[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 82 (Thursday, June 10, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H4028]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   KOSOVO PEACE AGREEMENT IS FRAGILE

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Madam Speaker, I hope for the best, but this peace 
agreement seems very fragile. After rape, murder, and genocide, no 
simple piece of paper will stop the war in Yugoslavia.
  Ethnic Albanians did not fight and die for autonomy or self-rule. 
Neither did George Washington, Congress. But, for sure, ethnic 
Albanians did not die for the right to live in a suburb of Belgrade.
  Congress was warned in 1986 that without freedom for Kosovo, there 
will be no long-lasting peace in the region. I say, ``Free Kosovo, 
protect a sovereign border, or there will be no long-lasting peace.''

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