[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 154 (Thursday, November 4, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H11486]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        IS THE UNITED NATIONS OPERATING UNDER A DOUBLE STANDARD?

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, could the U.N. be operating under a double 
standard? It is very interesting that the United Nations, while calling 
for the indictment of Yugoslavia President Milosevic as a war criminal 
was all too eager to work with Milosevic's health minister to set up 
the Kosovo program to, quote, stimulate the birth rate of the 
populations in central and northern Serbia and to limit or forbid the 
enormous increase of the birth rate in Kosovo.
  Could the U.N. be a complicit partner in Milosevic's efforts to halt 
or slow the growth of the ethnic Albanian population?
  Could we have another one-child policy in the works following in the 
footsteps of China?
  Can we blame the Albanian people for believing family planning 
programs and condom distribution is just another way to reduce their 
ethnic population?
  Mr. Speaker, this tension in Kosovo represents the fine line that 
UNFPA is walking when it, however well-meaning, pushes through its 
population control programs around the world.

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