UN General Assembly
1993

factor in the former Yugoslavia, especially the Kosovo issue, is of a crucial importance to finding an equitable and lasting solution to the crisis. Therefore, we insist that this problem has to be properly addressed. If, in assessing this factor, there is insistence on the rigid position that Kosovo is an integral part of Serbia, that it is annexed to Serbia and that the Albanian people in the former Yugoslavia are a minority, then nothing will be achieved, but the idea of creating a "Greater Serbia" will be reconfirmed and legalized at the expense of other peoples. We think that the breakup of the former Yugoslavia - which was also the cause of what is now called the Yugoslav crisis - puts the issue of succession in the former Yugoslav federation in an entirely new light: it brings up the question of considering the peoples’ right of self-determination, and the expression of their free will as to their political status. If this means war, as some people think, then it is up to the United Nations and the Security