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NEW TENDENCIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:
WAY FROM THE WAR AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA TO THE POLICY OF
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
REPORT OF PRESIDENT OF THE HUNGARIAN WORKERS' PARTY
GYULA TH�RMER
Ladies and Gentlemen, friends, comrades,
We gather here, in Budapest in a sombre time. A time when we are still
shocked and revolted by the barbaric terrorist attacks on the United
States. A time when, for people all over the world, the sense of
safety and security was ripped away. A time when we witness a new
imperialist policy aimed to control our planet and humanity.
NATO Secretary General Robertson said: "The events of September 11
have changed the world." I don't agree. It is not true. It was the
capitalist world, the capitalism to have been changed. It was the
capitalism that has led to a great degree to the tragic events of
September.
I would like to confirm our political position clearly: the Hungarian
Workers' Party reaffirms its condemnation of any form of terrorism. We
support the implementing of all relevant resolutions of the United
Nations General Assembly and the Security Council. At the same time we
declare: terror must not be the answer to terror.
Terrorism is not a political party, not even a state. Terrorism a
philosophy, a method. It can be used by the most different political
forces. Yes, terrorist organisations have changed the character of
their activity. Yes; their destructive power has been enormous. But,
why? What is the real reason?
Terrorism has its roots in the world's global problems. Before, at
those times when terrorism was useful for the capitalist big powers in
their fight against socialism, they supported it, financially,
militarily, politically. But now it is beyond their control and has
turned against them.
The aim of the current US-British military operations is not to arrest
Bin Laden and members of his terrorist organisation. The obvious
priority is a demonstration of force by the USA.
Worldwide US offensive
The NATO war against Yugoslavia was the experimental laboratory for
the large scale capitalist offensive we are witnessing now. The NATO
aggression in 1999 had its clear aims:
To finish the process of capitalist changes in Eastern Europe, to
avoid all possibilities to return to socialism.
To weaken Russia, undermining its international influence.
To strengthen US influence in Europe in a situation when the
European common currency just introduced before seemed to overcome US
dollar.
To elaborate new methods of political, moral, media, and military
war.
Important conclusions were made after the war. Some of these lessons
made the US and NATO to revise basic elements of their policy before
beginning a large-scale new offensive.
It has become quit evident that even the sophisticated US weapons
do mistakes. Remember the bombardments of the Chinese Embassy in
Belgrade or the so-called undesired attacks against civil persons.
It became clear that there is a gap between military capacities of the
US and their European allies. Just after Yugoslavian war Europe has
begun its new military doctrine and the EU began its tragic way to
turn into an organisation with strong military and security aspect.
Western countries could exclude Russia from Balkan regulation, but
Russia was not weakened. On the contrary during the presidency of
Putin the situation in Russia has been consolidated. Russia finds
newly its voice of super power.
The result of media war astonished deeply Western leaders. It was
very difficult to mobilise public opinion for war-participation. The
public opinion of such countries like Spain, Greece, Portugal, partly
Italy turned against war. Later, especially after Kosovo's occupation
many of the pro-war intellectuals expressed their doubts concerning
imperialist ideological explanations. Nato Secretary General already
in October 1999 warned NATO states to strengthen media work against
NATO-sceptic elements. The concept of so-called human rights, ethnic
cleaning have failed forever and nobody uses them today.
The Balkan peace settlement has turned to into a farce. There is no
stability on the Balkan. In Yugoslavia situation continues to be
serious.
Capitalist forces coming to power last October would like to finish
capitalist political and social changes in all fields of life. The
economic situation in Yugoslavia is catastrophic. New government
cannot solve these problems.
The arrest of Milosevic and his extradition to Hague has broken one of
the pillars of government coalition. Left forces are in deep crisis.
Kosovo is under NATO occupation. The US wants to create a sovereign
Kosovo although they deny it officially. In Macedonia US supports
Alban ethnic forces. The NATO and US will remain for a long time in
this region.
"The events of September 11th have changed many things. They have
reinforced the logic of keeping the peace in the Balkans - because
building stable, multi-ethnic states are our best insurance against
terrorism emerging in the first place."- NATO leaders declared.
The neighbours of Yugoslavia are unsatisfied with the results of the
peace settlement. They expected much more money for their political
and military assistance. Some of them have territorial claims, though
usually non-declared officially. The question of borders is not
closed. Many of these nationalistic forces hope to realise their
dreams about Great Albania, Great Hungary, sovereign Vojvodina and
sovereign Montenegro using this uncertain situation.
One of the aims of the war against Belgrade was to create a strong
corridor against Islamic forces which are playing more and more
important role in the world. It was not enough. The situation in the
Middle East has been worse as result of open Israeli aggression. The
Israeli government tries to overcome its internal crises by escalation
of conflict. The Middle East crisis serves American interests, too.
Bush: new conservative world
The Bush government has greatly changed the US policy and has
influenced very deeply the whole international situation.
First, US leaders are aware of weakening possibilities of USA in
modern world. They have decided to strengthen American hegemony in
world.
Second, US leaders are clearly aware of economic crisis in USA. They
expect from a global political and military offensive a new up come in
economy.
Third, US want to strengthen its leading position in military field.
Fourth, US want to diminish the role of Russia, and in long
perspective change it to a fully capitalist country.
Fifth, US want to stop in foreseeable perspective socialist
development of China and to finish historical revenge of capitalism.
Sixth, US want to create a new conservative world order with clear
American dominancy.
Seventh, The new policy has its clear internal aspects, too. US and
some other Western political forces came to the conclusion that new
challenges, like antiglobalisation movements, strengthening of non
Christian religions etc cannot be handled by classical methods of
bourgeois democracy, parlamentarism etc. There are attempts to
restrict the constitutional freedoms of citizens and persecute
so-called "anti-American" attitudes. Lets remember that US President
now has got the right to decide alone about war and peace, to decide
who is good and who is bad. We witness change to the presidential
ruling in Great Britain, in Italy, and even in Hungary. We see
dangerous movement to fascism.
We should carefully study what these all changes mean for contemporary
capitalism generally. Can we speak about general tendencies, including
fascism?
US leaders are clearly aware of economic crisis in USA. They expect
from a global military and political offensive a new and even long
lasting up rise in economy that has risen only by 2,5% for the first
half of 2001. We can see the first concrete steps. Military industry,
air transport has got such amounts of money they had not even dreamed
about. Under normal circumstances it would have been impossible.
Beside economic aims they want to strengthen their leading position in
military field. New military building up will take place. The new
military program can probably include space armaments, antimissile
defence systems. At the same time military building up will be spread
on traditional armaments, new types of aeroplanes, tanks, and weapon
systems.
The USA is going on with enlargement of NATO. They try to overcome the
opposition of some their allies in EU, and Russia. The Prague summit
can decide to invite to NATO Slovakia, Slovenia. The Baltic States
mean a great question. Experts do not exclude that the Prague summit
will not take final decisions.
The most aggressive forces in NATO now can explain their aim to give a
new role to NATO in world affairs. Remember what Robertson said
recently:
"There is a deep awareness that this is going to be a long
struggle, a struggle in which patience and persistence will be key.
Those who expected US unilateralism have witnessed instead a
masterpiece of multilaterally - rallying the world behind a common
purpose in a way only the US can. This has been coalition building at
its very best. NATO will of course be one of the key pillars of that
coalition"
Or lets take an other fresh literary masterpiece of NATO Secretary
General: "Europe's Security and Defence Identity is still in its early
stages. And the structures and functions of the UN and OSCE are
different and certainly do not mirror the unique composition,
strength, cohesion and speed of delivery of NATO".
Enlargement itself can lose some of its importance. Now it is more
important to give new functions to NATO. It is a permanent coalition,
a unique network with 19 nations and with further 27 in a partnership
relationship.
The 46 nations Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council is getting also new
aspects. It must enable NATO "to mobilise a coalition for the long
haul, tying in countries from Vancouver to Bishkek to make a
difference on real issues such as effective border control in Central
Asia."
EU: own concerns and interests
The EU-countries have their own concerns and interests. The economy of
the EU has braked. Temps of development have been diminished in most
of EU countries. Last year the production of GDP in EU has risen by
3,4%, this year only by 2,6%. The course of euro to dollars has been
falling and only during the last weeks there are some rises. The
EU-countries cut down almost all achievements of welfare state.
Internal political and social tension is increasing.
Germany has a special role. German economy develops slower than other
EU-states. This year GDP production rose by 2,6%.
The German Red-Green government for the first time after WW II decided
to send German soldiers into military action. They are aggravating the
political, social and ecological problems by socially unjust reforms
of the pension and tax systems, by an austerity policy detrimental to
future economic development. They cannot achieve real progress in
overcoming unemployment, whereby they disappointed many voters.
Further integration of East Germany is also a big question.
The conservative forces in Europe hope to return to power after many
years of social democratic government. Their strategic aim is to
establish a new conservative order in Europe. The most pillars of this
new conservative order would be strict commitment to conservative
values, final historical liquidation of all socialist and communist
experiments, full recognition of US strategic concepts.
After the collapse of Soviet Union the conflicts between the USA and
European allies became sharper. US try to share military burdens with
the Europeans. They insist on building up a sovereign European
military force but they want to save control first of all through
NATO.
The EU-enlargement leads to new serious conflicts. The Nice Treaty of
last year clearly demonstrated that large EU states want fully control
the Union. There is serious discussion among the leading countries
about the future of European institutions.
Ireland is the only of the 15 EU member states voting on the Nice
Treaty, which legally can only enter into force if ratified by all.
46.13 per cents were in favour of the Nice Treaty and 53.87 per cent
were against. This is the first time that an EU treaty has been
defeated by a referendum in Ireland.
The negative result of Danish referendum about Euro, the negative
attitude of Irish people expressed during the Irish referendum about
Nice treaty, the rising pro-referendum behaviour in Austria show
clearly that important socials forces have increased their activity.
The EU has been supported the new US policy from the very beginning.
First, the leading European states have realised their common class
interests. They are interested in common fight against threatening
anti-globalisation forces, rebirth of communist forces, for stopping
Chinese offensive.
Secondly, they also realised, that US could play its role without
them. The EU capital does not want to lose the chance to share with US
the economic and political privileges of capitalist militarisation.
