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THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIAN KRAYINA – GOVERNMENT IN EXILE
11080 Zemun, 3 Magistratski trg
Phone: 3077-028, fax: 3077-247,
[email protected] No. 550/1/08 – Feb 18, 2008
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA – Mr Boris Tadić
SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER – Mr Vojislav Koštunica
PRESIDENT OF THE SERBIAN PARLIAMENT – Mr Oliver Dulić Based on the decisions of the Parliament and Government of the RSK, drafted in the appended parliamentary resolution, and on the most recent political circumstances,
WE DEMAND
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an immediate recognition of the Republic of Serbian Krayina and all its political institutions.
Enclosed: as in the text
RSK GOVERNMENT RSK PARLIAMENT
Milorad Buha, Prime Minister Rajko Ležaić, President.
THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIAN KRAYINA
PARLIAMENT IN EXILE
11080 Zemun, 3 Magistratski trg, phone: 3077-028,
[email protected] No. 550/1/08 – Feb 18, 2008
The Parliament of the Republic of Serbian Krayina, not waiving its constitutional duties and abiding to the Security Council Resolution No. 743 (1992), which guarantees the protection of the RSK's borders and the abolition of constitutional and legal jurisdiction of the Republic of Croatia over the RSK, continues with its work in exile, in view of removing the consequences of Croatian crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Serbs, from 1990 to 1995.
Concealing and eliminating the facts of the perpetrated crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Serbs in the RSK and RC points to the fact that the international community has violated the aforesaid SC resolution – by not preventing Croatian aggression on the RSK and judging by the fact that it has not so far, since 1995, taken any steps to moderate the consequences of that aggression.
The RSK Parliament singles out only a group of members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, because on January 26, 2006, they passed Declaration No. 374, wherewith they demanded that the RC be formed as a two-national state, as it had been until 1990, and all consequences of exiling the Serbs, abolition of their state-building capacity, deprivation of citizenship, settlement demolition, property plunder, and deprivation of all other rights be annulled;
Bearing in mind the fact that the neglect of the exile of the Serbian people from the RSK and RC to a great extent instigated an identical exile of the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohia – which spurred additional injustice and disturbed international relations in Europe, the RSK Parliament passes
THE RESOLUTION
on the historical and ethnic rights of the Serbs to restore their state, the Republic of Serbian Krayina, as authentic – established on the fundmanetals of Serbian historical state law
1. The Parliament of the RSK does not waive its duty to establish its state – based on the fundamentals of Serbian historical state law and the people's referendum od May 12, 1991, and on the Parliament's decree of December 19, 1991 – when the RSK as a state of the Serbian people was formed.
2. The RSK had all attributes of a modern state: population, territory and sovereign authority. According to the UN SC's 743/1992 Resolution (the Vance Plan), the RSK acquired a special status in international law, and was put under UN's direct protection. This resolution and the RSK's special status in international law have not been repealed by any subsequent UN SC resolution, which means that the RSK, formally according to the UN Charter, still exists;
3. The RSK was in existence for four years as an independent political and legal subject, extending effective authority to its own territory, all until the day of the RC's brutal aggression, on August 5, 1995;
4. The Socialist Republic of Croatia was until 1990 a republic with a divided double sovereignty – Croatian and Serbian. Due to an immeasurable Serbian contribution to the liberating anti-fascist movement, in the Second ZAVNOH Congress of October 1943, a resolution was passed, which says, among other things: "There is no, there cannot be and there will not be a Croatia in which the Serbs could not be guaranteed full equality and full rights";
5. In the 1990 multi-party elections in Croatia, the CDU (HDZ) announced, and later carried out, a fascistoid Greater Croatian programme. It announced and carried out a new pogrom of the Serbian population. The Croatian crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Serbs were based on the passage of the new (anti-Serbian) Croatian constitution. The Croatian constitution stipulates that the RC is "a national state of the Croatian people and minorities that are its citizens", by which act the Serbs were expelled from the Constitution – despite being a state-building nation until then;
6. The RSK came into being as a response to Croatia's secession from the sovereign and internationally recognised SFR Yugoslavia, based on the same right of the Serbs to self-determination and life in their free state, and on the fact that they had their historical and ethnic territory;
7. The RC's occupation of the RSK is not a legal, but a temporary state, and therefore we demand that the Serbian national question and the existence of the Serbs on the RSK and RC's territory be solved by the cessation of such occupation and by providing the security and free determination of all the people that lived on that territory until the occupation of the RSK;
8. The RSK Parliament thus informs the international public that it will revert to other state-forming acts in accordance with the UN Charter and with international law, addressing another warning that the precedent regarding the RSK's occupation is extremely often exploited by the world's retrograde powers, because in the same manner they are trying to encourage the exodus of the Serbs and non-Albanians from Kosovo and Metohia;
9. The RSK Parliament reminds the UN and other subjects of international relations that the Serbs in the SR Croatia were a state-building nation, and that the Albanians in the SR Serbia were only a national minority, so it is easy to conclude that the international community is depriving the Serbs from their historical rights and reducing them to the so-called statistical error, and giving the Albanians in Kosovo and Metohia a higher status than that of national minority and (contrary to international law and the UN Rights of Man Charter) intimating the possibility of creating an Albanian state, with a secession from the sovereign Republic of Serbia.
10. Based on the recommendation of the Badinter Commission, the republics of the former SFRY became internationally recognised states in their republic borders, which became an international rule. The one-sided and anti-legal declaration and recognition of Kosovo's independence violates this generally accepted principle, which reopens the Serbian question – refers back to the right of the Serbs to restore the sovereignty of the RSK, and to the right of the Serbs in the Republic of Srpska – to decide their political fate independently.
11. The RSK Parliament informs the UN and other subjects of international relations that thay should bear in mind the fact that the Serbs from Krayina had district authority, judicature and their military organisation in Hungary since 1471 and in Austria since 1630, and that that state-building has to be respected and transformed into modern state-building – established in 1991.
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