Rambouillet Peace Conference - Hawaii Pacific University
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Boshkovich 76<br />
May 31 st , 1999), ‖The air war in Kosovo is justified as establishing the principle that the<br />
international community--or at least NATO--will henceforth punish the transgressions of<br />
governments against their own people. But we did not do so in Algeria, Sudan, Sierra<br />
Leone, Croatia, Rwanda, the Caucasus, the Kurdish areas and many other regions‖. 187<br />
Why is that so? What was the justification for bombing of Yugoslavia? The next<br />
statement is one of the explanations how the international community justified the<br />
bombing: George Kenny from Department of State said that they intentionally raised the<br />
bar too high to make sure that Serbs would not be able to jump over. 188 Eric Suy, former<br />
chief advisor for the law in UN and professor of international law at Catholic <strong>University</strong><br />
in Brussels went so far that he compared the Agreement from <strong>Rambouillet</strong> with Hitler‘s<br />
ultimatum to Czechoslovakia. In both cases he said that excuse was found in protection<br />
of national minority. 189<br />
One more reaction came from British journalist Tim Marshall. He quoted Mr.<br />
Robert Hayden from Pittsburgh <strong>University</strong> who claims that the only purpose of the<br />
Agreement from <strong>Rambouillet</strong> was to justify military intervention against FR Yugoslavia.<br />
He also said that members of western delegation had sketched the map of possible<br />
division of Kosovo, but Albright prevented them to show that to the Serbian delegation, it<br />
was feared that they might accept that. 190<br />
Serbian President Mr. Milutinovic gave an official statement on 23 rd February, at<br />
the end of negotiations. For this occasion it will be present most interesting parts from his<br />
reaction.<br />
187 Newsweek Online, ―New World Disorder,‖ May 31, 1999, http://www.newsweek.com/id/88424/page/5<br />
188 Miodrag Mitic, Kako Nam Se Dogodio Rambuje (Beograd: Filip Visnjic, 2003), 189.<br />
189 International Court of Justice, May 10, 1999, 38-39, http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/114/4491.pdf<br />
190 Miodrag Mitic, Kako Nam Se Dogodio Rambuje (Beograd: Filip Visnjic, 2003), 204.