BELGRADE FORUM FOR A WORLD OF EQUALS
24 March 2020
21 years since the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia
THE TIME FOR APOLOGY AND COMPENSATION
21 years ago, acting on its own and without the UN Security Council approval,
NATO carried out an armed aggression against Serbia, in gross violation of the
UN Charter, the OSCE Helsinki Final Act, a series of other international
conventions as well as of its own Founding Act of 1949.
The death toll of this aggression committed in collaboration with the terrorist
KLA was between 3500 - 4000 people (the final list has not been concluded)
including 89 children, with more than 12,500 additional people wounded. It
inflicted an enormous economic damage, whereas the use of missiles filled with
depleted uranium and other forbidden weaponry has permanently affected human
health and caused environmental devastation. From a defensive alliance, NATO
transformed into an offensive and interventionist one, in pursuing a clear
expansionist policy especially targeting the East.
This was, and remains, a crime against peace and humanity.
The aggression and the subsequent occupation of Kosovo and Metohija, illegal
establishment of Camp Bondsteel as one of largest US military camps in the
world, unilateral declaration of independence of a territory under United
Nations mandate, grave violation of UN SC Resolution 1244, individually and
collectively, make dangerous precedents and severe blows to the European and
the global security systems, and encourage the spreading od separatism and
terrorism, thus triggering unforeseeable consequences.
In a response to information that a number of Members of the Norwegian
Parliament and some other persons from the West raised initiative to award the
Nobel Peace Prize to NATO, the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, the Club
of Generals and Admirals of Serbia, and the Foundation United for the Youth
sent a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee ( www.beoforum.rs).
The letter of these Serbian organizations, offering facts and principled
evaluation of illegal aggression and NATO’s offensive nature has garnered wide
support and publicity in Serbia, the Serbian Diaspora, and abroad. Its integral
version was published in Serbia by respectable dailies, several news agencies
and many electronic media and social networks. It was translated into Russian,
German, Italian and published by numerous media in Italy, Switzerland, Russia,
Greece, the USA, and some other countries. The letter was endorsed by many
organizations and prominent persons throughout the world including, most
notably, the World Peace Council as an Associate Member of ECOSOC (a key UN
organ), which is based in Athens and acts as umbrella that brings together
thousands of peace organisations and peace movements from all continents.
Among the most esteemed international personalities and intellectuals, the
positions stated in this letter were endorsed by former French politician Yves
Bonnet, Russian politician and scientist Sergey Baburin, Finnish politician and
writer Pirkko Turpeinen-Saari, Italian writer Jean Toschi Marazzani Visconti,
American author and peace fighter Sharon Tennison, renowned Canadian diplomat
Ambassador James Bissett, and many more.
The Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, the Club of Generals and Admirals of
Serbia, and the Foundation United for the Youth re-launch their initiatives
asking the state authorities to request compensation for war damage from NATO
countries; to complete the list of all victims of NATO aggression in order to
prevent their fading into oblivion and put an end to public bickering
concerning their number; to launch the functioning of an inter-sectoral and
expert Governmental body tasked with determining the consequences of missiles
with depleted uranium which had been established a year ago; to activate the
flames of the memorial to victims of aggression in the Friendship Park in Novi
Beograd; to establish and build the Serbian Memorial for Victims of Genocide in
20 th century, resembling the ‘Yad Vashem’ Memorial in Israel and the ‘Ararat’
Memorial in Armenia.
The signatories hold the time has come for the governments of NATO and EU
member states to review their role in the aggression of 1999 and their policy
towards Serbia and the Serbian people, to apologise publicly for the victims
and the illegal devastation of Serbia (the FRY) and to revert to the
implementation of UNSC Resolution 1244 as the only acceptable and principled
basis for a just and sustainable peaceful solution for the future status of
Kosovo and Metohija as a Province exercising broad autonomy within Serbia. The
new trends in global relations, a new paradigm of reaffirming equality,
partnership, and the rule of the fundamental principles enshrined in the UN
Charter disapprove continuation of outdated policy of hegemonism pursued by the
Clintons, Albright, Blair and Schroeder.
The Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, Živadin Jovanović
The Club of Generals and Admirals of Serbia, General Milomir Miladinović
The Foundation United for the Youth, Prof. Dr. Danica Grujičić
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