__ From: Babis Angourakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Communist Party of Greece Subject: Press Release SPS Belgrade January 8th 2000, Belgrade Press Release Socialist Party of Serbia is of the opinion that the position of the Yugoslav Foreign Affairs Minister Mr. Goran Svilanovic, taken at the talks with the outgoing American administration, regarding readiness of Yugoslavia to co-operate in commencing of the Hague Tribunal proceedings is directly contrary to the national interest of the Serb people and the state interest of both Serbia and Yugoslavia. Such a position is also contrary to the statements of the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Mr. Vojislav Kostunica and of the Federal Prime Minister Mr. Zoran Zizic, both asserting that Hague Tribunal is a political court. Yugoslav Minister of Foreign Affairs, encountering an administration that waged a criminal and illegal war against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and that committed massive crimes against citizens of Yugoslavia, shifts all the blame to his own people and accepts collective, complete and only guilt for all that transpired at the territories of former Yugoslavia, even though Serbs were the utmost victims of the secession, separatism and terrorism. Acceptance of one political Tribunal to try defenders of the fatherland is nothing but renunciation of state�s and people�s right of self-defence. At the same time, Albanian terrorist sentenced by courts are freed, while at Kosovo and Metohia persecution, killing and kidnapping of Serbs continues, and Albanian terrorism is spreading to the south of Serbia. Such Svilanovic�s statements are not only alibi and amnesty for crimes done to Serbs but also disgraceful message that it was an error that Serb people defended their country and that nation was protected. That is more than clear message to all those who will, in near or distant future, be in the position to defend the country again, that they will be held responsible in some new tribunal set aside for Serbs only. For that reason, and not for any individual person, it is of historical importance that Serbs, wherever they may reside and all the citizens of Serbia and Yugoslavia, regardless of their political differences, sympathies or hatred, preserve national consensus that defence of the country may not and could not be a crime and that Serbs, Serbia and Yugoslavia in the course of all these years did not cause nor committed any crimes against other peoples and states. To the contrary. That�s why such statements of the Yugoslav Foreign Affairs Minister are damaging for Serbia and for Yugoslavia as well as for the Serb people as a whole. Press Service of the Head Committee of the SPS _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
