Support for Democracy and Human Rights in Yugoslavia

 

102D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION

S. RES. 106
Toexpress Senate support for democracy and human rights in Yugoslavia and Senato opposition to the use of force against democratic republic governments in Yugoslavia.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
APRIL 18 (legislative day, APRIL 9), 1991
Mr. DOLE (for himself, Mr. SYMMS, Mr. PELL, and Mr. HELMS) submitted
the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to

RESOLUTION

To express Senate support for democracy and human rights in Yugoslavia and Senate opposition to the use of force against? democratic republic governments in Yugoslavia.

Whereas in 1990 four of the six republics in Yugoslavia elect-ed non-Communist democratic governments;

Whereas in 1990 two republics in Yugoslavia elected Commu-nist governments;

Whereas in 1990 the provinces of Kosova and Vojvodina were stripped of their? autonomous status by the government of the Republic of Serbia;

Whereas the United States Department of State?s 1990 an-nual report on human rights state that, ?in the province of Kosova, Serbian authorities continued and intensified repressive measures that featured in 1990 thousands political arrests, tens of thousands of politically motivated job dismissals, and widespread police violence against ethnic Albanians.?

Whereas the Yugoslav Army has threatened the use of mili-tary force to undermine the democratic republics of Yugoslavia and to suppress human rights in the province of Kosova and elsewhere;

Whereas despite continuous and good-faith efforts by the democratic republics to come to a negotiated agreement on the futare structure of Yugoslavia, there remains a threat of a military crackdown; and

Whereas the political situation in Yugoslavia is highly uncer-tain: Now, therefore, be it

1Resolved, That—
2 (a) United States policy toward Yugoslavia
3should be based on support for democracy and
4human rights for all of the people of Yugoslavia;
5 (b) the Senate calls on Serbian President
6Slobodan Milosevie to cease all repressive policies
7against the Albanian population of Kosova;
8 (c) the Senate calls on Yugoslav President Jovic
9and the Yugoslav Army to refrain from the use of
10coercive tactics and force against the democratically
11elected governments of the republics of Bosnia-
12Hereegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia;
13 (d) the Senate notes that the criteria estab-
14lished in Section 599A of Public Law 101—513 have 

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