Third, they see that the European economies also need serious
additional forces. War and concentration of power can be one of them.
Fourth, the EU political leaders are threatened by the
antiglobalisation fight. It has become cleat that existing
political institutions cannot solve this problem.
Russia: strategic ally or strategic enemy?
US continue considering Russia as one the strategic adversaries, one
of the main obstacles on the way to US World Empire. Western
capitalist forces have not given up their plan to create in Russia
social-political system identical with that in Western countries. They
understand that it can be realised only in the far future.
US would like to press Russia to accept their antimissile defence
plans and other one sided political steps in the world. Russia wants
to make US to recognise its strategic interests in the Baltic States
and Central Asia.
The EU is interested in a larger - than the US - degree of economic
ties with Russia. Europe cannot give up energy import from this
country, but they fight against the new offensive of Russian companies
on Eastern European markets and the natural desire of Russian firms to
get leading position in Eastern Europe and on the Balkan by buying up
local industrial companies
Russia tries to use the conflicts between USA and EU. They have
recently signed French-Russian declaration on strategic issues.
The EU does not want to cooperate with Russia against the USA, but
they are interested in saving strategic balance.
Russia and China have recently signed treaty of friendship and
strategic cooperation. Formally it contains nothing against US but on
practical terms it means serious political, economic and even military
step against US policy.
China is developing its bilateral relation with formal socialist
countries in Europe. The demonstrative state visit of Chinese
President to Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldavia was more than a symbolic
opening to these important countries.
NATO leaders and US understand that Russia does not want to accept
neither the new role of NATO nor its enlargement. They think that in
Russian eyes, Article 5 has been the quintessential demonstration of
NATO's Cold War orientation. Now NATO found a new explanation of
Article 5 in an entirely different context, one to which Russia can
relate. They hope to use the real interest of Russian to stop Islamic
forces in places like Central Asia.
China: principal challenge of the 21 century
China has achieved serious successes in economic and social
development.
Chinese economy is rising every year, people began to live better.
China is right to declare that it is due to the development of
socialism. China played important role in peace efforts on Balkan.
Beijing has got the right to organise Olympic games that clearly
expresses its increasing international respect and influence.
Western leaders try to explain Chinese successes by the fact that
China uses many capitalist methods in economic and even social policy.
Western politicians say that it is nothing more than economic and
social reform that have opened the way before capitalist development
in China, too. It is fare from the truth.
The strategy of Western countries is simple. They try to involve China
in international cooperation by inviting to WTO and other forms of
economic cooperation, and to contribute to the strengthening of
private sector in China.
They use military and diplomatic methods to influence Chinese
leadership make them to understand that only a pro Western political
elite devoted to Western political values and standards can get the
sympathy of West.
During the Bush-administration US-Chinese relationship has become more
tensioned. The incident with American intelligence airplane this
spring was the first serious political affair for a long period.
US-administration has made even some gestures. It did not oppose
publicly the Beijing Olympic Games and said no on Taiwan idea to
create common US-Japanese-Taiwan antimissile defence.
But it is only the surface. The Bush-administration wants to speed up
capitalist changes in China. They try to use internal forces in China,
too. US policy does not want a final worsening of strategic
relationships with China. US are interested in economic ties, and
China is an important actor also in some Pacific and Asian issues.
What to do?
I am convinced: the fight against capitalist globalization is central
to the class struggle today. It touches and affects virtually every
economic, social and political struggle of our parties.
Fidel Castro said the following phrases in Durban on September the 1:
"The capitalist, developed and wealthy countries today participate of
the imperialist system born of capitalism itself and the economic
order imposed to the world based on the philosophy of selfishness and
the brutal competition between men, nations and groups of nations
which in completely indifferent to any feelings of solidarity and
honest international cooperation. They live under the misleading,
irresponsible and hallucinating atmosphere of consumer societies. I
wonder: Will they be able to understand the grave problems of today's
world which in its incoherent and uneven development is ruled by blind
laws, by the huge power and the interests of the ever growing and
increasingly uncontrollable and independent transnational
corporations?
Will they come to understand the impending universal chaos and
rebellion? And, even if they wanted to, could they put an end to
racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and other related issues,
which are precisely the rest of them all?
>From my viewpoint we are on the verge of a huge economic, social and
political global crisis. Let's try to build an awareness about these
realities and the alternatives will come up. History has shown that it
is only from deep crisis that great solutions have emerged. The
peoples' right to life and justice will definitely impose itself under
a thousand different shapes"
Left forces should play definitively more active role in fight against
war, terrorism, for democratic international relations.
We have now better conditions for it than 5-10 years ago. We see some
consolidation in left movement. Left and other progressive forces have
archived serious results in recent period, although there has not been
a dramatic positive change, yet.
The antiglobalisation movement has become a very serious factor. All
of us remember the streets of Seattle, Genoa, Salzburg. Goteborg. And
most of us know what role communists are playing in this movement. We
think we should help to spread the antiglobalisation movement on
Eastern Europe, too.
Antiwar movement plays a very sensitive role on Greece, Italy and in
many other countries, which are important for our parties.
Now we have better conditions to cooperate on the terrorism-war issue
than during the war against Yugoslavia. Many of us remember the
dramatic summit meeting of European communist leaders on Cyprus. No
real result, positions were to far from each other. The European
communist left could not stop the war. Now, the situation is
different. Our positions are very near to each other.
The Hungarian Workers' Party support all efforts to strengthen our
cooperation. The Hungarian Workers' Party proposes to organise
International Summit of Left Forces on War.
Our position is clear. We deny terrorism and do not consider it a
possible form of fight against capitalism. What we left forces want is
safe, peaceful, and democratic world. The road to it is not the
violence. The only possible way to achieve such a world is the
exclusion of violence from the international relations, the peaceful,
by political means, handling of conflicts.
The road to it: establish a society based on social justice.
At the same time we declare: terror must not be the answer on terror.
The recent military action of the US is not a classical war: it is a
sort of mean terrorism raised on the level of state politics.
New weapons systems do not bring security. We should continue
fighting against military programs.
NATO is totally unsuitable for combating terrorism. It arose from
confrontation and its self-image is unchanged. Its new alliance
strategy does not solve any security problems. On the contrary, it
creates new ones. We should not give up our fight against NATO.
We think it is the United Nations who should get its decisive role in
international questions. All measures have to be carried out through
the united efforts of the international community with the United
Nations at the centre and under the control of the UN. For the
elimination of international terrorism, it is vital to create, through
isolation of terrorists by the whole international community, a
situation in which there is no place in the world for the terrorists
to hide. There is no other organization but the United Nations that
can play a central role and has the authority to carry it out.
The international community should enter into a dialogue of cultures;
lead a non-military struggle against poverty, misery and injustice in
the world to remove the hotbeds of terrorism.
We should demand to spend much more money on development aid. We
should demand to spend money not on military adventures in Kosovo and
other places but on help to Afghan refugees and to the Palestinian
Authority as assistance to the suffering civil population. We demand
to finance these operations by a special tax on the assets of the
multi-millionaires.
We should fight for democracy, against the policy of leading
capitalist powers. They misuse the people's fear of war. They use the
wartime psychosis to draw away popular attention from the hardships in
the economy and the society. At the same time, the mass media boycott
the different public statements of left and other antiwar forces
opposing this war. We should fight against violation of freedom of
press and the democratic basic rights of the citizens. We should fight
against right extremism and fascism.
We have our national task, too. We, the Hungarian Workers' Party
condemns the decision of the Hungarian government and the Hungarian
Parliament to support the militarist policy of the US. Hungary has no
kind of military interests, neither on the Balkans, nor in
Afghanistan. What is in the interests of the Hungarian people is not
war, but peace.
The Hungarian Workers' Party demands that Hungary should diminish its
activity in the NATO to the minimum. We oppose that nuclear weapons
and other weapons of mass destruction be deployed on Hungarian soil.
American and all other foreign troops must be withdrawn from Hungary.
No Hungarian soldier must wage a war outside Hungary! Hungarian troops
must be recalled from abroad.
Dear friends,
People fear of war, terror attacks. People think they cannot do
anything against war. We should demonstrate people, young and old,
that they are not alone. We can and should fight against war, and we
will do it. I am optimist.
I am convinced that the international left movement is the political
force which can and will give people the safety of future generations
in an uncertain future.
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WAY FROM THE WAR AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA TO THE POLICY OF
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
REPORT OF PRESIDENT OF THE HUNGARIAN WORKERS' PARTY
GYULA TH�RMER
Ladies and Gentlemen, friends, comrades,
We gather here, in Budapest in a sombre time. A time when we are still
shocked and revolted by the barbaric terrorist attacks on the United
States. A time when, for people all over the world, the sense of
safety and security was ripped away. A time when we witness a new
imperialist policy aimed to control our planet and humanity.
NATO Secretary General Robertson said: "The events of September 11
have changed the world." I don't agree. It is not true. It was the
capitalist world, the capitalism to have been changed. It was the
capitalism that has led to a great degree to the tragic events of
September.
I would like to confirm our political position clearly: the Hungarian
Workers' Party reaffirms its condemnation of any form of terrorism. We
support the implementing of all relevant resolutions of the United
Nations General Assembly and the Security Council. At the same time we
declare: terror must not be the answer to terror.
Terrorism is not a political party, not even a state. Terrorism a
philosophy, a method. It can be used by the most different political
forces. Yes, terrorist organisations have changed the character of
their activity. Yes; their destructive power has been enormous. But,
why? What is the real reason?
Terrorism has its roots in the world's global problems. Before, at
those times when terrorism was useful for the capitalist big powers in
their fight against socialism, they supported it, financially,
militarily, politically. But now it is beyond their control and has
turned against them.
The aim of the current US-British military operations is not to arrest
Bin Laden and members of his terrorist organisation. The obvious
priority is a demonstration of force by the USA.
Worldwide US offensive
The NATO war against Yugoslavia was the experimental laboratory for
the large scale capitalist offensive we are witnessing now. The NATO
aggression in 1999 had its clear aims:
To finish the process of capitalist changes in Eastern Europe, to
avoid all possibilities to return to socialism.
