[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 65 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 65

Expressing the sense of the Congress in support of Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, 
                  President of the Republic of Kosova.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 1993

  Mr. Engel (for himself, Ms. Molinari, and Mr. Bonior) submitted the 
following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                            Foreign Affairs

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the Congress in support of Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, 
                  President of the Republic of Kosova.

Whereas the political rights of the Albanian majority in Kosova were curtailed 
        in 1989 when the government in Belgrade illegally amended the Yugoslav 
        federal constitution to revoke the autonomy which Kosova had theretofore 
        enjoyed;
Whereas in September 1990 a referendum on the question of independence for 
        Kosova was held in which 87 percent of those eligible to participate 
        voted, and 99 percent of those voting supported independence for Kosova;
Whereas in May 1992 Dr. Ibrahim Rugova was overwhelmingly elected to be 
        President of the Republic of Kosova;
Whereas in May 1992 a Kosovar national parliament was elected;
Whereas the government in Belgrade has not allowed the new Kosovar government to 
        assemble on Kosovar territory;
Whereas since 1990 thousands of Kosovars of Albanian origin have been dismissed 
        from their jobs solely on the basis of their ethnicity;
Whereas the government in Belgrade has severely restricted the access of ethnic 
        Albanians to all levels of education solely on the basis of their 
        ethnicity;
Whereas the University of Prishtina accepts equal numbers of students from the 
        ethnic Albanian and ethnic Serbian communities despite the fact that 
        ethnic Albanians compose 90 percent of the population of Kosova;
Whereas all forms of the media in Kosova are strictly controlled by the 
        government in Belgrade and dissenting political views are systematically 
        deleted from all forms of the media;
Whereas those expressing political views in opposition are frequently jailed, 
        and tortured while in prison, by the Serbian authorities;
Whereas credible reports of Serbian ``ethnic cleansing'' in Kosova have been 
        received;
Whereas Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic has called for the transfer of ethnic 
        Albanians from their homes in Kosova to areas outside Kosovar territory 
        and their replacement by Serbs; and
Whereas President Rugova has proposed a Ten Point Plan for Peace which calls for 
        the following: deploying international peacekeeping forces to Kosova 
        immediately; increasing the number of Commission on Security and 
        Cooperation in Europe human rights monitors in Kosova; expanding the 
        United Nations ``no fly'' zone to include Kosova; disarming Serbian 
        paramilitary units in Kosova and placing Serbian heavy weapons under 
        international control; ending Serbian colonization of Kosova; ending the 
        ``ethnic cleansing'' already underway in Kosova; the reopening of the 
        Prishtina Airport for humanitarian relief flights; freedom for the 
        freely elected Assembly of Kosova to meet; exempting Kosova from 
        international sanctions directed at Serbia; and releasing the $5,000,000 
        in humanitarian aid appropriated by the Congress in 1992: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that--
            (1) the United States Government should employ all means 
        necessary to ensure that the government in Belgrade 
        discontinues and does not escalate its policy of ``ethnic 
        cleansing'' in Kosova;
            (2) the continued repression by the government in Belgrade 
        of citizens of Kosova must be halted immediately;
            (3) all individuals in Kosova whose employment was 
        terminated on the basis of their ethnicity should be reinstated 
        to their previous positions immediately;
            (4) the educational system in Kosova should be reopened to 
        all residents of Kosova regardless of ethnic origin, and the 
        majority ethnic Albanian population should be allowed to be 
        educated in their native tongue; and
            (5) President Rugova's Ten Point Plan for Peace should be 
        fully implemented.

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