[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 24, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H1602]
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         CALLING ON MR. MILOSEVIC TO SEEK A DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION

  (Mr. LANTOS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, few people have suffered as much during the 
Second World War as did the people of Serbia. I am calling on Mr. 
Milosevic, who has brought so much anguish and hardship and trouble to 
his own people, to take these last moments before NATO is unleashing 
horrendous power and bringing further destruction to his people.
  All through the 1960s and 1970s, Yugoslavia was the freest and most 
prosperous country in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. It is 
now a basket case. It is a police state.
  There is still some time for Milosevic to come to his senses and call 
off his madness. He cannot stand up to NATO. He can still call for a 
diplomatic solution, and we are ready to deal if he is. But the Serbian 
people and the people of Yugoslavia have suffered too long under his 
dictatorship.

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