To weaken Russia, undermining its international influence.
To strengthen US influence in Europe in a situation when the
European common currency just introduced before seemed to overcome US
dollar.
To elaborate new methods of political, moral, media, and military
war.
Important conclusions were made after the war. Some of these lessons
made the US and NATO to revise basic elements of their policy before
beginning a large-scale new offensive.
It has become quit evident that even the sophisticated US weapons
do mistakes. Remember the bombardments of the Chinese Embassy in
Belgrade or the so-called undesired attacks against civil persons.
It became clear that there is a gap between military capacities of the
US and their European allies. Just after Yugoslavian war Europe has
begun its new military doctrine and the EU began its tragic way to
turn into an organisation with strong military and security aspect.
Western countries could exclude Russia from Balkan regulation, but
Russia was not weakened. On the contrary during the presidency of
Putin the situation in Russia has been consolidated. Russia finds
newly its voice of super power.
The result of media war astonished deeply Western leaders. It was
very difficult to mobilise public opinion for war-participation. The
public opinion of such countries like Spain, Greece, Portugal, partly
Italy turned against war. Later, especially after Kosovo's occupation
many of the pro-war intellectuals expressed their doubts concerning
imperialist ideological explanations. Nato Secretary General already
in October 1999 warned NATO states to strengthen media work against
NATO-sceptic elements. The concept of so-called human rights, ethnic
cleaning have failed forever and nobody uses them today.
The Balkan peace settlement has turned to into a farce. There is no
stability on the Balkan. In Yugoslavia situation continues to be
serious.
Capitalist forces coming to power last October would like to finish
capitalist political and social changes in all fields of life. The
economic situation in Yugoslavia is catastrophic. New government
cannot solve these problems.
The arrest of Milosevic and his extradition to Hague has broken one of
the pillars of government coalition. Left forces are in deep crisis.
Kosovo is under NATO occupation. The US wants to create a sovereign
Kosovo although they deny it officially. In Macedonia US supports
Alban ethnic forces. The NATO and US will remain for a long time in
this region.
"The events of September 11th have changed many things. They have
reinforced the logic of keeping the peace in the Balkans - because
building stable, multi-ethnic states are our best insurance against
terrorism emerging in the first place."- NATO leaders declared.
The neighbours of Yugoslavia are unsatisfied with the results of the
peace settlement. They expected much more money for their political
and military assistance. Some of them have territorial claims, though
usually non-declared officially. The question of borders is not
closed. Many of these nationalistic forces hope to realise their
dreams about Great Albania, Great Hungary, sovereign Vojvodina and
sovereign Montenegro using this uncertain situation.
One of the aims of the war against Belgrade was to create a strong
corridor against Islamic forces which are playing more and more
important role in the world. It was not enough. The situation in the
Middle East has been worse as result of open Israeli aggression. The
Israeli government tries to overcome its internal crises by escalation
of conflict. The Middle East crisis serves American interests, too.
Bush: new conservative world
The Bush government has greatly changed the US policy and has
influenced very deeply the whole international situation.
First, US leaders are aware of weakening possibilities of USA in
modern world. They have decided to strengthen American hegemony in
world.
Second, US leaders are clearly aware of economic crisis in USA. They
expect from a global political and military offensive a new up come in
economy.
Third, US want to strengthen its leading position in military field.
Fourth, US want to diminish the role of Russia, and in long
perspective change it to a fully capitalist country.
Fifth, US want to stop in foreseeable perspective socialist
development of China and to finish historical revenge of capitalism.
Sixth, US want to create a new conservative world order with clear
American dominancy.
Seventh, The new policy has its clear internal aspects, too. US and
some other Western political forces came to the conclusion that new
challenges, like antiglobalisation movements, strengthening of non
Christian religions etc cannot be handled by classical methods of
bourgeois democracy, parlamentarism etc. There are attempts to
restrict the constitutional freedoms of citizens and persecute
so-called "anti-American" attitudes. Lets remember that US President
now has got the right to decide alone about war and peace, to decide
who is good and who is bad. We witness change to the presidential
ruling in Great Britain, in Italy, and even in Hungary. We see
dangerous movement to fascism.
We should carefully study what these all changes mean for contemporary
capitalism generally. Can we speak about general tendencies, including
fascism?
US leaders are clearly aware of economic crisis in USA. They expect
from a global military and political offensive a new and even long
lasting up rise in economy that has risen only by 2,5% for the first
half of 2001. We can see the first concrete steps. Military industry,
air transport has got such amounts of money they had not even dreamed
about. Under normal circumstances it would have been impossible.
Beside economic aims they want to strengthen their leading position in
military field. New military building up will take place. The new
military program can probably include space armaments, antimissile
defence systems. At the same time military building up will be spread
on traditional armaments, new types of aeroplanes, tanks, and weapon
systems.
The USA is going on with enlargement of NATO. They try to overcome the
opposition of some their allies in EU, and Russia. The Prague summit
can decide to invite to NATO Slovakia, Slovenia. The Baltic States
mean a great question. Experts do not exclude that the Prague summit
will not take final decisions.
The most aggressive forces in NATO now can explain their aim to give a
new role to NATO in world affairs. Remember what Robertson said
recently:
"There is a deep awareness that this is going to be a long
struggle, a struggle in which patience and persistence will be key.
Those who expected US unilateralism have witnessed instead a
masterpiece of multilaterally - rallying the world behind a common
purpose in a way only the US can. This has been coalition building at
its very best. NATO will of course be one of the key pillars of that
coalition"
Or lets take an other fresh literary masterpiece of NATO Secretary
General: "Europe's Security and Defence Identity is still in its early
stages. And the structures and functions of the UN and OSCE are
different and certainly do not mirror the unique composition,
strength, cohesion and speed of delivery of NATO".
Enlargement itself can lose some of its importance. Now it is more
important to give new functions to NATO. It is a permanent coalition,
a unique network with 19 nations and with further 27 in a partnership
relationship.
The 46 nations Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council is getting also new
aspects. It must enable NATO "to mobilise a coalition for the long
haul, tying in countries from Vancouver to Bishkek to make a
difference on real issues such as effective border control in Central
Asia."
EU: own concerns and interests
The EU-countries have their own concerns and interests. The economy of
the EU has braked. Temps of development have been diminished in most
of EU countries. Last year the production of GDP in EU has risen by
3,4%, this year only by 2,6%. The course of euro to dollars has been
falling and only during the last weeks there are some rises. The
EU-countries cut down almost all achievements of welfare state.
Internal political and social tension is increasing.
Germany has a special role. German economy develops slower than other
EU-states. This year GDP production rose by 2,6%.
The German Red-Green government for the first time after WW II decided
to send German soldiers into military action. They are aggravating the
political, social and ecological problems by socially unjust reforms
of the pension and tax systems, by an austerity policy detrimental to
future economic development. They cannot achieve real progress in
overcoming unemployment, whereby they disappointed many voters.
Further integration of East Germany is also a big question.
The conservative forces in Europe hope to return to power after many
years of social democratic government. Their strategic aim is to
establish a new conservative order in Europe. The most pillars of this
new conservative order would be strict commitment to conservative
values, final historical liquidation of all socialist and communist
experiments, full recognition of US strategic concepts.
After the collapse of Soviet Union the conflicts between the USA and
European allies became sharper. US try to share military burdens with
the Europeans. They insist on building up a sovereign European
military force but they want to save control first of all through
NATO.
The EU-enlargement leads to new serious conflicts. The Nice Treaty of
last year clearly demonstrated that large EU states want fully control
the Union. There is serious discussion among the leading countries
about the future of European institutions.
Ireland is the only of the 15 EU member states voting on the Nice
Treaty, which legally can only enter into force if ratified by all.
46.13 per cents were in favour of the Nice Treaty and 53.87 per cent
were against. This is the first time that an EU treaty has been
defeated by a referendum in Ireland.
The negative result of Danish referendum about Euro, the negative
attitude of Irish people expressed during the Irish referendum about
Nice treaty, the rising pro-referendum behaviour in Austria show
clearly that important socials forces have increased their activity.
The EU has been supported the new US policy from the very beginning.
First, the leading European states have realised their common class
interests. They are interested in common fight against threatening
anti-globalisation forces, rebirth of communist forces, for stopping
Chinese offensive.
Secondly, they also realised, that US could play its role without
them. The EU capital does not want to lose the chance to share with US
the economic and political privileges of capitalist militarisation.
Third, they see that the European economies also need serious
additional forces. War and concentration of power can be one of them.
Fourth, the EU political leaders are threatened by the
antiglobalisation fight. It has become cleat that existing
political institutions cannot solve this problem.
Russia: strategic ally or strategic enemy?
US continue considering Russia as one the strategic adversaries, one
of the main obstacles on the way to US World Empire. Western
capitalist forces have not given up their plan to create in Russia
social-political system identical with that in Western countries. They
understand that it can be realised only in the far future.
US would like to press Russia to accept their antimissile defence
plans and other one sided political steps in the world. Russia wants
to make US to recognise its strategic interests in the Baltic States
and Central Asia.
The EU is interested in a larger - than the US - degree of economic
ties with Russia. Europe cannot give up energy import from this
country, but they fight against the new offensive of Russian companies
on Eastern European markets and the natural desire of Russian firms to
get leading position in Eastern Europe and on the Balkan by buying up
local industrial companies
Russia tries to use the conflicts between USA and EU. They have
recently signed French-Russian declaration on strategic issues.
The EU does not want to cooperate with Russia against the USA, but
they are interested in saving strategic balance.
Russia and China have recently signed treaty of friendship and
strategic cooperation. Formally it contains nothing against US but on
practical terms it means serious political, economic and even military
step against US policy.
China is developing its bilateral relation with formal socialist
countries in Europe. The demonstrative state visit of Chinese
President to Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldavia was more than a symbolic
opening to these important countries.
NATO leaders and US understand that Russia does not want to accept
neither the new role of NATO nor its enlargement. They think that in
Russian eyes, Article 5 has been the quintessential demonstration of
NATO's Cold War orientation. Now NATO found a new explanation of
Article 5 in an entirely different context, one to which Russia can
relate. They hope to use the real interest of Russian to stop Islamic
forces in places like Central Asia.
