Recommendations

The Albanian American Civic League urges all friends of democracy and human rights to join in support of the following recommendations:

1. President Bush and Department of State should continually raise the issue of Serbian human rights abuses and violation of the Helsinki Accords in all international forums, such as the United Nations Human Rights Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

2. The United States should demand the creation of a United Nations Commission of Inquiry to study, convene public hearings and report on the situation in Kosova, as soon as possible.

3. The United States government should refuse any further aid and Ex-Im Bank loan guarantees to Yugoslavia, and decline to support loans from the IMF and World Bank, until the Serbian government restores full human rights to the Kosovars, permits democratic self-government in Kosova, releases all political prisoners and withdraws army and state terrorist units from Kosova.

4. The United States government ought to express its support for the creation of Kosova as a full Republic within the Yugoslav federation or confederation, including a special effort to encourage economic growth, health care and educational opportunity within Kosova once that status has been achieved.

5. Organizations fostering freedom and democracy in the world ought to make a special effort to reach out to kosova’s Albanian democratic leaders, inviting them to international conferences where their story can be more widely heard.

6. The Voice of America and Radio Free Europe should make a special effort to bring the facts of Serbian repression in Kosova to all their European listeners.

 

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