Albanians in Kosovo

 

Doc. 7553

9 May 1996

MOTION FOR A RECOMMENDATION

presented by Mr TAHIRI and others

This motion has not been discussed in the Assembly and commits only the members who have signed it

            The Assembly,

1.         Bearing in mind the persistent reports from many reliable sources of systematic human rights violations against the Albanian population;

2.         Considering that the Kosovo Albanians were engaged in passive resistance to the Serbian authorities, which suppressed Kosovo's autonomous status within the Former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia in 1989, where Kosovo was a federal unit of the Yugoslav Federation;

3.         Considering that while all the republics of the Former Yugoslav Federation have declared their independence, the Albanians in Kosovo have also done so and created a Kosovo Albanian Assembly and government;

4.         Referring to its Order No. 515 (1996), Recommendation 1288 (1996), Resolution 1077 (1996) (on Albanian asylum-seekers from Kosovo), and desirous to contribute to the improvement of the situation of the population in Kosovo;

5.         Urging member states of the Council of Europe to exert pressure on the Governments of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) to respect the will of the people in Kosovo expressed by referendum;

6.         Recommends that the Committee of Ministers:

i.          urge the governments in Belgrade to start a dialogue with the legitimate representatives of the Kosovo Albanians, in the presence of a third party, before it normalises its relations with the country; 

ii.          insist that Serbia and Montenegro respect Assembly Recommendations 1237 (1994), 1288 (1996) as well as UNGR 49/204 (94), 50/190 (95) and the Resolutions adopted by the European Parliament in 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1996.

Signed[1]:

Tahiri, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, EDG

Spahia, Albania, EPP

Mignon, France, EDG

Speroni, Italy, LDR

Gelderblom-Lankhout, Netherlands, LDR

Bartodziej, Poland, EPP

Mihaylova, Bulgaria, LDR

Gotzev, Bulgaria, EPP

Ruffy, Switzerland, SOC

E�rsi, Hungary, LDR

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[1]        SOC : Socialist Group

            EPP : Group of the European People's Party

            EDG : European Democratic Group

            LDR : Liberal, Democratic and Reformers Group

            UEL : Group of the Unified European Left