Serbian League of Canada
Hamilton,ON
Canada
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
The Hon Peter MacKay
125 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2
April 30, 2007
Dear Hon. Minister MacKay:
As the president of the Serbian League of Canada I am writing to urge your
opposition to recognizing independent Kosovo relating to the Serbian
province of Kosovo and Metohija. If such policy were implemented, as
endorsed by your announcement (Apr. 2, 2007 - No. 54) regarding latest U.N.
envoy Maarti Ahtisaari's plan, it would mean the final eradication of the
Christian Serbian presence in Kosovo, which is the cradle of Serbia 's
national and spiritual life. It would also be a vain and misguided effort
to appease the violent demands by radical elements of Kosovo's Muslim
Albanian community, which would lead in turn to more violent demands in
nearby areas. At a time when Canada is leading the global effort against
jihad terrorism, this is a mistake we cannot afford to make!
An independent Kosovo, forcibly and illegally detached from democratic
Serbia, would be certain to become a rogue state dominated by radical
Islamic and organized crime influences. Since 1999, two-thirds of Kosovo's
Christian Serbs have been terrorized from the province, along with
comparable percentages of Roma (Gypsies), Croats, Gorani, and other groups,
as well as the entire Jewish community. Attacks against the dwindling
number of non-Albanian targets continue. Some 150 churches and monasteries
have been destroyed or desecrated and replaced with hundreds of new mosques
propagating the extremist Wahhabist version of Islam. Organized crime
rackets, connected to the Albanian mafia's operations throughout Europe, and
implicating the highest levels of the UN-supervised Albanian administration,
traffic in drugs, weapons, and slaves - women and even children. Testimony
of Dr. Artemije, Bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo-Metohia, to
the Canadian Parliamentary
Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter Van Loan on October 26,
2006, confirmed all of the above.
Finally, the policy endorsed by recognizing Serbian province of Kosovo as
an independent state violates the UN Charter and other fundamentals of
international law by seeking to detach part of a country's territory without
its consent. Instead of an illegal attempt to appease violence and threat
of violence from the Muslim Albanian community, Canada should be supporting
a balanced, negotiated, and legal solution that protects the legitimate
interests of all of Kosovo's inhabitants, regardless of religion or
ethnicity. Your wish that "Kosovo is a unique set of circumstances that
requires a unique solution", is only a wish that our Government could not be
able to afford as governing principle in international relations. We have to
carefully look how this situation might transpire in the World as well as in
our Canada. Please oppose detaching a 15% of Serbia and give it away. I
thank you for your urgent consideration of this matter.
Respectfully,
Dragan Dan Ciric
President
Serbian News Network - SNN
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