China: principal challenge of the 21 century
China has achieved serious successes in economic and social
development.
Chinese economy is rising every year, people began to live better.
China is right to declare that it is due to the development of
socialism. China played important role in peace efforts on Balkan.
Beijing has got the right to organise Olympic games that clearly
expresses its increasing international respect and influence.
Western leaders try to explain Chinese successes by the fact that
China uses many capitalist methods in economic and even social policy.
Western politicians say that it is nothing more than economic and
social reform that have opened the way before capitalist development
in China, too. It is fare from the truth.
The strategy of Western countries is simple. They try to involve China
in international cooperation by inviting to WTO and other forms of
economic cooperation, and to contribute to the strengthening of
private sector in China.
They use military and diplomatic methods to influence Chinese
leadership make them to understand that only a pro Western political
elite devoted to Western political values and standards can get the
sympathy of West.
During the Bush-administration US-Chinese relationship has become more
tensioned. The incident with American intelligence airplane this
spring was the first serious political affair for a long period.
US-administration has made even some gestures. It did not oppose
publicly the Beijing Olympic Games and said no on Taiwan idea to
create common US-Japanese-Taiwan antimissile defence.
But it is only the surface. The Bush-administration wants to speed up
capitalist changes in China. They try to use internal forces in China,
too. US policy does not want a final worsening of strategic
relationships with China. US are interested in economic ties, and
China is an important actor also in some Pacific and Asian issues.
What to do?
I am convinced: the fight against capitalist globalization is central
to the class struggle today. It touches and affects virtually every
economic, social and political struggle of our parties.
Fidel Castro said the following phrases in Durban on September the 1:
"The capitalist, developed and wealthy countries today participate of
the imperialist system born of capitalism itself and the economic
order imposed to the world based on the philosophy of selfishness and
the brutal competition between men, nations and groups of nations
which in completely indifferent to any feelings of solidarity and
honest international cooperation. They live under the misleading,
irresponsible and hallucinating atmosphere of consumer societies. I
wonder: Will they be able to understand the grave problems of today's
world which in its incoherent and uneven development is ruled by blind
laws, by the huge power and the interests of the ever growing and
increasingly uncontrollable and independent transnational
corporations?
Will they come to understand the impending universal chaos and
rebellion? And, even if they wanted to, could they put an end to
racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and other related issues,
which are precisely the rest of them all?
>From my viewpoint we are on the verge of a huge economic, social and
political global crisis. Let's try to build an awareness about these
realities and the alternatives will come up. History has shown that it
is only from deep crisis that great solutions have emerged. The
peoples' right to life and justice will definitely impose itself under
a thousand different shapes"
Left forces should play definitively more active role in fight against
war, terrorism, for democratic international relations.
We have now better conditions for it than 5-10 years ago. We see some
consolidation in left movement. Left and other progressive forces have
archived serious results in recent period, although there has not been
a dramatic positive change, yet.
The antiglobalisation movement has become a very serious factor. All
of us remember the streets of Seattle, Genoa, Salzburg. Goteborg. And
most of us know what role communists are playing in this movement. We
think we should help to spread the antiglobalisation movement on
Eastern Europe, too.
Antiwar movement plays a very sensitive role on Greece, Italy and in
many other countries, which are important for our parties.
Now we have better conditions to cooperate on the terrorism-war issue
than during the war against Yugoslavia. Many of us remember the
dramatic summit meeting of European communist leaders on Cyprus. No
real result, positions were to far from each other. The European
communist left could not stop the war. Now, the situation is
different. Our positions are very near to each other.
The Hungarian Workers' Party support all efforts to strengthen our
cooperation. The Hungarian Workers' Party proposes to organise
International Summit of Left Forces on War.
Our position is clear. We deny terrorism and do not consider it a
possible form of fight against capitalism. What we left forces want is
safe, peaceful, and democratic world. The road to it is not the
violence. The only possible way to achieve such a world is the
exclusion of violence from the international relations, the peaceful,
by political means, handling of conflicts.
The road to it: establish a society based on social justice.
At the same time we declare: terror must not be the answer on terror.
The recent military action of the US is not a classical war: it is a
sort of mean terrorism raised on the level of state politics.
New weapons systems do not bring security. We should continue
fighting against military programs.
NATO is totally unsuitable for combating terrorism. It arose from
confrontation and its self-image is unchanged. Its new alliance
strategy does not solve any security problems. On the contrary, it
creates new ones. We should not give up our fight against NATO.
We think it is the United Nations who should get its decisive role in
international questions. All measures have to be carried out through
the united efforts of the international community with the United
Nations at the centre and under the control of the UN. For the
elimination of international terrorism, it is vital to create, through
isolation of terrorists by the whole international community, a
situation in which there is no place in the world for the terrorists
to hide. There is no other organization but the United Nations that
can play a central role and has the authority to carry it out.
The international community should enter into a dialogue of cultures;
lead a non-military struggle against poverty, misery and injustice in
the world to remove the hotbeds of terrorism.
We should demand to spend much more money on development aid. We
should demand to spend money not on military adventures in Kosovo and
other places but on help to Afghan refugees and to the Palestinian
Authority as assistance to the suffering civil population. We demand
to finance these operations by a special tax on the assets of the
multi-millionaires.
We should fight for democracy, against the policy of leading
capitalist powers. They misuse the people's fear of war. They use the
wartime psychosis to draw away popular attention from the hardships in
the economy and the society. At the same time, the mass media boycott
the different public statements of left and other antiwar forces
opposing this war. We should fight against violation of freedom of
press and the democratic basic rights of the citizens. We should fight
against right extremism and fascism.
We have our national task, too. We, the Hungarian Workers' Party
condemns the decision of the Hungarian government and the Hungarian
Parliament to support the militarist policy of the US. Hungary has no
kind of military interests, neither on the Balkans, nor in
Afghanistan. What is in the interests of the Hungarian people is not
war, but peace.
The Hungarian Workers' Party demands that Hungary should diminish its
activity in the NATO to the minimum. We oppose that nuclear weapons
and other weapons of mass destruction be deployed on Hungarian soil.
American and all other foreign troops must be withdrawn from Hungary.
No Hungarian soldier must wage a war outside Hungary! Hungarian troops
must be recalled from abroad.
Dear friends,
People fear of war, terror attacks. People think they cannot do
anything against war. We should demonstrate people, young and old,
that they are not alone. We can and should fight against war, and we
will do it. I am optimist.
I am convinced that the international left movement is the political
force which can and will give people the safety of future generations
in an uncertain future.
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STENOGRAM sa pojavljivanja predsednika Slobodana Milo�evica
pred "Haskim tribunalom", 30. avgusta 2001. godine u Hagu
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2001/avgust/31-03.html
SAOP�TENJE PREDSEDNIKA MILO�EVICA O NELEGALNOSTI HA�KOG TRIBUNALA
> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/kasnije/2001-08-31-2.html
Transcript of the second appearance of president Slobodan Milosevic
before the so-called ICTY on 30 August 2001.
> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/kasnije/2001-08-31-1.html
Statement that president Milosevic was not allowed to read when he
appeared, August 30, before the "tribunal" in the Hague.
STATEMENT OF PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
ON THE ILLEGITIMACY OF THE HAGUE "TRIBUNAL"
---
> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/2001.10/24.html
DECLARATION
of the International Conference
"Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic - Moral, Political and Legal Imperative"
held in Belgrade, October, 21-22, 2001
We, representatives of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic and nine National Committees have gathered in Belgrade 21 and
22 October 2001 under the auspices of the Yugoslav Committee (Freedom
Association). We express our deepest bitterness over the arrest of
Slobodan Milosevic, the current President of the largest opposition
party in Serbia and Yugoslavia.
President Milosevic is globally renowned for fighting for more than a
decade for the Serbs and all Yugoslav peoples, a struggle that has made
him the adversary of all who wanted to jeopardize that freedom. By the
conjunction of historical circumstances, those powers which wanted to
jeopardize the freedom of the Yugoslav peoples, as well as the freedom
of other nations, were big, powerful and ruthless. The number of their
victims, both peoples and individuals, is continuously growing.
Slobodan Milosevic has been the main target. For a long time he fought
the mightiest powers that joined together, deserting all semblance of
nobility, and even reason.
Leaders of the struggle for national independence in other countries
and for other peoples have replaced one another, thus sharing the wrath
of the violent. But Slobodan Milosevic took upon himself the full
burden of that wrath.
For a whole decade he was subjected to the most brutal attacks in the
U.S.-dominated mass media in an effort to reverse the roles of victim
and culprit and thus to hide NATO�s vicious policy of releasing the
worst terrorist forces to tear apart Yugoslavia. Then President
Milosevic was subjected to legal and political violence by authorities
in his own country, who were acting for foreign powers. He was
illegally jailed in Belgrade. When the new regime could no longer hold
him, they kidnapped him from jail and turned him over to NATO, which
transported him to the Hague so-called Tribunal. Thus he is the first
democratically elected head of state to be jailed in the dungeon of the
New World Order.
What was his crime against this New World Order? Only that he loved his
people and freedom, and fought for both.
What do the new Masters hope to gain by kidnapping him? To use the
false spectacle of a trial to justify the breakup of Yugoslavia,
achieved through lies, threats, bribery and the cruelest violence.
In the attack on Yugoslavia, the United Nations has been degraded into
a tool of U.S./EU neocolonial violence. Now President Milosevic has
been imprisoned in a �UN� court. The function of that court is to give
the appearance of legality to the grossest violations of international
law.
The idea of creating a court that puts on trial the leaders of
resistance to aggression, while whitewashing those who instigated and
waged terrorist-secessionist wars and naked aggression, dismembering
and punishing Yugoslavia, could only be born in the most distorted
minds. The Hague �Tribunal� is a political instrument of genocide and
the satanization of the Serbian people, and not a court of law.
We call upon the peoples of the world and those leaders who care about
truth and justice: let us a take joint stand against the violence that
is threatening us all. Let us resist with the energy and dignity
demonstrated by Slobodan Milosevic during the past decade, and now
before the Hague kangaroo court. With the demand for the release of
Slobodan Milosevic we defend international law, equality among nations,
ethnic fraternity and the right of ordinary people to live in peace
without the fear that their nations will be attacked and decimated by
NATO.
