Doug Bereuter: “This Member today is introducing legislation entitled the Stabilization and Pacification of Southern Serbia Act. This…”

“This Member today is introducing legislation entitled the Stabilization and Pacification of Southern Serbia Act. This bill is a response to the ongoing violence in southern Serbia and in Macedonia that has been fomented by Albanian extremists seeking to create a greater Kosovo by annexing areas of Macedonia and southern Serbia that also contain large concentrations of Albanians. This legislation would terminate U.S. economic assistance for Kosovo on June 30, 2001, unless the President certifies that citizens or residents of Kosovo are no longer providing assistance to the extremists that are responsible for the worsening situation in both southern Serbia and Macedonia and that leaders of the three main ethnic Albanian political parties of Kosovo are taking positive measures to halt the ethnically motivated violence against non-Albanians residing in Kosovo. It does contain a waiver for the President to continue U.S. assistance if he deems it in the national interests. Mr. Speaker, I urge support of the legislation. ____________________”