From: CP6uH@plains.NoDak.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Subject: Kosovo ( VREME NDA 22 Jul 1992 )
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:20:23 GMT
Organization: University of North Dakota at Grand Forks


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     "Vreme" News Digest Agency                       No. 43, July 20, 1992
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    Kosovo
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                         The Fear of Facing Each Other


    Dialogue  between  the  Serbs  and   the  Albanians  must  be  initiated
    eventually, but what should it be  like, what about, and where should it
    take  place? Both  sides are  aware of  its necessity  and of a possible
    compromise. Is there anyone prepared for  it at this moment, when war is
    still raging  in B&H, when  the Sixth Fleet  is in the  Adriatic and war
    threatens to  spread in Serbia as  well? Wouldn't a compromise  with the
    ethnic Albanians represent another defeat for the Serbian regime, for it
    has been  filling the heads  of its subjects  that it would  never yield
    before the demands of "the  secessionists". Neither are Kosovo Albanians
    at this moment  prepared for major concessions. Especially  because - as
    it is being claimed - they have been excluded from all segments of life.
    They say that  Serbia itself must provide the  preconditions for serious
    dialogue by reexamining its measures against Kosovo, to start with.

    Nevertheless, neither side  is hiding that the fact  that they are being
    strongly pressured by the  international community to start negotiations
    through compromise and  without bloodshed. For the time  being, there is
    not  a trace  of the  long announced  dialogue. Both  the authorities in
    Belgrade and the  Albanians in Pristina, in their  communication by fax,
    telegram and the press, express their "good will" in a way that makes it
    clear that the whole thing will show no result.

    The  Serbian   Government's  most  recent   reply  stresses  that   "the
    representatives of  the Albanian ethnic minority  in Kosovo and Metohija
    are not observing their obligation of loyalty to the state in which they
    live, as is stipulated in  international legal acts, but are insistently
    trying to achieve  their secessionist goals, i.e. the  secession of this
    province from the Republic of Serbia  and the FRY". The rejection of the
    claim  that Kosovo  was forcibly  annexed is  interpreted by the circles
    close to the  Coordinating Board of the Albanians'  political parties as
    proof that  the Serbian regime  is not prepared  to face the  truth, and
    that there is no  politically relevant ethnic-Albanian organization that
    would ever let Kosovo remain under Serbian yoke".

    "There is no Constitutional provision, in any constitution in the world,
    which  allows  one  federal  unit  to  abolish  another. Serbia deployed
    military forces  in Kosovo, abolished the  Parliament and the Government
    and all other institutions. Is that  not a classic example of annexation
    and occupation?", says Mr. Fehmi Agani, Vice-President of the Democratic
    Union of Kosovo.

    The Serbs  and Montenegrins in Kosovo  also think that in  the event the
    Serbian regime  "accepts dialogue as suggested  by Mr. Rugova, president
    of the so-called  Republic of Kosovo, it would  mean that Serbia accepts
    the legalization of the Kosovo state.
                                                               Violeta Orosi
                                                           Seljadin Dzezairi


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     "Vreme" News Digest Agency                       No. 43, July 20, 1992
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