Vecernje Novosti, March 9, 1999
Dejan Lukic

In the statement Serbian government issued after the meeting where the results of the first round of talks in Rambouillet were discussed it is said that "all are aware that political agreement wasn't adopted and that it is far from being concluded."

Madeline Albright, Robin Cook, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair are coming out with a different story. Public in the West was denied the truth and served a rather distorted version of Rambouillet. According to this version Serbs accepted the political part of the plan (Albanians stalled a little) and now all that has to be done is to persuade Belgrade with the combination of political threats with bombs and troops to accept the second part - armed NATO peacemakers.

This is a blunt lie. Text that was literally planted at the tables just before the delegation left Rambouillet, couldn't have been signed in that form by any Yugoslav with some common sense. Some seventy pages of this so-called "political agreement" can be perceived as funny, ironic, frustrating, depressing or heart threatening, depending on how strong your nerves are. Actually, these seventy pages of the planted text can be absorbed in two ways: either calmly in a manner of a Brahman, as a lesson in Anglo-Saxon hypocrisy at its best, or as a true horror story.

Even before reaching the last page of this phantom document, one can perceive Kosmet, putting it mildly, as a quasi state that has only three years to wait for secession and than change its name. Secession is built gradually and silently with every line, brick by brick, paragraph by paragraph.

The beginning seems benign, as well as the end. But the seventh article of the first paragraph reads like this: "This agreement has more legal power than any other legal act of two parties and will be immediately effective. Two parties will adapt their current practices and documents with this Agreement."

Right between the eyes. By signing it, Serbia and Yugoslavia accept that the Agreement on Kosmet is stronger than their Constitution and will therefore change the articles of the Constitution to fit the requirements of the Agreement. If some articles of the Agreement are in collision with Yugoslav and Serbian Constitutions, after all the legal means have been exhausted, the international mission will rule over. If this is not carried out in a manner and at pace set by the chief of the mission he can instruct the commander of NATO forces to take action, because the Agreement stipulates that in such case "all the means, including force" can be applied.

In the thirteenth article of the first paragraph, Yugoslavia should sign that "both sides will fully cooperate with the International Tribunal for war crimes for former Yugoslavia in investigation and persecution, including compliance to requirements of the Tribunal for help and the respect of its orders. "

Here comes Louise Arbour not only to Pristina, but Belgrade as well. Signature to this paragraph (Article 13 of introductory principles) enables her - because Kosmet is at this point quite conveniently a sovereign part of Serbia and Yugoslavia, to expand the radius of prosecution to the whole territory of Yugoslavia. So, when she sets out in a hurry to fabricate Serbian crimes, as was the case in Racak she will cross the Yugoslav border as if it was a Swiss cheese.

"Border police forces will gradually be filled with new staff reflecting the ethnic picture of Kosovo population." All this will be supervised by a civilian chief of International Mission who will occasionally carry out inspections of the border and custom police forces, change, dismiss, reduce or extend the number of staff to fit operational needs".

That way, Ms. Arbour, if unable to land on Surcin airport will reach Belgrade though General Jankovic. There, she will encounter two or three of those 75 border policemen. Among them at least two will be Shiptars (because border police has to reflect ethnic picture of Kosovo population) if possible and most probably ex-terrorists of KLA. If the third one - Serb, Goran of Egyptian - has some complaints or slightest intention of stopping the lady from Hague, Big Caudillo of Kosmet enters the sovereign border scene. Rambouillet agreement gives him the right to dismiss, replace, punish and arrest Serbian policemen. So was written and signed.