[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 13 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 13

Expressing the sense of the Congress that Serbia-Montenegro has failed 
 to comply with the Holbrooke-Milosevic agreement of October 13, 1998, 
and that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should implement 
    its activation order of October 12, 1998, to compel compliance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 19, 1999

 Mr. Engel (for himself, Mr. King, Mr. Olver, Mrs. Kelly, Mr. Moran of 
    Virginia, Mr. McGovern, and Mr. Hoyer) submitted the following 
     concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                        International Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the Congress that Serbia-Montenegro has failed 
 to comply with the Holbrooke-Milosevic agreement of October 13, 1998, 
and that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should implement 
    its activation order of October 12, 1998, to compel compliance.

Whereas on October 13, 1998, United States Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and 
        Serbia-Montenegro President Slobodan Milosevic reached an agreement on a 
        cease-fire in the Kosova conflict, allowing North Atlantic Treaty 
        Organization (NATO) forces, which had been prepared to employ air power 
        under the activation order of October 12, 1998, to halt Milosevic's 
        ethnic cleansing of Kosova, to stand down;
Whereas under the Holbrooke-Milosevic agreement and United Nations Security 
        Council Resolutions 1160 and 1199, numerous units of the Yugoslav 
        National Army, Serbian police, and Special Forces were to be removed 
        from Kosova or withdrawn to bases to reestablish ``pre-crisis'' force 
        levels, but according to the Department of State and published reports, 
        many of these units remain in Kosova, are returning, or have already 
        reengaged in offensive operations;
Whereas under the Holbrooke-Milosevic agreement, Milosevic was to grant a 
        general amnesty for those who had been involved in the Kosova conflict, 
        but such an amnesty was never implemented and up to 2,000 ethnic 
        Albanians remain in Serbian jails;
Whereas under the Holbrooke-Milosevic agreement and United Nations Security 
        Council Resolutions 1160 and 1199, Serbia-Montenegro is to fully 
        cooperate with the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, but 
        has denied entry to the Tribunal's chief investigator, Louise Arbour, 
        and other tribunal representatives;
Whereas under the Holbrooke-Milosevic agreement, 2,000 international verifiers 
        of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) are 
        permitted to monitor compliance with the Holbrooke-Milosevic agreement 
        and other obligations, but impediments to their mission have been 
        imposed by the Government of Serbia-Montenegro according to the 
        mission's leader, United States Ambassador William Walker;
Whereas on January 18, 1999, Serbia-Montenegro ordered Ambassador Walker to 
        leave the country;
Whereas the Government of the Republic of Montenegro has welcomed Ambassador 
        Walker in Montenegro despite Serbia-Montenegro's order for him to leave 
        the country, and has stated that the refusal to allow Louise Arbour to 
        enter Kosova further strains Serbia-Montenegro's relationship with the 
        international community;
Whereas under the Agreement on the OSCE Kosova Verification Mission signed on 
        October 16, 1998, by the OSCE and Serbia-Montenegro, Serbia-Montenegro 
        guaranteed the safety and security of the Verification Mission and all 
        its members, but on January 15, 1999, a British monitor and his 
        translator were wounded by gunfire;
Whereas there have been numerous reports of atrocities committed by the military 
        forces and police of Serbia-Montenegro since the Holbrooke-Milosevic 
        agreement, including the brutal murders of at least 45 ethnic Albanians 
        in Racak, Kosova, in January 1999; and
Whereas NATO's activation order of October 12, 1998, remains in place should 
        military force be necessary to compel Serbia-Montenegro to halt its 
        ethnic cleansing of Kosova and comply with the Holbrooke-Milosevic deal 
        and other international obligations: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) Serbia-Montenegro has failed to comply with the 
        Holbrooke-Milosevic agreement of October 13, 1998, and other 
        international obligations; and
            (2) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should 
        implement its activation order of October 12, 1998, which 
        authorizes and prepares alliance air forces to compel Serbia-
        Montenegro to comply with the Holbrooke-Milosevic agreement and 
        other international obligations.
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