APPEAL
OF THE RUSSIAN
INTERNET PARLIAMENT
TO PRESIDENT, GOVERNMENT AND FEDERAL ASSEMBLY
OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Dear Mr. President!
Dear Mr. Prime Minister!
Dear Delegates of the Federal Assembly!
We, the members of the Russian Internet-Parliament,
have arrived at the following conclusions, as a result of our joint analysis
of the situation in Yugoslavia.
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The existing international law qualifies as a barbarian aggression
the military action of the United States and the NATO countries against
the sovereign nation of Yugoslavia.
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The continuing and escalating bombing of Yugoslavia cannot
resolve that nation’s problems, but can only exacerbate them thus leading
to the dangerous destabilization of the political situation in Europe and
in the rest of the world.
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The true purpose of the ongoing military operation is far
from the declared one. No doubt, the military operation is now being conducted
not for the purpose of rescuing the ethnic Kosovar Albanians, but because
of the unwillingness of the US and NATO leadership to admit the faultiness
of the forceful approach to the solution of this ethnic problem.
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The major responsibility for the humanitarian catastrophe
in Yugoslavia rests on the United States government that has engineered
this aggression using its dominant position in NATO. It is also obvious
that the nations supporting NATO share its responsibility for this crisis.
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The Internet Parliament emphasizes that the violation of
human rights by both, the Yugoslav government and the illegal military
groups operating in Kosovo, should be viewed and qualified by the world
community from the position of the established international law. All the
individuals convicted of crimes must be sued in the court of law.
As a result of its long deliberation on the
Yugoslav crisis, the Russian Internet Parliament has issued the following
statement:
I. On the issue of its relations with the sovereign
Yugoslavia, the Russian government must:
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take the position strictly in line with the Declarations
of the Organization of United Nations;
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demand from the US government to immediately put end to its
military operations, unsanctioned by the United Nations;
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consider severing the diplomatic relations with the US, should
the US continue its military operation against Yugoslavia.
II. We consider it necessary to launch the criminal
investigations of the following activities:
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violation of the international law and treaties by the United
States government and by the Commander in Chief of the US military forces,
Mr. William J. Clinton;
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violation of the international law and treaties by NATO,
a regional military organization;
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instigating the humanitarian catastrophe on the territory
of Yugoslavia and its neighboring nations
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instigating the inter-native and inter-confessional enmity
(demonizing the Serbian nation, forming the subversive military troops
based on the national trait, assisting terrorist groups in penetration
into Yugoslavia);
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violation of the arms embargo against the KLA;
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killing the civilians and destroying the civilian targets:
bridges, trains, passenger carrying vehicles;
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instigating the ecological catastrophe by destruction of
chemical plants, deployment of weapons with the radio-active components
and practicing other destructive means of war likely to result in ecological
disaster on the European scale;
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destruction of the historical, cultural and architectural
monuments of value to the entire human civilization.
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