[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 13, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H838]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         STABILIZATION AND PACIFICATION OF SOUTHERN SERBIA ACT

  (Mr. BEREUTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, this Member today is introducing 
legislation entitled the Stabilization and Pacification of Southern 
Serbia Act. This bill is a response to the ongoing violence in southern 
Serbia and in Macedonia that has been fomented by Albanian extremists 
seeking to create a greater Kosovo by annexing areas of Macedonia and 
southern Serbia that also contain large concentrations of Albanians.
  This legislation would terminate U.S. economic assistance for Kosovo 
on June 30, 2001, unless the President certifies that citizens or 
residents of Kosovo are no longer providing assistance to the 
extremists that are responsible for the worsening situation in both 
southern Serbia and Macedonia and that leaders of the three main ethnic 
Albanian political parties of Kosovo are taking positive measures to 
halt the ethnically motivated violence against non-Albanians residing 
in Kosovo.
  It does contain a waiver for the President to continue U.S. 
assistance if he deems it in the national interests.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge support of the legislation.

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