The Workers’ Party has said
that the unilateral declaration of independence of the self-proclaimed Kosovo parliament is in violation of international
law and the party has warned that the support for the move by the United States, NATO and the European Union will have grave
consequences in the Balkans region and internationally.
“The US, EU and
NATO are in fact breaking their own rules as well as those of international law. They were the authors
of United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 1244 which set in train a process which was to decide the future of Kosovo-Metohija.
The declaration of independence is a flagrant violation of that process which was being overseen by Mr. Marti Ahttassari
who had previously been involved in the Northern Ireland peace process as
one of those overseeing the question of weapons decomissioning”.
“The latest move
is part of an ongoing relentless attack on the sovereignty rights of the Republic
of Serbia of which Kosovo and Metohija is an integral part and is a continuation
of the policy of demonisation of and destruction of the Serbian nation and people which the US has led for the past two decades. The West was instrumental in fomenting civil war in Yugoslavia in the first place by its precipitous recognition of the breakaway Croatia, ignorant of the ethnic mix of that country and of the desires of other peoples
in the region”
“The visit yesterday
by the EU foreign minister Mr. Javier Solana, who as NATO General Secretary oversaw the carpet bombing of Serbia and Kosovo in 1999 can only be seen as a gross act of provocation by the European Union”.
“The Workers’
Party calls on Ireland to uphold international law and to not to support this
adventure by the breakaway Kosovo. We further call on the Irish government to withdraw all troops serving
under NATO command in Kosovo and Metohija as whatever fig leaf of a UN mandate had existed is now sundered by this unilateral
action. Furthermore the plan to send a contingent of gardaí to the region should also be axed”.
