More from SM on Raubouillet scam:
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(Dr. Hatchett)
The immediate cause of the problems between our two countries, according to
President Clinton, is the failure of Yugoslavia to agree to the terms of the
negotiations in France, first at Rambouillet then later at Paris. Uh, why
was it that Yugoslavia did not sign that agreement?
(President Milosevic)
(Hmmph!) You use the term negotiated. There were no negotiations at all. And
your audience have to know that. In all those three long weeks, two in
Rambouillet and one in Paris, there was no one single meeting between
delegations to talk to each other. Albanians and Serbs and others in state
delegations couldn't exchange one single word, so there were not any
negotiations.
And look to delegations. On one side, you have delegation of Serbia composed
of everybody who was living in Kosovo and who lives in Kosovo.
Representatives of all national communities. Serbs, Albanians, three
Albanian parties were represented in Serbian delegation. They are citizens
of this country of course and that's so normal. Serbs, Albanians, Turks, and
Muslims, Gypsy, Egyptians, (unintelligible), All seven of different national
communities were represented in the delegation.
On the other side it was delegation of separation movement, not Albanian
delegation. Albanians are in a delegation of Serbia as well. Delegation of
separation movement purely Albanian and that's something which can explain
the major differences in our approach.
Our approach from the very beginning of talks was that Kosovo problem can be
solved on the basis of principle of equality for all citizens living in the
region and of all national communities living in the region. So our approach
is multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious insisting upon equality of
national communities that regardless to their number. On the other side,
that is approach of your state department in alliance with those guys from
separation movement which is favoring Albanians. Which is giving to them the
right to be the monsters of rest of population and you must know was the
structure of population is, in Kosovo.
There are Serbs in (unintelligible) Quarter million of them who are living
there and their grandfathers of their grandfathers uh live there before one
single Albanian came from the mountain. That is ancient Serbian territory
with thousands of Serbian monasteries and monuments and so on. But so a
quarter million of Serbs, 200,000 of Muslims, 150,000 of Egyptians, about
50,000 of Turks. Even Turks who are our smallest national community in
Kosovo they have their schools they have their radio and TV program. They
have their editing house Something in Turkish language.
So what is the problem if there are only 50,000 comparing with let us say 8
to 900,000 Albanians? In terms of equality, they must have same rights as
national community and they must participate in the institutions of Kosovo
in a equal footing on the basis of that, and that was crucial difference
between those two approaches.
And, uh practically what was tried to be imposed in Rambouillet was not
autonomy at all that was independence. And I really don't believe if you
show it to any honest American that there is one single honest American that
will tell you if they were in the place of our delegation would sign it. We
are talking on autonomy, we are talking on quality, on equal approach to
interest of all national community, not on independence of Albanian
separation movement which had by that agreement, so called agreement.
Practically the right to organize new state within Serbia. They have their
state, that is Albania that is their national state. In Serbia they are
national minority they are living everywhere in Serbia and I want to add to
you something very important. In Serbia there are 26 different national
minorities.
There was never any problem with any of national minorities in Serbia,
including Albanians, the problems were only with separation movement of
Albanians in Kosovo and we were making a big difference between separation
movement in Kosovo and Albanian people which is honest, and good ???
(Unintelligible) which was equal people in Yugoslavia.
Even the separation movement was not using the arms before you came. Before
your representative came to tell them, to supply them, and to make the
alliance with those killers, rapists, kidnappers and drug dealers who are
collected from the underground around Europe to be organized as so-called
Kosovo liberation army which never existed.
That was a kind of Hollywood you know uh, just to explain that they are
having some kind of military force and so on. They were never able to attack
any sort of police or military unit they were able to kill somebody only
from the ambush and they were clear terrorists. What else they could do they
were killing people from the ambush they were putting bombs under cars or in
front of markets they are taking hostages, civilians, workers from the open
mine near Pristina for example. We never saw those hostages. We're afraid
that all of them are killed. We don't know their destiny, where they were at
the end.
So there was no one single act of them which couldn't be clearly defined as
terrorist act.
And uh, I was real surprised that NATO downgraded its' dignity making
alliance with those killers and drug dealers and uh, I think that uh, that
kind of alliance cannot help the future.
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