We call upon the United Nations, an organization established to connect
peoples and individuals, to protect the poor and small against the
wrath of the powerful and rich. Abolish this Hague false Tribunal. Free
the Serbian patriots imprisoned in the name of the United Nations. Free
Slobodan Milosevic, symbol of the World�s resistance of this unjust,
New Order.
There is now much consciousness and discussion of the impact of
terrorism. The truth is the attack on Yugoslavia has been and continues
to be waged through the use of terrorist forces and similar fascist
groupings, directed in the most cynical fashion by NATO, under U.S.
government leadership. President Milosevic led the fight against these
forces while maintaining a policy of compassion and fraternity towards
all ethnic groups and social justice for ordinary people. The idea of a
worldwide struggle against terrorism while this hero of resistance
languishes in the Hague dungeon is an outrage.
Free Slobodan Milosevic Now.
ACTION PLAN
Adopted by the International Conference
"Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic - Moral, Political and Legal Imperative.
Belgrade, October 21-22, 2001.
Considering the illegal arrest, abduction and attempted trial of
President Slobodan Milosevic before the US-Nato "Tribunal" in The Hague
a further attack on the sovereignty of Yugoslavia, on the freedom of
all countries and peoples and on justice and law in international
relations, and in order to obtain the immediate release of President
Milosevic, we shall concentrate on the following actions and coordinate
our efforts on the implementation of the same:
MOBILISATION
Organise demonstrations, petitions, lectures and other forms of public
pressure on political decision-makers in order to spread the truth
about the threat to the sovereignty of all Nations if the show-trial
against PresidentMilosevic continues, and in order to encourage
concrete actions in the UN to stop the US-Nato-The Hague inquisition as
well as all Ad-Hoc Tribunal inquisitions.
Encourage prominent public figures to support or join Committees to
free Slobodan Milosevic.
Organise locally conferences, seminars, round tables and public
tribunals on the illegality of the The Hague Tribunal and its
proceedings in order to affirm the truth.
Sending mass-petitions and protests to the Yugoslavian and Serbian Nato-
obedient governments and institutions
Pressuring the governments and institutions in our respective countries
by promoting parliamentary actions on the above subjects, demanding of
governments to take political, legal and diplomatic action.
Working with peace and antiglobalisation movements, with alla fora and
organisations that share our objectives and our concept of human
rights, in order to make the fate of President Milosevic and of
Yugoslavia a permanent and centrale issue of these movements.
COMMUNICATION
Expose the double standards in assessing terrorism, as well as the
tragic and injust consequences of such double standards.
Underscore in public and political work the proven links between the
KLA and Al Qaeda, against the background of other US-sponsored
terrorist organisation such as Contras, terrorists in Chechnia,
Kashmir, Algeria, Philippines, etc.
Expose western main-stream media demonisation of President Milosevic
and of the Serbian people, along the lines of what has been done in the
past with regards to other political leaders and peoples fighting for
liberation..
Providing law professors, lawyers and their associations across the
worldwith precise information on the illegality of The Hague "Tribunal"
and itsdetention of President Milosevic, as well as on the that
institution's violation of all principles of Law and international
conventions on human rights.
Assisting President Milosevic in expressing his views on world and
national developments so as to keep and stress his status as a
political leader and a victim of persecution.
Providing, mainly through the work of the Yugoslavian Committee,
factual documentation and historical background on 10 years of assaults
on Yugoslavia and its people, iu order to enable committees across the
worldto rectify misconceptions and false information on these events.
OPERATIONS
Sending a ICDSM & Conference delegation to meet President of Russian
Federation , Vladimir Putin, and President of People's China, Jiang
Zemin
Sending the final Conference Declaration to the UN General Assembly
Chairman, to governments of all UN member countries, to political
parties across the world.
Spreading and strengthening the network of Committees to disband the
illegal The Hague Tribunal and to free Slobodan Milosevic.
Securing support by leaders of Developing Countries for action to
releasePresident Milosevic and disband the illegal Tribunal and forming
an AdvisoryBoard that would include some of these leaders, together
with prominent intellectuals, scientists, politicians, journalists, etc.
Establishing a permanent lawyers-media presence in The Hague.
Denouncing the violations of human rights inflicted by the The Hague
Tribunalon its political prisoner Slobodan Milosevic, as well as on all
other political detainees, with particular regard to the constant
harassing of Milosevic through inhuman detention conditions and by
creating obstacles to his contacts with his legal advisers, his family,
his friends At the same time organising visits by political
personalities and pressing the Tribunal to allow as many as possible of
such visits.
Promoting campaigns of letters, faxes, e-mail messages to pressurise
media to pay attention and report on the above actions.
Establishing constant fund-raising initiatives.
SPS 2001.
---
> http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/svet/2.htm
JUTARNJE NOVINE, IZDANJE ZA SREDU 24. OKTOBAR, 2001 3:11 AM
Potpredsednik SPS-a primio inostrane goste ucesnike konferencije
�Sloboda za Slobodana Milo�evica�
Svet da preispita stav prema albanskom terorizmu
Potpredsednik SPS Zivadin Jovanovic, primio je inostrane goste ucesnike
u radu dvodnevne medunarodne konferencije �Sloboda za Slobodana
Milo�evica � moralni, politicki i pravni imeprativ�, saop�teno je juce
iz Glavnog odbora SPS-a.
Pozdravljajuci ugledne licnosti iz Evrope i drugih delova sveta
profesore, pravnike, publiciste, politicare - Jovanovic je istakao da
se Slobodan Milo�evic borio za ravnopravnost svih naroda na Balkanu i u
medunarodnim odnosima uop�te, da je njegov cilj ocuvanje Jugoslavije
kao zemlje ravnopravnih naroda i njeno ukljucivanje regionalne i
evropske integracije. On se borio protiv albanskog terorizma i
separatizma koji i danas predstavlja osnovnu pretnju miru i stabilnosti
na Balkanu i koji je nosilac organizovanog medunarodnog kriminala.
Borba protiv terorizma iskljucuje dvostruke standarde. Terorizam kao
univerzalno svetsko zlo jednako ugrozava interese malih i velikih
zemalja. Zato svaka zemlja ima legitimno pravo da se bori protiv tog
zla. U svetlosti najnovijih tragicnih iskustava nakon teroristickih
napada u Americi, potrebno je preispitati dosada�nju politiku kljucnih
medunarodnih faktora prema albanskom terorizmu na Balkanu, kao i prema
nosiocima borbe protiv tog terorizma � istakao je, pored ostalog,
Zivadin Jovanovic.
On je upoznao goste iz SAD, Rusije, Holandije, Bugarske, Grcke,
Italije, Jordana, Kanade, Nemacke, Rumunije i drugih zemalja da ce u
Beogradu uskoro biti organizovana medunarodna konferencija o borbi
protiv terorizma kao svetske opasnosti, kaze se u saop�tenju.
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STENOGRAM sa pojavljivanja predsednika Slobodana Milo�evica
pred "Haskim tribunalom", 30. avgusta 2001. godine u Hagu
> http://www.sps.org.yu/aktuelno/2001/avgust/31-03.html
SAOP�TENJE PREDSEDNIKA MILO�EVICA O NELEGALNOSTI HA�KOG TRIBUNALA
> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/kasnije/2001-08-31-2.html
Transcript of the second appearance of president Slobodan Milosevic
before the so-called ICTY on 30 August 2001.
> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/kasnije/2001-08-31-1.html
Statement that president Milosevic was not allowed to read when he
appeared, August 30, before the "tribunal" in the Hague.
STATEMENT OF PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
ON THE ILLEGITIMACY OF THE HAGUE "TRIBUNAL"
---
> http://www.sps.org.yu/eng/news/2001.10/24.html
DECLARATION
of the International Conference
"Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic - Moral, Political and Legal Imperative"
held in Belgrade, October, 21-22, 2001
We, representatives of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic and nine National Committees have gathered in Belgrade 21 and
22 October 2001 under the auspices of the Yugoslav Committee (Freedom
Association). We express our deepest bitterness over the arrest of
Slobodan Milosevic, the current President of the largest opposition
party in Serbia and Yugoslavia.
President Milosevic is globally renowned for fighting for more than a
decade for the Serbs and all Yugoslav peoples, a struggle that has made
him the adversary of all who wanted to jeopardize that freedom. By the
conjunction of historical circumstances, those powers which wanted to
jeopardize the freedom of the Yugoslav peoples, as well as the freedom
of other nations, were big, powerful and ruthless. The number of their
victims, both peoples and individuals, is continuously growing.
Slobodan Milosevic has been the main target. For a long time he fought
the mightiest powers that joined together, deserting all semblance of
nobility, and even reason.
Leaders of the struggle for national independence in other countries
and for other peoples have replaced one another, thus sharing the wrath
of the violent. But Slobodan Milosevic took upon himself the full
burden of that wrath.
For a whole decade he was subjected to the most brutal attacks in the
U.S.-dominated mass media in an effort to reverse the roles of victim
and culprit and thus to hide NATO�s vicious policy of releasing the
worst terrorist forces to tear apart Yugoslavia. Then President
Milosevic was subjected to legal and political violence by authorities
in his own country, who were acting for foreign powers. He was
illegally jailed in Belgrade. When the new regime could no longer hold
him, they kidnapped him from jail and turned him over to NATO, which
transported him to the Hague so-called Tribunal. Thus he is the first
democratically elected head of state to be jailed in the dungeon of the
New World Order.
What was his crime against this New World Order? Only that he loved his
people and freedom, and fought for both.
What do the new Masters hope to gain by kidnapping him? To use the
false spectacle of a trial to justify the breakup of Yugoslavia,
achieved through lies, threats, bribery and the cruelest violence.
In the attack on Yugoslavia, the United Nations has been degraded into
a tool of U.S./EU neocolonial violence. Now President Milosevic has
been imprisoned in a �UN� court. The function of that court is to give
the appearance of legality to the grossest violations of international
law.
