This aggression, which is taking place under the NATO label, constitutes a flagrant violation of the UN Charter and the principles of international law. It openly oversteps the competencies and duties of the Security Council. It represents the effort by the US to abrogate the role of agencies of international law, to practice its hegemony unhindered, and to intervene wherever and whenever it wants, using any means of destruction it chooses, however barbaric. 

While deploring all forms of national and religious oppression and ethnic cleansing, whatever their origin and by whomever they are practiced, we confirm that our peoples, who have suffered and continue to suffer from the hypocrisy of the US and the policy of double standards that it implements, are well aware that Washington’s real goals behind this aggression are, on the one hand, to continue the dismemberment of Yugoslavia in revenge for its historic role in supporting national liberation movements all over the world and because it continues to insist on preserving its national sovereignty and refusing to submit to the dictates of Washington and the demands of NATO; and on the other, to reinforce the US military presence in the Balkans, which Washington is trying to subjugate and control, so that the region may become the launching pad for bringing pressure to bear on Russia and for its encirclement, but also to work against Europe from the inside, and to obstruct the processes of unification that stand in the way of US hegemony. 

We demand an immediate end to this barbaric aggression and a return to the negotiating tables in search of a political solution that will achieve autonomy for Kosovo within the framework of a united and fully sovereign Yugoslav state.