- First a few points to entice you to read
it all.
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- Serbia's State of Kosovo is home to:
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- "The RICHEST MINES in ALL of EUROPE"
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- RICHER than we first thought, more in
future article.
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- The FULL TEXT of RAMBOUILLET, NOT KNOWN
to even MOST experts, contained provisions allowing NATO COMPLETE USE of
ALL of YUGOSLAVIAN AIR SPACE, ROADS, RESOURCES etc. When you read the article
below these excerpts you will see the plan for stealing that vast mineral
resources.
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- OFFICAL AGREEMENT see:
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- http://www.alb-net.com/kcc/interim.htm
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- EXCERPTS:
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- The text of Article 8 of this Appendix
reads: "NATO personnel shall enjoy, together with their vehicles,
vessels, aircraft, and equipment, free and unrestricted passage and unimpeded
access throughout the FRY [Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] including associated
airspace and territorial waters. This shall include, but not be limited
to, the right of bivouac, maneuver, billet, and utilization of any areas
or facilities as required for support, training, and operations."
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- Article 6 guarantees the occupying forces
absolute immunity: "NATO personnel, under all circumstances and at
all times, shall be immune from the Parties' jurisdiction in respect of
any civil, administrative, criminal, or disciplinary offenses which may
be committed by them in the FRY."
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- Article 10 secures NATO the cost-free
use of all Yugoslavian streets, airports and ports.
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- RAMBOUILLET
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- A 'peace' agreement designed to start
a war
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- By Richard Becker
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- The official line in the big-business
media is that the Pentagon had no choice but to rain bombs and missiles
down on Yugoslavia because the Milosevic government refused to negotiate
over the issue of Kosovo, a region of that country where ethnic Albanians
make up the majority.
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- The reality is that there never were
any negotiations. Instead, there was the "Rambouillet Agreement."
This was an ultimatum presented in France to the Yugoslav government that
gave it two choices: Sign or die.
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- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
and other top U.S. officials made the point over and over again that there
was no room for discussion of the terms of this document, which was drawn
up by "international mediators."
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- In February, to the surprise of the United
States, its allied Kosovo Liberation Army refused to sign the agreement.
This put the planned bombing war off for a few weeks--but only until the
deal was even further sweetened for the KLA.
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- On March 15, the KLA signed on to the
amended agreement. Yugoslavia was given a new deadline. The Yugoslav government
refused to sign and the U.S./NATO war was launched.
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- Washington deliberately crafted the Rambouillet
accord in such a way as to make it impossible for the Yugoslavian government
to sign.
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- A brief look at the accord reveals why
no independent government would have willingly accepted its remarkably
onerous and intrusive terms.
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- Features of the Rambouillet accord
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- Kosovo is today a province of the republic
of Serbia, which along with Montenegro makes up the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia.
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- The agreement provided for a type of
"autonomy" never before seen. Kosovo would have its own constitution,
president, prime minister, legislature and supreme court and be able to
make virtually all of its laws. The new "provincial" government,
as envisioned, would be able to overrule any federal laws it wished, unlike
U.S. states whose laws are subordinate to federal legislation. The Supreme
Court of the federal republic would be required to enforce legislation
passed by the Kosovo parliament.
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- Kosovo would also be allowed to conduct
its own foreign policy under the accord--something not granted to any other
autonomous region or state anywhere in the world.
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- All Yugoslav federal army and police
forces would have to be withdrawn, except for a three-mile-wide area along
the borders of the province. A new Kosovar police force would be trained
to take over internal security responsibilities. Members of the KLA, which
is supposed to disarm under the agreement, could join the police units.
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- In reality, however, neither the Kosovo
police, the KLA nor the Yugoslav federal forces would be the basic state
apparatus under Rambouillet. That function would be reserved for NATO.
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- A 28,000-strong NATO occupation army,
known as the KFOR, would be author ized to "use necessary force to
ensure compliance with the Accords," according to a U.S. State Department
fact sheet issued on March 1.
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- Nor would the new Kosovo executive, legislative
and judicial organs be the real government.
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- "The international community will
play a role in ensuring that these provisions are carried out, through
a civilian Implementation Mission, an ombudsman and constitutional court
judges selected under international auspices, OSCE/EU [Organization for
Security and Cooperation of the European Union] supervision of elections,
and an international military presence," said the State Department.
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- The Chief of the OSCE/EU Implementation
Mission (CIM) is given the authority to issue binding directives to all
parties on all matters, including the right to appoint and remove officials.
This is similar to the dictatorial powers given to the CIM in Bosnia under
the Dayton accords that Yugoslavia signed under duress in December 1995.
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- The Implementation Mission would also
have its own TV and radio stations, and be able to shut down and/or censor
other media, as it does in Bosnia.
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- Kosovo would be required to have a "free
market" economy. Kosovo has vast mineral resources, including the
richest mines for lead, molybdenum, mercury and other metals in all of
Europe. The capital to exploit these resources, which are now mainly state-owned,
would undoubtedly come from the United States and Western European imperialists.
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- After three years of this arrangement,
the "final status" of Kosovo would be settled. But in reality,
Yugoslav sovereignty over the region would end the day the agreement was
signed.
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- The Rambouillet accord would turn Kosovo
into a colony in every respect--a colony of the United States, the dominant
power in NATO.
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- Clinton, Albright and the rest of the
international predators who make up the U.S. national security apparatus
knew very well that there was no way the Yugoslav government could have
or would have signed on to such an agreement. Yugoslavia has a proud history
of resisting foreign colonization and domination.
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- Yugoslav Partisans tied down 55 Nazi
divisions during World War II and ended up liberating their country through
untold blood and sacrifice, suffering a death toll in the war seven times
that of the much-larger United States.
