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GENEVA - Head of the permanent Yugoslav mission to the U.N. Office in Geneva, Ambassador Branko Brankovic on Friday sent a letter to representatives of international organizations, underscoring that terrorists of the so-called KLA have been spreading terror over the non-Albanian population in Kosovo and Metohija for the past 10 years, not sparing even ethnic Albanian citizens who are loyal to the Republic of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
In spite of this, terrorists of the so-called KLA enjoy political and other support from a certain number of officials of the United States and certain European countries, which they secure mostly through money provided by the drug mafia, Ambassador Brankovic said.
"The government of the FR of Yugoslavia expects the most urgent engagement of the Security Council to the effect of full implementation of its Resolution 1244 (1999). In that sense, the Security Council has the obligation to undertake the necessary for KFOR, UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner to cease their activities which are providing legitimacy to the terrorists of the so-called KLA, giving them the opportunity to avoid responsibility for all terrorist acts they had committed so far and are still committing," the letter said.
The letter was sent to Vladimir Petrovsky, the Director General of the U.N. Office in Geneva, Mary Robinson, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Jiri Dienstbier, the Special Rapporteur on human rights in former Yugoslavia, Cornelio Sommaruga, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and George Weber, the Secretary-General of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Ambassador Brankovic sent the letter also to Sadako Ogata, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Secretary-General of the World Health Organization, Brunson McKinley, the Director General of the International Organization for Migrations, and Carl Bildt, the Special Representative of the U.N. secretary-general for the Balkans.
The letter said "open support to terrorists of the so-called KLA was particularly pronounced one year prior to the NATO aggression against the FR of Yugoslavia, during the NATO aggression itself, as well as after the aggression and in the presence of KFOR and UNMIK."
"As a 'reward for generous help' that terrorists of the so-called KLA gave to NATO aggressor countries in the course of the 78 days long barbaric bombing of the FR of Yugoslavia, KFOR, UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner are now trying to give legality to the so-called KLA and its terrorists by setting up the 'Kosovo Protection Corps'," the letter said.
"Such an activity undertaken by the KFOR, UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner is in function of securing the implementation of the already known plans of a number of NATO countries with a view to breaking up the sovereign and independent FR of Yugoslavia and attempts, as was the so-called Rambouillet agreement, to transform the territory of the FR of Yugoslavia into a NATO base," Ambassador Brankovic said.
It is a fact that the failure of KFOR, UNMIK and Bernard Kouchner in implementing Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) has created in Kosovo and Metohija an Eldorado for drug dealers, arms smugglers, for securing hide-aways for hardened world terrorists, and for the organization of terrorist activities not only in the Balkans, but in the wider area of Europe, Brankovic said.