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107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 982
To prohibit assistance for Kosovo unless the President determines and cer-
tifies to Congress that residents or citizens of Kosovo are not providing
assistance to organizations engaging in or otherwise supporting eth-
nically-motivated violence in southern Serbia or in Macedonia, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 13, 2001
Mr. BEREUTER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on International Relations
A BILL
To prohibit assistance for Kosovo unless the President deter-
mines and certifies to Congress that residents or citizens
of Kosovo are not providing assistance to organizations
engaging in or otherwise supporting ethnically-motivated
violence in southern Serbia or in Macedonia, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stabilization and Pac-
ification of Southern Serbia Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) On June 10, 1999, the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) military air operation
in the former Yugoslavia concluded with the with-
drawal of all Serbian police, paramilitary, and mili-
tary forces from Kosovo, a province of Serbia.
(2) On June 9, 1999, the NATO-led inter-
national security force for Kosovo, KFOR, and the
Governments of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
and the Republic of Serbia concluded a Military
Technical Agreement which, among other things,
created a five kilometer (three mile) Ground Safety
Zone (GSZ) extending from the boundary of Kosovo
into southern Serbia in which forces, except regular
police, of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or Ser-
bia were excluded from entering without the express
permission of the commander of KFOR.
(3) During the winter of 1999–2000, incidents
involving the infiltration from Kosovo into southern
Serbia within the GSZ of ethnic Albanian guerrilla
forces, designated as the Liberation Army of
Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB), were
reported by KFOR.
(4) The declared objective of the UCPMB is the
liberation of the ethnic Albanian population of
southern Serbia from the authority of the Govern-
ments of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugo-
slavia.
(5) The tactics utilized by the UCPMB include
the assassination of Serbian police operating legally
within the GSZ and the intimidation of Serbian resi-
dents in order to induce them to leave the region.
(6) On December 17, 2000, United States and
Russian Federation troops serving in KFOR who
were patrolling the boundary with Serbia in order to
interdict the smuggling of arms came under attack
by ethnic Albanians attempting to infiltrate into the
GSZ from Kosovo.
(7) The Government of the Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia (Macedonia), a coalition that
includes representatives of the ethnic Albanian mi-
nority in Macedonia, has taken steps acknowledged
and applauded by the international community as
well as leaders of the Albanians in Kosovo to estab-
lish normal relations with Kosovo.
(8) On February 26, 2001, fighting erupted
along the border between Serbia and Macedonia in
the Macedonian village of Tanusevci between the
Macedonian Army and ethnic Albanians.
SEC. 3. POLICY.
It shall be the policy of the United States
Government—
(1) to promote a dialog between legitimate rep-
resentatives of the Albanian community of southern
Serbia and the authorities of the Republic of Serbia
and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia aimed at ad-
dressing the concerns of both the ethnic Albanian
residents of the region and those of the Serbian au-
thorities;
(2) to address the deteriorating security situa-
tion in the Presevo valley of southern Serbia in con-
junction with the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
tion (NATO), the NATO-led international security
force for Kosovo (KFOR), and the Serbian authori-
ties;
(3) to urge the authorities of the Federal Re-
public of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia to
work with the Government of the Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia (Macedonia) to find agree-
ment on a complete demarcation of the border be-
tween Serbia and Macedonia;
(4) to support efforts of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia, Republic of Serbia and the Govern-
ment of Macedonia to maintain security along the
agreed upon border;
(5) to support the establishment of an inter-
national observation and monitoring presence along
the Serbian-Macedonian border should such presence
be requested by the concerned parties; and
(6) to oppose any modification of the political
status of the Province of Kosovo unless and until—
(A) all ethnically motivated violence by
Kosovo Albanians against Serbian residents of
Kosovo has subsided; and
(B) all assistance by citizens or residents
of Kosovo to parties using violent means to fur-
ther separatist aims in southern Serbia or Mac-
edonia has ceased.
SEC. 4. PROHIBITION OF FUNDS.
(a) PROHIBITION.—No funds appropriated or other-
wise made available for assistance for Kosovo under title
II of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Re-
lated Programs Appropriations Act, 2001 (as contained
in H.R. 5526 of the 106th Congress, as introduced on Oc-
tober 24, 2000, as enacted into law by section 101(a) of
Public Law 106–429, and as contained in an appendix at
the end thereto), other than assistance for Kosovo under
the heading ‘‘INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL AND
LAW ENFORCEMENT’’, may be expended after June 30,
2001, unless, not later than such date, the President de-
termines and certifies to Congress that—
(1) residents or citizens of Kosovo are not pro-
viding assistance to the Liberation Army of Presevo,
Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB), or any other
organization engaging in or otherwise supporting
ethnically-motivated violence in southern Serbia;
(2) representatives of the leadership of the
major Albanian political parties of Kosovo—the
Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) led by Ibrahim
Rugova, the Party of Democratic Kosovo (PDK) led
by former KLA leader Hashim Thaci, and the Alli-
ance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) led by former
KLA Commander Ramuz Haradinaj—are positively
exerting their influence to halt ethnic violence within
Kosovo; and
(3) residents or citizens of Kosovo are not pro-
viding assistance to the Liberation Army of Mac-
edonia, or any other organization engaging in or
otherwise supporting ethnically-motivated violence in
Macedonia.
(b) WAIVER.—The President may waive the applica-
tion of subsection (a) if the President determines and cer-
tifies to Congress not later than June 30, 2001 that it
is in the national interests of the United States to do so.
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