Aggression against Yugoslavia
Statement by the Central Committee Secretariat of the Communist
Party of Australia. February 23rd, 1999
Negotiations between the powers over the conflict in Kosovo are
taking place as the "The Guardian" goes to press, the threat of
NATO aggression remains and the bombing by NATO of the sovereign
country of Yugoslavia could commence at any time.
The hate campaign against the Serbs and the Yugoslav leader,
Slobodan Milosevic, continues unabated in the media, obscuring
the fact that Yugoslavia is a sovereign country and Kosovo is a
recognised part of its territory.
Any attack on Yugoslavia would be aggression pure and simple.
NATO threatens the military occupation of Kosovo by NATO forces
and perhaps even the remaining territory of Yugoslavia.
This would be the first time that NATO forces have occupied a
sovereign country against that country's will and is a dangerous
escalation of NATO's policy of threat and blackmail using its
predominant military force.
Yugoslavia was last occupied by Nazi military forces during World
War II and sparked an heroic war of resistance by the Yugoslav
people.
The present threat of NATO action has not been discussed by the
United Nations Security Council. The UN is being completely
ignored by the leading NATO powers.
It is a violation of the United Nations Charter which says: "All
members shall refrain in the international relations from the
threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or
political independence of any State ..."
Other reluctant European powers are being pressured by today's
warmongers led by Clinton's US and Tony Blair's British
Governments.
If war should break out it could well spread to other Balkan
countries starting a widespread conflagration whose end cannot be
foreseen. Any attack on Yugoslavia has already been condemned by
the Russian Government which has repeatedly called for the
continuation of negotiations.
The British and US aggression is aimed to completely dismantle
and occupy Yugoslavia and is the next step towards the
subjugation of the whole of the Balkans.
It also has the purpose of clearing the way for eventual
intervention in the Republics of the former Soviet Union.
We call on the Australian Government to oppose this intended
Šaggression against a sovereign power and to insist that the issue
be referred to the United Nations.
The conflict in Kosovo is an internal matter for the Yugoslav
Republic and must be settled by negotiations and not by outside
military intervention.
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