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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. CON. RES. 65
Expressing the sense of the Congress in support of Dr. Ibrahim Rugova,
President of the Republic of Kosova.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 16, 1993
Mr. ENGEL (for himself, Ms. MOLINARI, and Mr. BONIOR) submitted the fol-
lowing concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of the Congress in support of Dr.
Ibrahim Rugova, President of the Republic of Kosova.
Whereas the political rights of the Albanian majority in
Kosova were curtailed in 1989 when the government in
Belgrade illegally amended the Yugoslav federal constitu-
tion to revoke the autonomy which Kosova had thereto-
fore enjoyed;
Whereas in September 1990 a referendum on the question of
independence for Kosova was held in which 87 percent of
those eligible to participate voted, and 99 percent of
those voting supported independence for Kosova;
Whereas in May 1992 Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was overwhelm-
ingly elected to be President of the Republic of Kosova;
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Whereas in May 1992 a Kosovar national parliament was
elected;
Whereas the government in Belgrade has not allowed the new
Kosovar government to assemble on Kosovar territory;
Whereas since 1990 thousands of Kosovars of Albanian ori-
gin have been dismissed from their jobs solely on the
basis of their ethnicity;
Whereas the government in Belgrade has severely restricted
the access of ethnic Albanians to all levels of education
solely on the basis of their ethnicity;
Whereas the University of Prishtina accepts equal numbers
of students from the ethnic Albanian and ethnic Serbian
communities despite the fact that ethnic Albanians com-
pose 90 percent of the population of Kosova;
Whereas all forms of the media in Kosova are strictly con-
trolled by the government in Belgrade and dissenting po-
litical views are systematically deleted from all forms of
the media;
Whereas those expressing political views in opposition are fre-
quently jailed, and tortured while in prison, by the Ser-
bian authorities;
Whereas credible reports of Serbian ‘‘ethnic cleansing’’ in
Kosova have been received;
Whereas Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic has called for the
transfer of ethnic Albanians from their homes in Kosova
to areas outside Kosovar territory and their replacement
by Serbs; and
Whereas President Rugova has proposed a Ten Point Plan
for Peace which calls for the following: deploying inter-
national peacekeeping forces to Kosova immediately; in-
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creasing the number of Commission on Security and Co-
operation in Europe human rights monitors in Kosova;
expanding the United Nations ‘‘no fly’’ zone to include
Kosova; disarming Serbian paramilitary units in Kosova
and placing Serbian heavy weapons under international
control; ending Serbian colonization of Kosova; ending
the ‘‘ethnic cleansing’’ already underway in Kosova; the
reopening of the Prishtina Airport for humanitarian relief
flights; freedom for the freely elected Assembly of Kosova
to meet; exempting Kosova from international sanctions
directed at Serbia; and releasing the $5,000,000 in hu-
manitarian aid appropriated by the Congress in 1992:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that—
(1) the United States Government should em-
ploy all means necessary to ensure that the govern-
ment in Belgrade discontinues and does not escalate
its policy of ‘‘ethnic cleansing’’ in Kosova;
(2) the continued repression by the government
in Belgrade of citizens of Kosova must be halted
immediately;
(3) all individuals in Kosova whose employment
was terminated on the basis of their ethnicity should
be reinstated to their previous positions immediately;
(4) the educational system in Kosova should be
reopened to all residents of Kosova regardless of eth-
nic origin, and the majority ethnic Albanian popu-
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lation should be allowed to be educated in their
native tongue; and
(5) President Rugova’s Ten Point Plan for
Peace should be fully implemented.
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