The Steering Committee of the Association of State Green Parties in the United States endorses the following declaration from the European Federation of Green Parties and condemns the pressure for violent military action that is coming from our government. We acknowledge the difficulty of solving this conflict with negotiations, but the same depth of antagonism that makes progress with negotiations difficult, makes progress with violence impossible.
Violence is what feeds the centuries-old conflicts in Kosovo.
As stated by our European partners, the bombing of Serbia will only serve to cut off any possibility for diplomatic progress, as it did in Iraq after the December bombing. The withdrawal of OSCE observers will open the gates for an escalation of the conflict, and NATO bombing will only increase that. Our hopes go out to our friends in the Green Ecological Party of Serbia and all the citizens of Serbia and Kosovo. The European Greens supported the political aims of the Kosova negotiations. The European Greens urge the Belgrade government not to conduct any military action and the UCK to restrain from violence.