SOME CRUCIAL REMARKS REGARDING THE DRAFT- PROJECT
                    INTRODUCED IN RAMBOUILLET (FRANCE)
 

 

ADEM DEMAÇI’S OFFICE FOR POLITICAL ANALYSES, PROPOSALS AND ADVISES      Tel&Fax: ++ 381 38 534 035 Tel&Fax: ++ 381 38   30 202 E-mail:  Demaci@albanian.com Prishtina, March 2, 1999


 

 We feel morally and historically obliged to point out again that this imposed Agreement of Rambouillet will not bring freedom to the Albanian people of Kosova and will not liberate Kosova from the Serbian slavery. We feel morally and historically obliged to show that unscrupulous propaganda of these days aims the deceit of the people by damaging the issue of the independence of Kosova.
 The independence and freedom are something completely different from this Agreement. This is not even close to what we have fought and we are fighting for. The efforts and the liberation war of the Albanian population in Kosova will not stop and cannot be stopped notwithstanding the fact whether this Agreement is signed or not or other similar agreements. No signings can extinguish the will of people and its readiness for sacrifice, for freedom and the independence of the Republic of Kosova. This agreement will not bring any peace or freedom in Kosova, in the contrary it will bring the continuation of bloodshed. All those that believe in this agreement, believe in the mercy and magic improvement of Mr. Milosevic.
 Those that sign this agreement make concessions to the Serbian regime and Milosevic, encourage him and bear responsibility for the consequences due to their weakness and illusions. It is true that diplomacy and politics are art of possibility, but the greatest possible victory of Serbian hegemony is to make Albanians define their freedom and independence as something impossible. Independence is not a dream, hope or illusion; it is a vision, a process which can not be stopped and a realizable political program. But those that agree with this agreement abandon the political vision and reduce it to a daily policy, which itself contains bad compromise that leaves the issue of our liberation and freedom in the middle of the way. Those that want to sign and accept this agreement, on behalf of the Albanian people, forgive their blood which can not be forgiven, they are forgiving to Serbian regimes all terrors, massacres and repressions perpetrated on the Albanian people since 1878. Also the signing of this agreement represents the first act of the international character in the history of the Albanians in Kosova, where the sovereignty and integrity of Serbia and "FRY" is internationally recognized towards the Albanian lands in Kosova, which until this eventual agreement Serbia and “FRY” did not and do not have.
The office of the Political Leader of the Kosova Liberation Army, Mr. Adem Demaçi, accomplished its work, activity and duties with honor, preciseness and high consciousness. It was based on and led its concepts, principles and convictions which are the materialization of political will of people of Kosova declared in Referendum in September of the year 1991. Our office and the KLA had the same principles, ideals and concepts. But things changed with the appearance of some individuals from KLA who are getting prepared to accept and approve this agreement. These individuals have abandoned the basic principles of KLA and the obligation toward the political will of people of Kosova declared in Referendum of the year 1991.
As we do not want our office to serve for contradictions within the KLA, we decided to change the character of the work of our office. We persistently protected and represented the liberation war of the Albanian people, led by the KLA, but due to the fact that this way of eventual signing of the agreement does not guarantee the independence of Kosova, we decided to withdraw.
We cannot bite this agreement as it is in opposition to our convictions and to our idea of life in freedom in our ancient land.

The office of Mr. Adem Demaçi
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ADEM DEMAÇI’S OFFICE FOR POLITICAL ANALYSES, PROPOSALS AND ADVISES      Tel&Fax: ++ 381 38 534 035 Tel&Fax: ++ 381 38   30 202 E-mail:  Demaci@albanian.com Prishtina, March 2, 1999


 

In the Draft-Project, Serbia and the Serbian regime are not identified as aggressor and occupier. With this Draft-Project, the International Community legalized the Serbian state aggression, when in 1989 it abolished the autonomy of Kosova. In this way, it is encouraging the appearance of terrorist and fascist regimes all over the world, since it is not sanctioning them. If this Agreement is signed, the Albanian population of Kosova will forgive all to Serbia, all that it has done for 121 years, since 1878. Here are some essential points, which come out of this pro-Serbian Draft-Project:

1. Kosova will have only the public security, not the state one. This means that our future police can chase the pickpockets and those working in black market, i.e., if during the transitory period of 3 years, an Albanian comes out in the street and hails: "Kosova Republic - an Independent state", the Serbian and Yugoslav Security (Drzavna Bezbednost - DB, former UDB) will intervene, arrest that person and sent him to Serbia in order to spend his life term in Serbian prisons. The well-known scenario will be repeated time and again: "our officials" will convince his mother that her son had made a mistake and force his brother to give up on him.

2. After the signing of this Agreement, we, the Albanians in Kosova, will not be treated as we are, as Albanian people, but as members of the Albanian national community in multi-ethnic Kosova, where the Serbian national community and others will live. Serbian national community will be in a position to block things, as the arbitration is arranged by proportion. According to this logic, why then Albanians in Presheva, Bujanovc and Medvegja, who are more than Serbs in Kosova, cannot comprise a National Community in Serbia? With the concept of National Community definitely, there will be no possibility for referendum because this will be in opposition to the international conventions and resolutions, as well as a national community can always consider that referendum threats its national interests.

