OSIJEK, Apr 20 (Hina) - Croatian Serb representatives believe NATO's air strikes against neighbouring Yugoslavia represent an attack on a sovereign country and people and a violation of the United Nations Charter and the Geneva
Convention. "This is already a lost war for NATO, because an armed attack cannot lead to a solution for the humanitarian crisis nor to a political solution to the Kosovo conflict," representatives of the National Council of Serbs, the Serb people's umbrella organisation in Croatia, and of the Serb People's Council told reporters in Zagreb on Tuesday. National Council of Serbs head Milan Djukic said Croatia's "sponsorship" of NATO's actions against Yugoslavia was very damaging for the national minorities living in both countries and for possible problems in the normalisation of Croatian-Yugoslav relations. By supporting the NATO strikes, Croatia
OSIJEK, Apr 20 (Hina) - Croatian Serb representatives believe
NATO's air strikes against neighbouring Yugoslavia represent an
attack on a sovereign country and people and a violation of the
United Nations Charter and the Geneva Convention.
"This is already a lost war for NATO, because an armed attack cannot
lead to a solution for the humanitarian crisis nor to a political
solution to the Kosovo conflict," representatives of the National
Council of Serbs, the Serb people's umbrella organisation in
Croatia, and of the Serb People's Council told reporters in Zagreb
on Tuesday.
National Council of Serbs head Milan Djukic said Croatia's
"sponsorship" of NATO's actions against Yugoslavia was very
damaging for the national minorities living in both countries and
for possible problems in the normalisation of Croatian-Yugoslav
relations.
By supporting the NATO strikes, Croatia has opted for a quicker
access to international associations which, Djukic said,
"indicates that the United States has a political protectorate over
Croatia, while in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (the U.S.)
wants to establish a military protectorate."
Djukic asserted Serbs in Croatia were "under great pressure
again."
Serb People's Council head Veselin Pejnovic said Croatia should say
"why it is ceding its territory for aggression against the part of
its citizens in the FRY", and why it is "unilaterally breaking the
inter-state agreement on the normalisation of relations."
Pejnovic assessed Croatia should rely more on Europe and the
European Union than on the U.S.
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