APPENDIX 35
Supplementary memorandum submitted by
The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies
1. The Foundation has in previous submissions
pointed out that Albania's descent into anarchy with all of its
armouries looted, followed by the KLA taking control of the area
adjacent to Kosovo in order to establish training camps and supply
routes into Kosovo, constituted a threat to regional stability.
Yet NATO neither pressured Albania to close down these training
camps not did it seek Security Council approval, which would have
been forthcoming, to do so itself. The Foundation wishes to draw
the attention of the Committee to the fact that NATO actually
held "Partnership in Peacè exercises with the Albanian
Army in Albania while turning a blind eye to the KLA camps. "Partnership
for an Impending War" more aptly describes these exercises.
Far from pre-empting a threat to regional peace, NATO tolerated
it.
2. The Foundation also wishes to draw the
attention of the Committee to Ulster where diplomatic norms were
observed. The IRA was only admitted to the negotiating table after
they had participated in elections and won seats, declared a cease
fire, and ceased trying to establish no-go areas. Why was none
of this demanded of the KLA? Treating the KLA with kid gloves,
whose objective all along was all-out war, inevitably led to NATO's
demand that all Yugoslav military and police depart Kosovo. The
resulting policing vacuum, which NATO's occupying forces and the
UN's flown-in constabulary could not possible fill, contributed
to the murderous expulsion of Kosovo's Serbs, Roma and other non-Albanian
communities, as well as rampant criminality which threatens ordinary
Kosovars.
3. Please confirm, or otherwise, that this
submission will be forwarded to Committee members?
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