The idea of creating a court that puts on trial the leaders of
resistance to aggression, while whitewashing those who instigated and
waged terrorist-secessionist wars and naked aggression, dismembering
and punishing Yugoslavia, could only be born in the most distorted
minds. The Hague �Tribunal� is a political instrument of genocide and
the satanization of the Serbian people, and not a court of law.
We call upon the peoples of the world and those leaders who care about
truth and justice: let us a take joint stand against the violence that
is threatening us all. Let us resist with the energy and dignity
demonstrated by Slobodan Milosevic during the past decade, and now
before the Hague kangaroo court. With the demand for the release of
Slobodan Milosevic we defend international law, equality among nations,
ethnic fraternity and the right of ordinary people to live in peace
without the fear that their nations will be attacked and decimated by
NATO.
We call upon the United Nations, an organization established to connect
peoples and individuals, to protect the poor and small against the
wrath of the powerful and rich. Abolish this Hague false Tribunal. Free
the Serbian patriots imprisoned in the name of the United Nations. Free
Slobodan Milosevic, symbol of the World�s resistance of this unjust,
New Order.
There is now much consciousness and discussion of the impact of
terrorism. The truth is the attack on Yugoslavia has been and continues
to be waged through the use of terrorist forces and similar fascist
groupings, directed in the most cynical fashion by NATO, under U.S.
government leadership. President Milosevic led the fight against these
forces while maintaining a policy of compassion and fraternity towards
all ethnic groups and social justice for ordinary people. The idea of a
worldwide struggle against terrorism while this hero of resistance
languishes in the Hague dungeon is an outrage.
Free Slobodan Milosevic Now.
ACTION PLAN
Adopted by the International Conference
"Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic - Moral, Political and Legal Imperative.
Belgrade, October 21-22, 2001.
Considering the illegal arrest, abduction and attempted trial of
President Slobodan Milosevic before the US-Nato "Tribunal" in The Hague
a further attack on the sovereignty of Yugoslavia, on the freedom of
all countries and peoples and on justice and law in international
relations, and in order to obtain the immediate release of President
Milosevic, we shall concentrate on the following actions and coordinate
our efforts on the implementation of the same:
MOBILISATION
Organise demonstrations, petitions, lectures and other forms of public
pressure on political decision-makers in order to spread the truth
about the threat to the sovereignty of all Nations if the show-trial
against PresidentMilosevic continues, and in order to encourage
concrete actions in the UN to stop the US-Nato-The Hague inquisition as
well as all Ad-Hoc Tribunal inquisitions.
Encourage prominent public figures to support or join Committees to
free Slobodan Milosevic.
Organise locally conferences, seminars, round tables and public
tribunals on the illegality of the The Hague Tribunal and its
proceedings in order to affirm the truth.
Sending mass-petitions and protests to the Yugoslavian and Serbian Nato-
obedient governments and institutions
Pressuring the governments and institutions in our respective countries
by promoting parliamentary actions on the above subjects, demanding of
governments to take political, legal and diplomatic action.
Working with peace and antiglobalisation movements, with alla fora and
organisations that share our objectives and our concept of human
rights, in order to make the fate of President Milosevic and of
Yugoslavia a permanent and centrale issue of these movements.
COMMUNICATION
Expose the double standards in assessing terrorism, as well as the
tragic and injust consequences of such double standards.
Underscore in public and political work the proven links between the
KLA and Al Qaeda, against the background of other US-sponsored
terrorist organisation such as Contras, terrorists in Chechnia,
Kashmir, Algeria, Philippines, etc.
Expose western main-stream media demonisation of President Milosevic
and of the Serbian people, along the lines of what has been done in the
past with regards to other political leaders and peoples fighting for
liberation..
Providing law professors, lawyers and their associations across the
worldwith precise information on the illegality of The Hague "Tribunal"
and itsdetention of President Milosevic, as well as on the that
institution's violation of all principles of Law and international
conventions on human rights.
Assisting President Milosevic in expressing his views on world and
national developments so as to keep and stress his status as a
political leader and a victim of persecution.
Providing, mainly through the work of the Yugoslavian Committee,
factual documentation and historical background on 10 years of assaults
on Yugoslavia and its people, iu order to enable committees across the
worldto rectify misconceptions and false information on these events.
OPERATIONS
Sending a ICDSM & Conference delegation to meet President of Russian
Federation , Vladimir Putin, and President of People's China, Jiang
Zemin
Sending the final Conference Declaration to the UN General Assembly
Chairman, to governments of all UN member countries, to political
parties across the world.
Spreading and strengthening the network of Committees to disband the
illegal The Hague Tribunal and to free Slobodan Milosevic.
Securing support by leaders of Developing Countries for action to
releasePresident Milosevic and disband the illegal Tribunal and forming
an AdvisoryBoard that would include some of these leaders, together
with prominent intellectuals, scientists, politicians, journalists, etc.
Establishing a permanent lawyers-media presence in The Hague.
Denouncing the violations of human rights inflicted by the The Hague
Tribunalon its political prisoner Slobodan Milosevic, as well as on all
other political detainees, with particular regard to the constant
harassing of Milosevic through inhuman detention conditions and by
creating obstacles to his contacts with his legal advisers, his family,
his friends At the same time organising visits by political
personalities and pressing the Tribunal to allow as many as possible of
such visits.
Promoting campaigns of letters, faxes, e-mail messages to pressurise
media to pay attention and report on the above actions.
Establishing constant fund-raising initiatives.
SPS 2001.
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> http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/svet/2.htm
JUTARNJE NOVINE, IZDANJE ZA SREDU 24. OKTOBAR, 2001 3:11 AM
Potpredsednik SPS-a primio inostrane goste ucesnike konferencije
�Sloboda za Slobodana Milo�evica�
Svet da preispita stav prema albanskom terorizmu
Potpredsednik SPS Zivadin Jovanovic, primio je inostrane goste ucesnike
u radu dvodnevne medunarodne konferencije �Sloboda za Slobodana
Milo�evica � moralni, politicki i pravni imeprativ�, saop�teno je juce
iz Glavnog odbora SPS-a.
Pozdravljajuci ugledne licnosti iz Evrope i drugih delova sveta
profesore, pravnike, publiciste, politicare - Jovanovic je istakao da
se Slobodan Milo�evic borio za ravnopravnost svih naroda na Balkanu i u
medunarodnim odnosima uop�te, da je njegov cilj ocuvanje Jugoslavije
kao zemlje ravnopravnih naroda i njeno ukljucivanje regionalne i
evropske integracije. On se borio protiv albanskog terorizma i
separatizma koji i danas predstavlja osnovnu pretnju miru i stabilnosti
na Balkanu i koji je nosilac organizovanog medunarodnog kriminala.
Borba protiv terorizma iskljucuje dvostruke standarde. Terorizam kao
univerzalno svetsko zlo jednako ugrozava interese malih i velikih
zemalja. Zato svaka zemlja ima legitimno pravo da se bori protiv tog
zla. U svetlosti najnovijih tragicnih iskustava nakon teroristickih
napada u Americi, potrebno je preispitati dosada�nju politiku kljucnih
medunarodnih faktora prema albanskom terorizmu na Balkanu, kao i prema
nosiocima borbe protiv tog terorizma � istakao je, pored ostalog,
Zivadin Jovanovic.
On je upoznao goste iz SAD, Rusije, Holandije, Bugarske, Grcke,
Italije, Jordana, Kanade, Nemacke, Rumunije i drugih zemalja da ce u
Beogradu uskoro biti organizovana medunarodna konferencija o borbi
protiv terorizma kao svetske opasnosti, kaze se u saop�tenju.
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SERBIA: MANIFESTAZIONE A BELGRADO CONTRO NUOVA LEGGE LAVORO
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 23 OTT - Circa 8.000 manifestanti hanno protestato
oggi davanti alla sede del governo serbo contro il progetto di legge
sul lavoro presentato dall'esecutivo del premier Zoran Djindjic. I
sindacati chiedono la revoca del progetto, giudicato troppo sbilanciato
a favore dei datori di lavoro, e le dimissioni del ministro Dragan
Milovanovic. Il governo serbo considera la legge un nodo cruciale per
le riforme economiche, perche' consentirebbe di snellire gli organici
sovraddimensionati delle grandi imprese statali. I sindacati obiettano
citando l'alto numero di disoccupati in Serbia, il 25% della forza
lavoro secondo le statistiche ufficiali, oltre il 30% stando agli
organizzatori della protesta. (ANSA). OT
23/10/2001 18:05
> http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/dogadjaji/2.htm
JUTARNJE NOVINE, IZDANJE ZA SREDU 24. OKTOBAR, 2001 3:11 AM
Sindikati odrzali svoja obecanja i okupili radnike na masovnom skupu u
Beogradu
Dobar dan vlado, do�la ti je radnicka Srbija
Na Trgu Nikole Pa�ica okupile se desetine hiljada radnika da izraze
svoj protest protiv necivilizacijskog predloga Zakona o radu
Nekoliko desetina hiljada clanova Saveza sindikata Srbije, Ujedinjenih
granskih sindikata �Nezavisnost� i Novog sindikata zdravstva,
nezadovoljni Predlogom zakona o radu, okupilo se juce na Trgu Nikole
Pa�ica u Beogradu. Sindikati smatraju da je predlozeni Zakon o radu
neprihvatljiv za radnike i da treba da bude povucen iz skup�tinske
procedure, a da bi uz po�ten socijalni dijalog bio doraden i pobolj�an.
Predviden je odlazak radnika pred zgradu srpskog parlamenta gde ce biti
predata peticija sa 90.000 potpisa kojom se trazi povlacenje zakona.
Nakon toga planiran je odlazak i do zgrade republicke vlade gde ce
radnici traziti da im se obrati premijer Zoran �indic.
Protestni skup nastavljen je ispred republicke vlade, gde je kolona
ucesnika skupa stigla oko 13.30 sati. Spiker sindikata, s kamiona
parkiranog pred zgradom vlade, porucio je: �Dobar dan vlado, do�la ti
je radnicka Srbija�. Prema njegovim recima, to je ucinjeno da
vlada �vidi koliko nas je do�lo�. Ministar kaze: �Okupila se jedna
grupa radnika�, porucio je spiker i dodao da je ministar rada Dragan
Milovanovic izjavio za BK televiziju da se okupilo 2.000
nezadovoljnika�. Na protestnom skupu pred zgradom vlade ucesnici su
cekali da im se obrati premijer Zoran �indic, kako bi objasnio za�to je
predlozen ovakav zakon, a da Milovanovic da ostavku. Za �indica i
njegovu vladu pripremljena je peticija sa 90.000 potpisa kojom se trazi
povlacenje zakona.