With this eventual agreement Albanians for the first time with their own signature would accept the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia and “FRY”. Although Kosova was occupied and annexed violently from Serbs and Montenegrins, the confirmation or acceptation for this matter during the history was never given from the Albanians. While, now with eventual signing of this agreement, such shame will be done.
 
3. The fact that the KLA is not mentioned in the Agreement is intolerable and unacceptable. According to this Agreement, the KLA is treated on the level of the Serbian paramilitary units and others (no one knows what "the others" means) and not on the level of the "Yugoslav" Army or Serbian police, and that it must be disarmed within 120 days. It also must throw away its uniforms and the KLA emblem within 30 days. Serbian soldiers will remain in Kosova. Kosova was not declared a no-flight zone and the Serbian planes can continue to fly over Kosova.

According to the Agreement, the border zone will be 5 km. The idea of Serbia is to bring Serbian colonists along the border zone and so surround the Albanians, as Romania did with Hungarians in the past. Near 2 million Hungarians live in Romania with territorial continuation but they are surrounded by Rumanians. Without the KLA, we Albanians would be totally insecure. From the past, moreover, we have a very bad experience regarding the indifference and inability of the international troops to protect the population from the massacres, as it happened in Srebrenica and Zhepa. Whereas Lebanon and Somalia taught us that if endangered, the international troops can abandon the region and the population.

4. According to the Agreement, Kosova will be represented in the Parliament of Serbia and in the House of Citizens of the "FRY". Those that accept this Agreement, accept that the KLA soldier be disarmed, throw away his uniform, be a deputy in the Parliament of the Serbian occupier and sit side by side with the criminals, who ordered the massacre and mass executions of the Albanians. Kosova will not be represented in the House of Republics of the "Yugoslav" Federation, as it is not a constitutive element of the federation. According to the 1974 Constitution, Kosova was a constitutive element of the Federation, together with Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which are independent states now. In that time, an Albanian could be president of Yugoslavia in row-accordance. Its evident that this Agreement offers less than the 1974 Constitution. Montenegro with 400.000 Montenegrins, 150.000 Muslims and 50.000 Albanians enjoys more rights than Kosova with 2.000.000 Albanians (5 times more than Montenegrins).

Furthermore, according to this Agreement, Kosova is not identified with its borders, but it is mentioned as a multi-ethnic region, which contains a certain number of municipalities. So, Kosova is considered as a totally integrated part of Serbia.

5.  The municipalities have still lots of competencies. In a small turmoil, the municipality of Leposaviq might ask to be separated, whereas the international factors may come for an arbitrage, which can result with strange compromises, such as: autonomy within the autonomy! The competencies of municipalities and the concept of the national community in Kosova lead to the separation of Kosova and its territorial swallowing piece by piece from Serbian side.

6. This Agreement wants Albanians to recognize an in-existent state, "FRY", which is accepted neither by European Union nor the USA nor by any international organization. With the recognition of the so-called Yugoslavia, Albanians accept the status of minority in Yugoslavia and not anymore in the so-called Yugoslavia. In this way to ‘Yugoslavia’ will be open the ways to go back again in all existing international organizations and institutions.
 
7. In the economic aspect, the fact that Serbia will collect taxes is unacceptable. Kosova is not considered as an equal unit in succession of the wealth of the former SFRY, which was guaranteed to Kosova by the Item Nr.9 of the 4 August 1992 of the Badinter Commission. With the recognition of ‘Yugoslavia’, ‘Yugoslavia’ immediately will have the right in the succession of the wealth and to Kosova definitely this right will be eliminated. In every agreement to Kosova must be recognized the genuine right for the compensation for 150.000 workers who were dismissed violently from their jobs and  left in the edge of survival. To these workers must be returned the right for personal probation, insurance for disabled and compensation for other damages caused to the wealth of Kosova, including the war atrocities.

8. The sentence: "on the basis of the will of the people”, does not mean that it refers to the people of Kosova and consequently Serbia can make speculations and  cheating like always. Serbia can freely say that it refers to the will of the people of Serbia or "Yugoslavia", as Serbia and "Yugoslavia" are recognized as a state where the Kosovar Albanians live and realize their rights and obligations. We can have as many referendums as we want. We had one in September 1991. The point is that there is missing lack the International Community’s obligation for its recognition. Due to this fact the word referendum was not mentioned thereof, because this expression includes that International Community should organize, control and guarantee its results. It is not coincidental that in the same sentence where is mentioned the expression the will of the people, is followed by the call upon the Helsinki Final Act, which the right to referendum, conditions with the fact that we would not be recognized as nation and with inalienability of the borders and territorial integrity of the state.

9. What kind of value and logic has the Assembly of Kosova, which does not have right to any essential constitutional change? The term "Assembly" is unjustifiable when everything is predetermined and the representatives of the people cannot alter anything that is substantial for state elements. Which country in the world has a Constitution where 5% of the population defines the will of the majority?! How can such a norm be called democratic?!

10. Why the term "witness" is used instead of "guarantor" of the Agreement. Why the level of "those that witness" is so low: the level of the Ambassadors Hill, Petritsch and Mayorski?! Or is the prove an international collective security, where the above-mentioned Ambassadors appear instead of the state?! Every International agreement must be registered in the administration of the organs for international collective security with the evidence number and adequate date. All these international norms according to this agreement are not valid for the heroic Kosova and in this way Kosova is contemned and humiliated in illegal way.

The office of  Mr. Adem Demaçi