Dear Friends,
You find below the «Platform of the Coordination against NATO's war in
Yugoslavia» from Belgium.
In solidarity,
Jean Pestieau
Stop the war, Stop NATO!
Platform of the Coordination against NATO's war in Yugoslavia
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 militarybudgets 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
Write to: 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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Lorenzo Peña
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Director de ESPAÑA ROJA
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Lorenzo Peña
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Director de ESPAÑA ROJA