[CTRL] Congress' Plan to Prevent the Rebuilding of Yugoslavia's Power and Heating plants - S1234 and HR 2606

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

 -Caveat Lector-

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The Committee for National Solidarity
Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU
UPDATE ON DECLARING SERBIA A TERRORIST STATE
Conference on S1234 - which as passed would declare Yugoslavia a Terrorist
state (a foreign affairs appropriations bill) and its companion H 2606

Since my July 16th column on this bill, ("Yugoslavia: Give us your assets or
we kill your children -
http://www.originalsources.com/OS7-99MQC/7-16-1999.1.shtml) many of you have
written to your members of congress and spread the alarm to others.  As
passed by the Senate 97-2 (only Sen. Bob Smith and Sen. Robt. Byrd voting
"No") S1234 would make it impossible for Yugoslavia to restore electrical
power and heating to Yugoslavia following destruction of those plants by
NATO bombs.  The section which declared Yugoslavia a terrorist state was the
work of Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a Republican and Sen. Frank
Lautenberg of New Jersey, a Democrat.  Mitch McConnell is the chairman of
the Appropriations committee and Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, is Ranking
Member.  I talked to aides of Sen. McConnell, Sen. Leahy and Sen. Hatch of
Utah personally about my concern that this provision would kill thousands
this winter in Yugoslavia - especially children, the ill and the elderly -
if they are deprived of heat and electricity.  Sen. McConnell's aide seemed
genuinely concerned about that  possibility.  Sen. Leahy's aide also seemed
concerned, noting that the bills was the work of the Republicans (although
it wasn't - Sen. Lautenberg was co-sponsor of the provision on terrorism)
and Sen. Hatch's aide spoke strongly in favor of the provision saying"That's
what they deserve for choosing a man like Milosevic."

The final Senate bill had the terrorism provision in it.  At the present
time the bill has been through the Senate Conference committee and a
conference report written.  That committee is headed by Sen. McConnell.  The
Conference report (see http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/z?cp106:sr081:)
HAS RETAINED THE TERRORISM PROVISION UNDER GENERAL PROVISIONS - see Sections
525 - on declaring Yugoslavia a terrorist state, and Section 578 on
sanctions against Yugoslavia.  I first thought, after a discussion with Sen.
Hatch's aide, that this provision was removed by the Senate Conference
Committee.  It was not.  It had been moved to "General Provisions."  So, as
it stand coming from the Senate, the Bill is HR 2606 and it contains the
provision which will prohibit any assistence to Serbia, which now contains
the largest number of refugees in the area, well over a million, and which
has had its civilian electrical plants and power plants badly damaged by
American bombs.  As written, Section 525 prohibits not only the United
States from providing any aid, even to refugees in Serbia without Clinton's
specific approval, but requires the Secretary of State to use available
funding in other programs to try to prevent other nations from assisting
Yugoslavia to restore electricity and heat for the rapidly approaching
winter.  For example, the USA could threaten to cut off IMF aid to Russia if
it sells steel to Serbia to rebuild the bridges we destroyed.

This bill now goes to a House-Senate Conference. Section 537 provides:
SERBIA
The Committee intends that none of the funds provided under this heading, or
in this Act, may be made available for reconstruction or development
activities for the Republic of Serbia, outside of Kosova. The Committee
would support a substantial increase in democratization activities in Serbia
and Montenegro, excluding Kosovo, including increased assistance as
authorized under the Support for East European Democracy Act of 1989.

The Committee is recommending a new general provision, section 537, that
would prohibit funds from being made available for assistance for the
Republic of Serbia. Such assistance is not appropriate at the present time.

On September 14th the House selected its Committee. Send a letter of e-mail
to committee members, or better, call their offices to demand that, inasmuch
as NATO and the KLA have now driven nearly all the Serb, Gypsy, Goran,
Jewish, Turkish and Egyptian citizens of Kosovo out of the province, mostly
to Serbia (which now has more than a million refugees) this provision hurts
not only the Serbs, but approximately 4 million non-Serb citizens of
Yugoslavia and the entire Balkan region.  For example, Slovenia will not be
able to sell its steel to Serbia either
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To e-mail, phone or fax House members of the Confernce Committee and your
own members of Congress go to:
http://originalsources.com/PLobby/ContactCongress.shtml

House Conference members are: Sonny Callahan, (R-AL) John Porter (R-IL),
Frank Wolf (R-VA), Ron Packard (R-CZ) , Joseph Knollenberg (R-MI), Jack
Kingston (R-GA) , Jerry Lewis (R-CA), Roy Blunt (R-MO), C.W. Bill Young
(R-FL), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Nita Lowey (D-NY) Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL),
Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI) Martin Sabo (D-MN)and David Obey (D-WI)

Senate Conference members are:
Mitch McConnell  (R-KY), Arlan Specter (R-PA) Judd Gregg (R-NH), Richard
Shelby (R-AL), Robert Bennett (R-UT), Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO),
Christopher Bond (R-MO), Ted Stevens (R-AK), Patrick Leahy(D-VT) , Daniel
Inouye (R-HI), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Tom Harkin D-IA), Barbara Mikulski
(D-MD), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Robert Byrd (D-VA) conferees on the part of
the Senate

With the humanitarian disaster in East Timor and the ethnic cleansing of all
non-Albanians from Kosovo while NATO is the designated authority in the
province, designating SERBIA a terrorist state, but not Indonesia and not
Kosovo under UN-KLA control is the epitome of hypocrisy.  If thousands
contact the above members of Congress IMMEDIATELY, we can stop the nonsense.
E-mail this to everyone you know.  Please send me a copy of your e-mails so
I can track, and report, the effort being made.

Mary Mostert
Analyst
Original Sources - http://www.originalsources.com
E-Mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Secretary General
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
Art  historian
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