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Nearly two months after the end of the March 24-June 10 aggression by the biggest military power of the modern world - the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) - on Yugoslavia and the heroic defence of the people and army of Yugoslavia, the ghost of Rambouillet and its ultimatum by the western powers is rising up again with the intention of enslaving the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its republic of Serbia, the Yugoslav army's Vojska magazine writes in a commentary entitled "Resurrection of Rambouillet, or how to whitewash criminals."
This is being done, primarily, with the help of the ordinary or garden variety political premise that any kind of peace, even that enjoyed in subjugation, is better than war, and that it had been futile to lay down lives in the defence of something that, according to the same wise-guys, we have still had to surrender, Vojska writes in its latest issue.
"Thus we come to the concept, already floated in the people, that the military-technical accord reached at Kumanovo is identical with the controversial Annexes II and VII to the Rambouillet paper. It appears that an effort is being made to minimise not only the true difference between the signed document and the offered ultimatum, but also the three months of glorious struggle in the defence of the homeland - the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia," Vojska says.
The author notes that differences between the two documents - the Rambouillet Annexes and the Kumanovo military-technical accord - are glaringly obvious.
"Firstly, under the existing Kumanovo accord, the peace force, which is under the UN flag to boot, is being deployed only in Serbia's southern province (of Kosovo-Metohija), which means that NATO cannot roam freely across all of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; and secondly, the (UN Kosovo-Metohija) KFor force is not made up only of NATO troops, but includes also troops from countries that are not members of that Alliance," the magazine says.
The text further says that no less significant are the provisions of the UN Security Council's Resolution 1244 about the territorial integrity and sovereignty of FR Yugoslavia in the entire territory of Kosovo-Metohija without any mention of the transitional periods suggested in the Rambouillet document, or any referendums on the status of that southern Serbian province.
"These documents clearly and unambiguously reaffirm the integrity and sovereignty of FR Yugoslavia throughout its territory, not as some casual or possible solution, but as the sole and fundamental solution of the whole UN mission to Yugoslavia," Vojska stresses.