[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 124 (Friday, October 6, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H9454]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          AMERICA SHOULD SUPPORT THE FREE ELECTIONS IN SERBIA

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the people of Serbia have 
spoken. I hope as the hours proceed, and maybe as we have been on the 
floor, I have not heard the latest update, that democracy will take 
hold and they will be free.
  I met Mr. Milosevic, and actually went and sat in his office and 
asked him to promote peace. It was 1995, and he said to me, ``I will do 
so.'' Some few short years later, I find myself in refugee camps in 
Albania looking at the threatened, intimidated, and frightened refugees 
that Mr. Milosevic had sent fleeing out of Serbia.
  It is time now for him to lay down his leadership of despotism, and 
he should at least recognize that the people have spoken. It is time 
now for his nation to be free, to become part of the world community.
  I would ask that they will be able to proceed as free citizens under 
the duly-elected new president. Mr. Milosevic has served his time, and 
unfortunately, it has not been a leadership of sharing.
  I would hope that we would stand up and support the new and free 
elections of the people of Serbia, and include in that support the 
request that Mr. Milosevic, who hopefully will be found and, as well, 
be able to address the grievances against him, now knows that he no 
longer serves as president of that Nation.

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