(Tanjug)
> http://wwww.ansa.it/balcani/jugoslavia/20011015190232015962.html
SERBIA: CEMENTIFICI IN VENDITA ENTRO FINE ANNO
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 15 OTT - Tutti e tre i cementifici appartenenti allo
stato serbo saranno venduti entro la fine dell'anno a dei partner
strategici, ha annunciato il ministro per la ristrutturazione economica
e le privatizzazioni Aleksandar Vlahovic. Fra le imprese straniere
interessate, stando all'agenzia Beta, vi sono Italcementi, Lafarge,
Holderbank, Heidelbergzement e la greca Titan, che ha gia' acquistato
in Bosnia l'impianto di Lukovac. (ANSA). OT
15/10/2001 19:02
> http://wwww.ansa.it/balcani/jugoslavia/20011015185632015952.html
SERBIA: PRIVATIZZAZIONI, NUOVE GARE PER 12 GRANDI AZIENDE
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 15 OTT - Il governo serbo ha avviato una campagna di
informazione, pubblicizzata sul 'Financial Times', per la
privatizzazione di 12 grandi aziende del paese. Sono interessate in
particolare il settore agroalimentare (con la 'Hisar' e la 'Juzni
Banat', produttrici di frutta e verdure, la casa vinicola 'Vrsacki
Vinogradi', la 'Mitros', che tratta carni, e l'industria
dolciaria 'Ravanica') e le imprese edili (come 'Polet Ravnaja', 'Jelen-
Do', 'Kolubara Gasbeton', 'Prvi Maj-Lopovo' e 'Partizanski Put'). Le
nuove gare portano a 33 il numero di compagnie statali serbe messe in
vendita, e altre 11 societa' di medie dimensioni seguiranno a breve. Il
paese, ha sottolineato Mirko Cvetovic, funzionario del ministero per la
ristrutturazione economica, dovra' privatizzare 7.000 compagnie, di cui
300 con bando pubblico e il resto tramite aste. Altre 30 grandi
industrie - fra cui la casa automobilistica Zastava di Kragujevac -
necessitano di una seria ristrutturazione prima di trovare eventuali
partner. (ANSA). OT
15/10/2001 18:56
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(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 23 OTT - Circa 8.000 manifestanti hanno protestato
oggi davanti alla sede del governo serbo contro il progetto di legge
sul lavoro presentato dall'esecutivo del premier Zoran Djindjic. I
sindacati chiedono la revoca del progetto, giudicato troppo sbilanciato
a favore dei datori di lavoro, e le dimissioni del ministro Dragan
Milovanovic. Il governo serbo considera la legge un nodo cruciale per
le riforme economiche, perche' consentirebbe di snellire gli organici
sovraddimensionati delle grandi imprese statali. I sindacati obiettano
citando l'alto numero di disoccupati in Serbia, il 25% della forza
lavoro secondo le statistiche ufficiali, oltre il 30% stando agli
organizzatori della protesta. (ANSA). OT
23/10/2001 18:05
> http://www.jutarnje.co.yu/dogadjaji/2.htm
JUTARNJE NOVINE, IZDANJE ZA SREDU 24. OKTOBAR, 2001 3:11 AM
Sindikati odrzali svoja obecanja i okupili radnike na masovnom skupu u
Beogradu
Dobar dan vlado, do�la ti je radnicka Srbija
Na Trgu Nikole Pa�ica okupile se desetine hiljada radnika da izraze
svoj protest protiv necivilizacijskog predloga Zakona o radu
Nekoliko desetina hiljada clanova Saveza sindikata Srbije, Ujedinjenih
granskih sindikata �Nezavisnost� i Novog sindikata zdravstva,
nezadovoljni Predlogom zakona o radu, okupilo se juce na Trgu Nikole
Pa�ica u Beogradu. Sindikati smatraju da je predlozeni Zakon o radu
neprihvatljiv za radnike i da treba da bude povucen iz skup�tinske
procedure, a da bi uz po�ten socijalni dijalog bio doraden i pobolj�an.
Predviden je odlazak radnika pred zgradu srpskog parlamenta gde ce biti
predata peticija sa 90.000 potpisa kojom se trazi povlacenje zakona.
Nakon toga planiran je odlazak i do zgrade republicke vlade gde ce
radnici traziti da im se obrati premijer Zoran �indic.
Protestni skup nastavljen je ispred republicke vlade, gde je kolona
ucesnika skupa stigla oko 13.30 sati. Spiker sindikata, s kamiona
parkiranog pred zgradom vlade, porucio je: �Dobar dan vlado, do�la ti
je radnicka Srbija�. Prema njegovim recima, to je ucinjeno da
vlada �vidi koliko nas je do�lo�. Ministar kaze: �Okupila se jedna
grupa radnika�, porucio je spiker i dodao da je ministar rada Dragan
Milovanovic izjavio za BK televiziju da se okupilo 2.000
nezadovoljnika�. Na protestnom skupu pred zgradom vlade ucesnici su
cekali da im se obrati premijer Zoran �indic, kako bi objasnio za�to je
predlozen ovakav zakon, a da Milovanovic da ostavku. Za �indica i
njegovu vladu pripremljena je peticija sa 90.000 potpisa kojom se trazi
povlacenje zakona.
(Tanjug)
> http://wwww.ansa.it/balcani/jugoslavia/20011015190232015962.html
SERBIA: CEMENTIFICI IN VENDITA ENTRO FINE ANNO
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 15 OTT - Tutti e tre i cementifici appartenenti allo
stato serbo saranno venduti entro la fine dell'anno a dei partner
strategici, ha annunciato il ministro per la ristrutturazione economica
e le privatizzazioni Aleksandar Vlahovic. Fra le imprese straniere
interessate, stando all'agenzia Beta, vi sono Italcementi, Lafarge,
Holderbank, Heidelbergzement e la greca Titan, che ha gia' acquistato
in Bosnia l'impianto di Lukovac. (ANSA). OT
15/10/2001 19:02
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SERBIA: PRIVATIZZAZIONI, NUOVE GARE PER 12 GRANDI AZIENDE
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 15 OTT - Il governo serbo ha avviato una campagna di
informazione, pubblicizzata sul 'Financial Times', per la
privatizzazione di 12 grandi aziende del paese. Sono interessate in
particolare il settore agroalimentare (con la 'Hisar' e la 'Juzni
Banat', produttrici di frutta e verdure, la casa vinicola 'Vrsacki
Vinogradi', la 'Mitros', che tratta carni, e l'industria
dolciaria 'Ravanica') e le imprese edili (come 'Polet Ravnaja', 'Jelen-
Do', 'Kolubara Gasbeton', 'Prvi Maj-Lopovo' e 'Partizanski Put'). Le
nuove gare portano a 33 il numero di compagnie statali serbe messe in
vendita, e altre 11 societa' di medie dimensioni seguiranno a breve. Il
paese, ha sottolineato Mirko Cvetovic, funzionario del ministero per la
ristrutturazione economica, dovra' privatizzare 7.000 compagnie, di cui
300 con bando pubblico e il resto tramite aste. Altre 30 grandi
industrie - fra cui la casa automobilistica Zastava di Kragujevac -
necessitano di una seria ristrutturazione prima di trovare eventuali
partner. (ANSA). OT
15/10/2001 18:56
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S T A T E M E N T
by
H.E. Mr. Goran SVILANOVIC, Federal Minister for
Foreign Affairs
of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, at the 31st
Session of the General Conference
of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation
Paris, 18 October 2001
Mr. President,
Mr. Director-General, Excellencies
Distinguished delegates,
Ladies and gentlemen,
I am addressing you here today for the first
time since the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was
readmitted to UNESCO, convinced that my country is
ready to make full contribution to the principles and
purposes on which the Organisation was based. With the
assistance of UNESCO, we are all striving to build a
world in which the dignity of all Members and peoples,
mutual understanding and respect, interaction between
their cultural and spiritual values as well as solidarity
among them will be the fundamental values marking the
21st century. At the same time, we are aware of the
high complexity of the present political relations in the
world. Therefore, we believe that science, education
and culture could be essential bonds in a multi-faceted
cooperation and communications among all states in the
world, thus at least fulfilling some of the hopes and
aspirations of millions of people.
In this respect, the Yugoslav delegation stands
ready to cooperate fully with UNESCO and with other
countries in the implementation of the Organisation's
programmes. With this in mind, we have presented our
candidature for membership of the Executive Board.
This is my country's first candidature for a seat in a
body within the UN system since it was reintegrated
into international organisations. If we get your
confidence, we shall seek, in our overall activity, to
demonstrate our full commitment to the noble goals that
UNESCO stands for.
I would like to use this opportunity to thank Mrs.
Sonia Mendietae de Badaroux, President of the
UNESCO Executive Board, for the warm words
addressed at the opening of the General Conference to
my country.
Mr. President,
This General Conference coincides with the efforts
the international community is making to prevent and
combat terrorism. This time, I should like to reiterate
our condemnation of the unprecedented terrorist attacks
on the United States of America, to confirm our full
support for the anti-terrorism coalition and to express
once again our deepest condolences to the Government
and people of the United States of America. My
Government fully supports the recently adopted UN
Security Council resolutions 1368 and 1373 as well as
UN General Assembly resolution 56/1. Terrorism poses
a threat to international peace and security, and we
believe that all states should take measures to bring the
perpetrators, instigators and sponsors of such acts of
terror to justice.
In this context, the role of the United Nations is
central. We share the opinion of the Secretary-General
who, in his recent statement, said that "the United
Nations must provide a framework of shared values and
understanding, within which their free and voluntary
efforts can interact and reinforce each other instead of
getting in each other's way".