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- Rambouillet was never meant to bring
peace. It was, instead, a declaration of war.
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- How the Balkan war was prepared
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- Rambouillet Accord foresaw the occupation
of all Yugoslavia
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- By Peter Schwarz 14 April 1999
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- The refusal of the Milosevic government
to sign the Rambouillet Accord provided NATO with official justification
for its war against Yugoslavia. For a long time, however, the precise contents
of this accord were unknown. The Contact Group, responsible for the talks
at Rambouillet and Paris, had agreed to remain silent. The complete text
was only recently published on the Internet site of the Albanian Kosova
Crisis Center.
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- As can now be seen, the accord contains
provisions that would have subjected the whole of Yugoslavia to NATO occupation.
The official presentation repeatedly stated that it was a matter of autonomy
for Kosovo, which would be secured by the stationing of a "peace force"
in Kosovo. However, Appendix B, "Status of Multi-National Military
Implementation Force", grants NATO freedom of movement "throughout
all Yugoslavia", i.e., Serbia and Montenegro as well as Kosovo.
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- The text of Article 8 of this Appendix
reads: "NATO personnel shall enjoy, together with their vehicles,
vessels, aircraft, and equipment, free and unrestricted passage and unimpeded
access throughout the FRY [Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] including associated
airspace and territorial waters. This shall include, but not be limited
to, the right of bivouac, maneuver, billet, and utilization of any areas
or facilities as required for support, training, and operations."
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- Article 6 guarantees the occupying forces
absolute immunity: "NATO personnel, under all circumstances and at
all times, shall be immune from the Parties' jurisdiction in respect of
any civil, administrative, criminal, or disciplinary offenses which may
be committed by them in the FRY."
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- Article 10 secures NATO the cost-free
use of all Yugoslavian streets, airports and ports.
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- If the Yugoslav government had signed
the accord, they would have been relinquishing all claims to sovereignty
over their own territory. The Berliner Zeitung noted, "This passage
sounds like a surrender treaty following a war that was lost ... The fact
that Yugoslavian President Milosevic did not want to sign such a paper
is understandable."
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- The way in which the Yugoslav government
was called upon to sign this diktat--delivered as an ultimatum--and the
secretiveness regarding its content, suggest that the Rambouillet and Paris
conferences were aimed at providing a pretext for war, not a political
solution to the Kosovo conflict.
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- "An accord such as this could not
be signed by any head of a sovereign state," commented the radical
newspaper Taz, the first German paper to publish passages from the Accord
itself.
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- "If the talks had really had the
aim of producing agreement, and not merely trying to convince skeptics
of the unavoidability of NATO's attacks, then the text of the Accord is
incomprehensible."
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- The original proposal of the Contact
Group, which served as the basis for the Rambouillet Conference, did not
contain these passages. The negotiations were first supposed to deal with
the question of Kosovar autonomy, and only then take up the question of
the military measures to be implemented to carry this out. This was the
basis for the Yugoslav government participating in the conference.
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- In the course of negotiations, which
lasted from February 6 to 23, the five Western members of the Contact Group--the
US, Britain, Germany, France and Italy--moved openly to embrace the standpoint
of the Kosovar Albanians, who insisted on the stationing of NATO troops
inside Kosovo.
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- On the final day of the conference, the
final draft of the Accord was presented containing the Appendix B quoted
above.
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- From then on, the draft statutes covering
Kosovar autonomy--to which the Yugoslavian government had largely agreed--and
the proposals for stationing NATO troops inside Kosovo were characterised
as an "indissoluble packet". The Yugoslav delegation was given
the bald choice of either swallowing the ultimatum or rejecting the Accord
as a whole, which they then did.
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- To the surprise of NATO, the Kosovar
Albanians also refused to sign up. The conference was consequently adjourned
again, until the Kosovars signed the same text on March 18. NATO had obtained
the pretext it wanted to launch its attack. On March 24, the first bombs
were dropped.
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- It would appear that not a few politicians
who bear responsibility for launching the war were uninformed about this
sequence of events. They agreed to the attack on Yugoslavia without even
having read the text that was used to justify it. NATO's campaign of disinformation,
which has accompanied the war from its inception, is not only directed
at the general public, but at parliamentarians and senior state officials.
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- According to the Taz newspaper, which
made inquiries at the German Foreign Ministry, two of the three most senior
officials--State Minister Gunther Verheugen (a Social Democrat) and Ludger
Volmer (a Green)--were completely surprised. They claimed that the Articles
in Appendix B were "completely new" to them. The third official--Permanent
Secretary Wolfgang Ischinger--claimed that the passages came from an earlier,
no longer current, version of the Accord, which is clearly refuted by the
facts.
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- The Taz article asks, how much did Foreign
Minister Joschka Fischer know? They raise another possibility: "Did
the Federal Government deliberately pull the wool over the eyes of parliament
and the public"
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- Many parliamentary deputies have expressed
anger regarding the Government's game of hide-and-seek. The text of the
Accord was only officially presented to the German parliament last Thursday,
more than two weeks after the war had started.
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- Angelika Beer wrote a letter to her Green
Party colleague, Joschka Fischer, saying she would have spoken out against
the air attacks if she had known about the content of the Accord.
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- Social Democratic Party deputy Hermann
Scheer said, "If we had been able to read this paper as soon as it
was ready, then the argument that all political and diplomatic manoeuvres
had been exhausted and all that remains is the threat of bombardment would
not have been tenable."
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- Scheer accuses the Government of accepting
the fact that the USA exerts too strong an influence over NATO decision-making.
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- [the URL for the source document cited
in this story is:
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- http://www.alb-net.com/kcc/interim.htm
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of your Congressional and Parliamentary representatives, before it disappears!]
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