Platform against NATO's war in Yugoslavia (Belgium) (fwd)

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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:08:44 -0400
From: "Wes Rehberg (Strategic Pastoral Action)" <wrehberg@spanweb.org>
To: jmusselm_rpa@indiana.edu
Subject: Platform against NATO's war in Yugoslavia (Belgium)


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From: ExsulVolumniusDELETETHISTOREPLY@eroj.org
Reply-To: ExsulVolumniusDELETETHISTOREPLY@eroj.org
Subject: Platform against NATO's war in Yugoslavia (Belgium)
Date: 01-04-1999

Dear Friends,
You find below the "Platform of the Coordination against NATO's war in
Yugoslavia" from Belgium.
In solidarity,
Jean Pestieau
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  Stop the war, Stop NATO !
    Platform of the Coordination against NATO's war in Yugoslavia
    1. For the first time since Hitler in 1941, a military alliance is
throwing bombs on Belgrade. In flagrant violation of the international
law and of the UN Charter, NATO is attacking a independent state, which has
not threaten any neighbouring country and is doing nothing but defending its
territorial integrity. This aggression destroys deliberately the factories,
the infrastructures, the popular neighbourhoods of Yugoslavia and causes
thousands of casualties and hundreds of thousands of refugees.
    2. The humanitarian catastrophe that we see today is first caused by
NATO's bombings. Since the beginning of the bombings, there are every day
20,000 refugees more on average, that is 33 times more than the daily number
of refugees before the bombings. These people are also fleeing because of the
fights between the serbian army and police and the UCK (KLA), because of the
misery caused by the bombings, because of the rumours circulated by UCK and
NATO and because of terrorists acts.
    3. Ethnism and separatism, incited and supported by the imperialist
powers, have caused and are still causing terrible sufferings for all Yugoslav
populations. The member countries of NATO, which today are destroying
Yugoslavia, have done everything to prevent a political and peaceful
solution to the conflict. In a consistent strategy of "divide and rule",
they have supported and armed the separatists of UCK as well as the serbian
extremist nationalists. They imposed in Rambouillet an agreement that they
knew to be unacceptable for Yugoslavia, which can not conceive the presence
of NATO troops on its soil. Now they want to obtain by the war what they were
not able to reach in Rambouillet.
    4. The American and European leaders have turned NATO into an aggressive
alliance able to intervene everywhere at the service of the western
interests. The West wants to impose an unlimited expansion of its
multinationals as well as its absolute grasp over the extraction and
transportation of raw materials in all strategic regions : Balkans,
Middle-East, Caucasus, Russia... The goal of NATO is the achievement of a
New World Order based on the omnipotence of its member countries.
    5. For NATO, Yugoslavia is an obstacle to its total control of the
Balkans. This control is a necessary step towards interventions in the
former USSR. The Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Derycke, admits it
himself: "Kosovo is just a beginning. Today we are still on this side of
the chain of Caucasus but what will happen if the situation in Uzbekistan,
Armenia, Chechnya, Tajikistan explodes?" This expansionist and militarist
strategy of NATO constitutes a growing danger for the world peace.
    6. We oppose any kind of extremism and nationalist violence. Only
the peoples of the Balkans themselves, without any external ingerence, will
be able to solve their national problems. Any solution will have to be based
on the unity of the workers, whatever their nationality; on the respect of
sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries in the region; on
the equality and mutual respect between peoples and on the respect of the
rights of the minorities.
  We commit ourselves to promote peace by demanding:
   - The immediate halt of the war of NATO against Yugoslavia
   - The immediate withdrawal of the Belgian soldiers and war-planes
   - The withdrawal of all foreign troops and military bases from the Balkans.
   - The halt of NATO's extension to the East
   - The help in reconstructing and indemnifying Yugoslavia with financial
     means coming from the military budgets of NATO's member countries.
   - The help to all the victims of the war in Yugoslavia.
  We stand together with the people of Yugoslavia, who is fighting for the
sovereignty, the integrity and the dignity of its country.
   Stop the war, Stop NATO !
   Platform of the Coordination against NATO's war in Yugoslavia
   Coordination contre la guerre de l'Otan en Yougoslavie
            rue de la Caserne 68. 1000 Bruxelles. Belgium
           phone: -32-2-513.53.86. fax:   -32-2-513.98.31
                e-mail: peaceresistance@netscape.net
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