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NEW YORK - The U.N. human rights commission's special rapporteur on the former Yugoslavia Jiri Dienstbier has called for the lifting of all sanctions and bans against Yugoslavia.
In his latest report to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, which will be circulated as an official document among members of all General Assembly and Security Council committees, Dienstbier also urged the world community to offer the necessary humanitarian assistance to Yugoslavia.
Describing the critical situation in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province, Dienstbier warned that Serbs, Gypsies and other non-Albanians were the target of ethnic cleansing and that they were being killed, while their property was plundered and their houses torched.
He said that the problem was that all that was happening in the presence of the U.N. civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK), the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR and officials of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
He lashed out against leaders of the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), saying that they had formed parallel authorities in the province, ignoring UNMIK and decisions creating the basis for the functioning of both U.N. missions in the province - the security as well as the civilian.