Has anyone on PEN actually read the Rambouilet Agreement? It is
astounding, not just the parts that Peter Schwartz mentions but
the whole document. It is not a peace agreement at all. It is an
agreement that allows NATO through an Implementation Misson to
redesign the country according to its own dictates. While many of
the features of the government are laudable enough the real
source of power to determine what happens lies neither with the
Serbs nor the Albanians but with NATO. If the parties do not
co-operate they are shit out of luck since by signing they agree
to a whole bundle of crap over which they have no
control.
There is a section that deals with Max's issue of chasing
over borders. When there is a hot pursuit over borders the
culprit is to be delivered to the authorities who are pursuing.
If someone were pursued from Kosovo into Serbia and were caught
then they would go back to Kosovo for trial. If Serb police did
not co-operate NATO occupying authorities would force them to do
so. I put no quotation mark around
"occupying" authorities. Even if both parties agreed to this
peace deal it would only be through coercion.
No party in their right mind would agree to this except for
opportunistic reasons as the KLA did.
The sections for Max to peruse are: Article V 2 a i-iv.
The treaty is not a peace treaty. It demands among other
things that the economy operate in
a specified manner. The parties agree not to engage in the sin of
socialism unless perhaps some
sort of free market socialism.
Under the Economy Article 1 1) says and I quote:
The economy of Kosovo shall function in accordance with
free market principles.
This is a f***ing peace treaty? The CIM, the chief of the
implementation mission, has all sorts of powers and the parties
agree to co-operate with him or her.. If you don't your outa
there. There is no
appeal. The IM supervises everything and if things are not going
according to the IM's interpretation of the
treaty---and the parties agree that the IM is the final
interpreter- the IM can change them so they do go
as they "ought". There are even provisions that make it certain
that no local police could ever in their wildest dreams think of
challenging KFOR weapons. Talk about gun control! There are
strict stipulations about what sort of weapons local police can
have that are astounding to me.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