Regrettably, terrorists and terrorism are present in
the region of South Eastern Europe. In fact, terrorism is
closely connected with transnational organized crime,
human and drug trafficking, money laundering and other
similar crimes. This is seriously affecting the stability
of South East Europe as a whole. Evidently, there is a
need to enhance coordination and cooperation at the
subregional and regional levels in order to face this
challenge.
Ladies and gentlemen,
I cannot but use this opportunity to highlight the
problems of protection of the cultural heritage in Kosovo
and Metohija province which has been administered by
the United Nations since June 1999. Over the last two
years more than a hundred places of enormous historic
and civilisational values have been destroyed there,
despite the clearly worded provisions and a
commitment to implement the 1954 Hague Convention
on the protection of cultural sites in case of a military
conflict. There is an urgent need for assistance to
prepare a plan of action to protect from further
degradation medieval cultural and architectural sites
and to rehabilitate them. It is also hoped that UNESCO
will soon complete the initiated process and include in
its list of world cultural heritage some of the sites in
Kosovo and Metohija such as the monasteries De~ani
and Gracanica.
Not so long ago, UNESCO strongly supported the
restoration of the education system in the Albanian
language in Kosovo and Metohija. Similarly, we expect
UNESCO to help restore the Serbian-language
education there, as well as to recognize the need for
repairs to schools in numerous Serbian enclaves in
Kosovo and Metohija.
Mr. President,
In order to ensure a lasting peace in South-East
Europe, it is necessary, in our opinion, to contemplate a
regional approach through a reaffirmation of the
principles of the Helsinki Charter, namely inviolability
of borders, but also through the resolution of substantive
issues such as the issue of minorities. Such a political
programme needs to be followed by cooperation in
science, culture, education and information.
Education for all must be the priority of
cooperation among the countries of South-East Europe.
It will not resolve problems in the region of its own
accord, but it is certainly part of a long-term solution
through promotion of democracy and human rights.
By its history, culture and civilisation, the region
to which my country belongs has an important place
within UNESCO's programmes. It is a region for which
UNESCO should devise an even more coherent and
systematic strategy. Cooperation among the interested
Member States could be improved with the assistance
of other international organisations and UNESCO, with
a view to developing a unique regional cultural identity
based on their close historical and cultural ties. Such a
regional dimension, combined with such rich cultural
heritage, is connected with the efforts UNESCO is
making in the medium term strategy to promote culture
and communications in an age of globalization. It is
extremely important, therefore, to continue placing
emphasis on a dialogue between different civilisations,
cultures and religions, especially in the south-eastern
part of Europe, i.e. in the Balkans. Yugoslavia stands
ready to render its constructive contribution in this
regard.
The past decade has completely disintegrated the
network of cooperation and infrastructure of scientific
cooperation in the region of South Eastern Europe,
which has also adversely affected the broader scientific
community. Now, this network and infrastructure in the
region will have to be repaired and linked with science
institutions in Europe and the world in general. This
issue will be dealt with more extensively at a special
meeting of Ministers of Science and Technology of
South-East Europe to be held in a few day's time,
when important decisions related to the adoption of an
Action Plan of relevance for the development of the
region will be considered.
Protection of cultural diversity and promotion of
pluralism are not only the subject of UNESCO's
long-term work, but that is also an indispensable
condition for the development of truly democratic
societies where the human rights are guaranteed. The
new authorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
have done a lot in this respect as well. Nevertheless,
there is still room for further action. We expect that
UNESCO will render its practical assistance in the
preservation of specific cultural characteristics and
diversity. As a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and
multi-confessional country, we uphold the proposed
declaration on cultural diversity, which, if adopted at
this General Conference, will be the first declaration of
this kind on such an important issue.
Mr. President,
In conclusion, I express the hope that this General
Conference will adopt a significant number of decisions
reaffirming and further promoting the activities of
UNESCO aimed at addressing many problems within its
field of competence. The Yugoslav delegation will act
along these lines, wishing to contribute in this way to
the successful deliberations at this Conference.
Thank you, Mr. President.
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H.E. Mr. Goran SVILANOVIC, Federal Minister for
Foreign Affairs
of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, at the 31st
Session of the General Conference
of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation
Paris, 18 October 2001
Mr. President,
Mr. Director-General, Excellencies
Distinguished delegates,
Ladies and gentlemen,
I am addressing you here today for the first
time since the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was
readmitted to UNESCO, convinced that my country is
ready to make full contribution to the principles and
purposes on which the Organisation was based. With the
assistance of UNESCO, we are all striving to build a
world in which the dignity of all Members and peoples,
mutual understanding and respect, interaction between
their cultural and spiritual values as well as solidarity
among them will be the fundamental values marking the
21st century. At the same time, we are aware of the
high complexity of the present political relations in the
world. Therefore, we believe that science, education
and culture could be essential bonds in a multi-faceted
cooperation and communications among all states in the
world, thus at least fulfilling some of the hopes and
aspirations of millions of people.
In this respect, the Yugoslav delegation stands
ready to cooperate fully with UNESCO and with other
countries in the implementation of the Organisation's
programmes. With this in mind, we have presented our
candidature for membership of the Executive Board.
This is my country's first candidature for a seat in a
body within the UN system since it was reintegrated
into international organisations. If we get your
confidence, we shall seek, in our overall activity, to
demonstrate our full commitment to the noble goals that
UNESCO stands for.
I would like to use this opportunity to thank Mrs.
Sonia Mendietae de Badaroux, President of the
UNESCO Executive Board, for the warm words
addressed at the opening of the General Conference to
my country.
Mr. President,
This General Conference coincides with the efforts
the international community is making to prevent and
combat terrorism. This time, I should like to reiterate
our condemnation of the unprecedented terrorist attacks
on the United States of America, to confirm our full
support for the anti-terrorism coalition and to express
once again our deepest condolences to the Government
and people of the United States of America. My
Government fully supports the recently adopted UN
Security Council resolutions 1368 and 1373 as well as
UN General Assembly resolution 56/1. Terrorism poses
a threat to international peace and security, and we
believe that all states should take measures to bring the
perpetrators, instigators and sponsors of such acts of
terror to justice.
In this context, the role of the United Nations is
central. We share the opinion of the Secretary-General
who, in his recent statement, said that "the United
Nations must provide a framework of shared values and
understanding, within which their free and voluntary
efforts can interact and reinforce each other instead of
getting in each other's way".
Regrettably, terrorists and terrorism are present in
the region of South Eastern Europe. In fact, terrorism is
closely connected with transnational organized crime,
human and drug trafficking, money laundering and other
similar crimes. This is seriously affecting the stability
of South East Europe as a whole. Evidently, there is a
need to enhance coordination and cooperation at the
subregional and regional levels in order to face this
challenge.
Ladies and gentlemen,
I cannot but use this opportunity to highlight the
problems of protection of the cultural heritage in Kosovo
and Metohija province which has been administered by
the United Nations since June 1999. Over the last two
years more than a hundred places of enormous historic
and civilisational values have been destroyed there,
despite the clearly worded provisions and a
commitment to implement the 1954 Hague Convention
on the protection of cultural sites in case of a military
conflict. There is an urgent need for assistance to
prepare a plan of action to protect from further
degradation medieval cultural and architectural sites
and to rehabilitate them. It is also hoped that UNESCO
will soon complete the initiated process and include in
its list of world cultural heritage some of the sites in
Kosovo and Metohija such as the monasteries De~ani
and Gracanica.
Not so long ago, UNESCO strongly supported the
restoration of the education system in the Albanian
language in Kosovo and Metohija. Similarly, we expect
UNESCO to help restore the Serbian-language
education there, as well as to recognize the need for
repairs to schools in numerous Serbian enclaves in
Kosovo and Metohija.
Mr. President,
In order to ensure a lasting peace in South-East
Europe, it is necessary, in our opinion, to contemplate a
regional approach through a reaffirmation of the
principles of the Helsinki Charter, namely inviolability
of borders, but also through the resolution of substantive
issues such as the issue of minorities. Such a political
programme needs to be followed by cooperation in
science, culture, education and information.
Education for all must be the priority of
cooperation among the countries of South-East Europe.
It will not resolve problems in the region of its own
accord, but it is certainly part of a long-term solution
through promotion of democracy and human rights.
By its history, culture and civilisation, the region
to which my country belongs has an important place
within UNESCO's programmes. It is a region for which
UNESCO should devise an even more coherent and
systematic strategy. Cooperation among the interested
Member States could be improved with the assistance
of other international organisations and UNESCO, with
a view to developing a unique regional cultural identity
based on their close historical and cultural ties. Such a
regional dimension, combined with such rich cultural
heritage, is connected with the efforts UNESCO is
making in the medium term strategy to promote culture
and communications in an age of globalization. It is
extremely important, therefore, to continue placing
emphasis on a dialogue between different civilisations,
cultures and religions, especially in the south-eastern
part of Europe, i.e. in the Balkans. Yugoslavia stands
ready to render its constructive contribution in this
regard.
The past decade has completely disintegrated the
network of cooperation and infrastructure of scientific
cooperation in the region of South Eastern Europe,
which has also adversely affected the broader scientific
community. Now, this network and infrastructure in the
region will have to be repaired and linked with science
institutions in Europe and the world in general. This
issue will be dealt with more extensively at a special
meeting of Ministers of Science and Technology of
South-East Europe to be held in a few day's time,
when important decisions related to the adoption of an
Action Plan of relevance for the development of the
region will be considered.
Protection of cultural diversity and promotion of
pluralism are not only the subject of UNESCO's
long-term work, but that is also an indispensable
condition for the development of truly democratic
societies where the human rights are guaranteed. The
new authorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
have done a lot in this respect as well. Nevertheless,
there is still room for further action. We expect that
UNESCO will render its practical assistance in the
preservation of specific cultural characteristics and
diversity. As a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and
multi-confessional country, we uphold the proposed
declaration on cultural diversity, which, if adopted at
this General Conference, will be the first declaration of
this kind on such an important issue.
Mr. President,
In conclusion, I express the hope that this General
Conference will adopt a significant number of decisions
reaffirming and further promoting the activities of
UNESCO aimed at addressing many problems within its
field of competence. The Yugoslav delegation will act
along these lines, wishing to contribute in this way to
the successful deliberations at this Conference.
Thank you, Mr. President.
---
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