely biased, since it is clear that they are not founded on real
>situation on the ground and consequently this can lead to the conclusion
>that they are based on the assessment of some other goals which are
>different from those set up in Security Council resolution 1244 and its
>related documents. The statements that the number of crimes has been
>reduced in absolute terms are unacceptable because this is the result only
>of a continuous reduction of the number of Serbs and other non-Albanian
>population who are the victims of Albanian terrorists.
>
>- Cooperation of KFOR and UNMIK with separatists and terrorists in
>jeopardizing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a sovereign
>Member State of the United Nations, in systematic violation of the Charter
>of the United Nations, international law, Security Council resolution 1244
>and Military Technical Agreement, incites not only the security and legal
>chaos in the Province but dangerously undermines the security foundations
>in the entire region. Such behaviour of international forces under the
>auspices of the Untied Nations is without a precedent in the history of
>United Nations peace-keeping missions, whereby the reputation and authority
>of the United Nations are seriously brought into question.
>
>- Strict implementation of the Resolution and its related documents is
>the main precondition for the normalization of the overall situation in the
>Province and the obligations of all to unconditionally observe that.
>2. An imperative to normalize the situation in Kosovo and Metohija
>
>All parameters unambiguously confirm that the developments in the Province
>are moving towards the further worsening of the overall situation which
>will become even more complex and dangerous with possible far-reaching
>adverse consequences on the entire region. By the gross violation of the
>provisions of the Resolution and by their overall conduct, KFOR and UNMIK
>have unambiguously confirmed that the presence of international forces
>under the auspices of the United Nations in Kosovo and Metohija is a
>complete fiasco. The United Nations Security Council bear primary
>responsibility for this since it failed to undertake necessary and
>energetic measures it was bound to under the Resolution, and to ensure a
>strict implementation of the provisions of the Resolution and its related
>documents.
>
>Therefore, it is necessary to put an end as soon as possible to this
>shameless mission of the so-called international community in Kosovo and
>Metohija since it is obvious that it could not or did not want to implement
>the mandate entrusted upon it by Security Council resolution 1244 (1999),
>and to let the competent authorities of the FR of Yugoslavia and Republic
>of Serbia to restore in the Province: order and peace, rule of law and
>legality; personal protection and the protection of the property of all its
>citizens irrespective of their ethnic origin or religion, as well as to
>ensure normal functioning of all commercial entities and local authorities
>and normalization of entire life in the Province, as a necessary
>prerequisite for launching political dialogue between the representatives
>of the State and ethnic communities in Kosovo and Metohija about the
>parameters of autonomy and self-governance in the Province.
>
>IV DEMANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA
>
>Proceeding from its sovereign rights, guaranteed by Security Council
>resolution 1244 (1999), Ahtisaari-Chernomyrdin document and Military
>Technical Agreement, the Government of the FR of Yugoslavia reiterates its
>demand:
>
>- that the Security Council undertake urgently energetic measures to
>ensure strict respect of all provisions of the Resolution and its relevant
>documents, above all those which confirm sovereignty and territorial
>integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia on its entire territory;
>
>In this context, the Yugoslav Government insists in particular :
>
>- that UNMIK and KFOR unconditionally and without delay respect and
>implement the mandate set up in the Resolution and its relevant documents;
>
>- that sovereignty and territorial integrity of the FR of Yugoslavia and
>the Republic of Serbia be strictly respected in Kosovo and Metohija and in
>this context full normalization of functioning of customs, border regime,
>public services (PTT, power supply system, railway, banking system) be
>ensured in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Serbia and the FR of
>Yugoslavia and principles of market-oriented economy in view of restoring
>the ties of the Province with the Republic of Serbia and the FR of
>Yugoslavia which have been artificially broken and of guaranteeing the
>unconditional return of Yugoslav border authorities, customs and passport
>control to the State border of the FR of Yugoslavia with Albania and
>Macedonia;
>
>- that all regulations and other decisions of UNMIK and KFOR which violate
>territorial integrity and sovereignty of the FR of Yugoslavia and the
>Republic of Serbia be revoked, that the respect for the laws in force of
>the FR of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia be ensured on their entire
>territory;
>
>- that all illegally seized State, public, socially-owned and private
>property primarily PTT, power supply system, railway, banks, mines,
>factories, firms, be returned to legal owners.
>
>- that immediately a safe environment for all citizens and their full
>personal safety and safety of their property be ensured;
>
>- that energetic measures be taken to end terrorization, intimidation and
>ill-treatment of the population belonging to the Serbian, Roma, Muslim,
>Goranci, Turk and other non-Albanian ethnic communities, as well as a halt
>to the use of force resulting in the violation of their fundamental human
>rights and an immediate end to the ethnic cleansing of the Province of its
>non-Albanians;
>
>- that a free and safe return to the Province be ensured to more than
>350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Goranci, Turks, Egyptians and other
>inhabitants expelled in a campaign of ethnic cleansing after UNMIK and KFOR
>came to the Province;
>
>- that immediately several hundred thousand citizens of Albania who have
>illegally entered the Province be expelled;
>
>- that the combat structures of the terrorist so-called KLA be disbanded
>and all its members disarmed as well as other Albanian armed gangs, that
>all their weapons be destroyed, which is the main reason for the lack of
>security in the Province and for overall thriving crime, and in particular
>to declare null an void the document on the "transformation" of the
>so-called KLA;
>
>- that, without delay, an unhampered return of the mebers of VJ and MUP to
>Kosovo and Metohija be allowed, in compliance with the MTA, in the interest
>of normalizing security and preventing further massive expulsions of the
>remaining Serbs and other non-Albanian population from the Province;
>
>- that full freedom of movement on the entire territory of the Province be
>ensured and that all existing ghettos, detention camps, blockading of towns
>and villages, such as Kosovska Mitrovica, Orahovac, Gnjilane and others,
>where the remaining Serbs now live, be removed;
>
>- that an unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance be enabled;
>
>- that normal functioning of education, respect for the autonomy of
>university and other educational and cultural institutions and the media,
>especially those in Serbian language and wherever Serbs are predominant
>(Kosovska Mitrovica, etc.) be ensured;
>
>- that full and permanent protection of remaining cultural and historic
>monuments, medieval monasteries, churches and cemeteries be ensured; that
>without delay, the leaders of the so-called KLA, H. Thaqi and A. Cheku in
>the first place, as well as all other instigators of serious crimes,
>genocide, ethnic cleansing and terrorist acts against the non-Albanian
>population, their property and State and public property, and against
>cultural and historic sites, educational, health, commercial and other
>institutions and facilities, be held accountable and punished in an
>exemplary fashion;
>
>
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