Cuba's statement on Yugoslavia
From a Cuban statement on the Yugoslavia crisis read at a
March 26 United Nations Security Council meeting. Omitted
sections referred to the Security Council's role.
After a number of painful and much manipulated political
events, prolonged armed clashes, as well as complex and little
transparent negotiations on the Kosovo issue, the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization finally launched its announced and
brutal air raid against the current Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia., whose peoples made a special contribution to the
struggle against fascism. ...
The war launched by NATO stirs humanity's well-grounded
fears over the structuring of an outrageous unipolarism ruled
by a warmongering empire, self-appointed as world police, and
capable of dragging its political and military allies into the
craziest actions, as was the case early in this century and
during its first half, with the setting up of warlike blocs
that swept Europe with death and poverty, dividing and
weakening it, while the United States strengthened its
economic, political and military might. ...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
strongly condemns this U.S.-led NATO aggression against
Yugoslavia, and denounces the dark maneuvers that led to such
uncivilized practices' continuing to prevail in the
international political arena for the purpose of satisfying the
interests of those who insist on imposing their designs on
every state on the planet, in the name of a new and ignominious
world order, shaped up after its image and likeness.
At this moment of grief and pain for the peoples of
Yugoslavia, Cuba calls on the international community to
mobilize its efforts to immediately put an end to this
unjustified aggression and to prevent new and more regrettable
losses of innocent lives, allowing this nation to retake the
peaceful path of negotiation toward a settlement of its
internal problems, something that depends solely and
exclusively on the sovereign will and self-determination of the
Yugoslav peoples.
Cuba expresses its concern on the aggression's possibility
of unpredictably spreading the conflict to other states in the
region, both because of the expansion of violence and because
of its convulsive social and human effects. ...
Continuing along this path could lead to an unpredictable
outcome for Europe and for all humankind. We are living in a
shameful time of breach of international legality. Never before
had the unipolar order imposed by the United States been so
obvious and so irritating. ...
The areas of aerial exclusion, the missiles in Kabul, in
Khartoum, in Tripoli, in Baghdad, in Bengasi, and now in
Pristina, Pancevo, and elsewhere, remind us of the harsh
realities of "global disorder." ...
No one can forget in these tragic circumstances, in which
the destiny of us all is at stake, the historic contribution of
Serbia during World War II, when her people, most heroically,
fought against the Nazi hordes in occupied Europe.
Humankind cannot be stripped of its memory, however
intoxicated it may be with technology in the service of lies,
or television in the service of war. It must be recalled, here
and now--because it is a fact--that these are the bitter fruits
of a conspiracy to destroy the former Yugoslavia; and that is
what is at the root of this conflict and of the grave events
that we are living. ...
Cuba hopes that, without delay--because every minute costs
lives--an end will be put to armed aggressions against the
current Yugoslavia, and that there will be a resumption of
negotiations as the only way to reach a just and lasting peace,
as a precondition for full respect for the rights and the
dignity of all ethnic groups, all peoples and religions of
those who once, after the Nazi aggression and genocide, shared
a broad and fraternal federation of nations.
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