Bishop Artemije before the Heritage Foundation http://www.eparhija-prizren.com/vest_eng.php?id=19
Bishop of the Diocese of Ras-Prizren, Mr. Artemije, the leader of the delegation which arrived to Washington several days ago, upon being invited by the Heritage Foundation, has given his testimony before more than fifty representatives of non-government organizations and members of both the American Congress and Senate. Bishop Artemije was introduced by William Murray, who himself had visited Kosovo and Metohija after the pogrom of March 17, 2004, and had personally got acquainted with the level of sufferings of Serbian people and the damages of Christian sanctities. Ladies and gentlemen, as an arch shepherd of the Christians in Kosovo and Metohija, I have come to America again to testify of the sufferings of the Christians in Kosovo and to present what awaits us along this road. I have also come to ask you to help us change the direction of American politics which will, should it stay the way it is, condemn my people to extinction and create yet another state of evil and this time in the very center of Europe. As you certainly remember, since the war ended in 1999. Kosovo and Metohija have been under the protectorate of United Nations and NATO. Here, in America, it seems that everyone presumes that the whole operation ended successfully, and everybody has completely forgotten about Kosovo. However, before the eyes of United Nations and NATO, Kosmet has become the black hole of corruption and organized crime, including drugs, guns and people trafficking. Local Muslim Albanian administration is controlled by the terrorist organization, so called Liberation Army of Kosovo which is closely tied to the Muslim Albanian mafia which controls drugs and people trafficking all over Europe. Since 1999, AFTER the end of the war 220.000 Serbs and non-Albanians have forcefully left Kosovo and Metohija; more than 1.000 Serbs were killed and more than 150 churches and monasteries, many of which were medieval, were destroyed. With every new day Kosovo loses the physiognomy of a Christian country with numerous churches and monasteries, and more and more it resembles a Muslim country filled with mosques. This transformation is a direct result of the violence and the threat of violence. In the meantime, hundreds of mosques have been built and are still being built, mostly funded by Saudi Arabia and the countries of the Persian Gulf. And now, conducting the politics directly inherited from the previous administration, some American government officials demand very strongly that my country, Serbia, gives a part of its territory to this extremist Islamic movement. Separation of Kosovo and Metohija, an integral part of the democratic Serbia, from its home country, would mean the condemnation of my people to extinction in that part of the country and creation of one country of evil, the government of which would be under the control of the terrorists. I cannot understand why the official representatives of America want that. Perhaps they think it would leave the good impression on Islamic countries. This is not only our problem. This is your problem, too. Recently indicted war criminal Agim Ceku, now the head of the Muslim Albanian administration, has been accepted in the White House and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with great honors. In the times when America is leading the whole free world in the global fight against jihad terror, Kosmet must not remain an exception, a country where, for reasons incomprehensible to us, the representatives of the American government stay side by side with the criminal and jihad. Sacrifice of our country and our blood will not protect you from jihad. The fact is this, the answer of my country to any request of yours to renounce Kosovo will be NO, no matter how strong the pressure from Washington, or London or Brussels might be. All our politicians, all our parties will say: there is no hand that will sign the surrender of Kosovo. What I ask of you today is to raise your voice and ask your government to reconsider its politics, which is as bad for America as it is for Serbia. I plead you to tell the president Bush and secretary Condoliza Rice that this is the politics that should be reconsidered. After this speech, Bishop Artemije supplemented his presentation by answering numerous questions provoked by his testimony. Bishop Artemije along with the members of the delegation which consists of the members of Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija, Mrs. Rada Trajkovic and Mr. Dragan Velic, as well as the professor of the Faculty of Political Science Mr. Miroljub Jevtic and the prior of Banjska monastery Simeon also met with the Ambassador of Serbia in Washington Mr. Ivan Vujacic, and after that, the representatives of the Congress of Serbian Union. Diocesian Press Department ======================== http://www.eparhija-prizren.com/vest_eng.php?id=21 Listen to Jim Jatras interview at the Don Kroah Show Jim is an attorney at the Venable law firm in Washington, DC. For many years Jim was a policy analyst for the Republican Leadership in the US Senate, and before that served as a diplomat with the State Department. On Monday, he will be on the Don Kroah Show to talk about Kosovo. It seems that a lot of people here may have forgotten about Kosovo but that doesn't mean the problem has gone away. In fact, it's getting a lot worse. As Jim will tell us, Kosovo's Orthodox Christian Serbian community -- of which Jim is the authorized representative -- is facing extinction at the hands of a violent jihad movement if Kosovo is detached from Serbia and made an independent country. To listen to the interview, just click on to link below. http://wabs.wava.com/ram/dks/dks20060717-2.ram and www.serbianna.com ============= ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/1dTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> =============== Group Moderator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] page at http://magazine.sorabia.net for more informations about current situation in Serbia http://www.sorabia.net Slusajte GLAS SORABIJE nas talk internet-radio (Serbian Only) http://radio.sorabia.net Yahoo! 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