The Address of HRH Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia to the Serbian Anti-war Rally in Chicago on 2 April, 1999.

The NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia has from the start violated the principles of International Law stated in the United Nations Charter which was signed by all the NATO countries. Furthermore, that act of unprovoked aggression has already gone even beyond the aims and scope originally announced by the Secretary General of that Alliance. It has reached the level of an all-out war against the Serbian People. It must, therefore, immediately stop to enable the sides in this internal Yugoslav conflict to return to the negotiations. And those negotiations should be open-ended and fair. They must take into account that Kosovo is an integral part of a sovereign state, which is among the founding members of the United Nations. Such a nation cannot be pressured with unacceptable dictates justified only by the threats of military might. Serbs are as likely to give up Kosovo because the ethnic Albanians want it as the Israelis are to give up Jerusalem because the Arabs want it or Americans are to give up Alamo and Texas because the Mexicans might want it. The solution of the problem is in direct negotiations of the involved parties supervised by the United Nations and conducted so that they guarantee equal rights to all citizens of Kosovo, no matter what is their ethnic or religious background. And the time to call off the aggression and return to the political negotations is now.

 

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