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INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER
National: 39 W. 14th St., Ste. 206
New York, N.Y. 10011
(212) 633-6646 Fax: (212) 633-2889
Web page: www.iacenter.org
Email: iacenter@. iacenter.org
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Ramsey Clark, Chairperson
June 27, 2001
Yugoslavia Ambassador to U.S. Denies Visa to
Ramsey Clark; International Human Rights Attorney
Seeking to Visit Belgrade, as U.S. Pressure to Deport
Milosevic Intensifies
International Action Center Calls for Emergency
Campaign to Grant Visas
In a blow to human rights and due process, the
Yugoslav Ambassador to the United States, Milan
Propic, today refused to issue a visa to former U.S.
Attorney General Ramsey Clark to enter Yugoslavia.
Mr. Clark, who is a renowned international human
rights attorney and is a co-chair of the International
Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, says he will
continue to attempt to enter Belgrade to confer with
others working on that committee. "We are at a
critical moment, with the United States government
attempting to push through the illegal deportation of
Mr. Milosevic by this Friday," said Mr. Clark.
Clark called the visa denial "another consequence
of the intense U.S.-led campaign to force the Yugoslav
government to deport Mr. Milosevic. The real aim of
this campaign, along with ten years of war, blockade
and demonization directed against Yugoslavia, is to
reduce all of the former Yugoslavia to the status of a
U.S./NATO colony."
According to Vladimir Krsljanin, international
secretary of the Socialist Party of Serbia, of which
Mr. Milosevic is chairman, Propic was not acting with
the full the authority of the Yugoslav government.
Krsljanin said that the chief of the cabinet of the
Yugoslav government sent a cable at 7:34 p.m. Belgrade
time 1:34 p.m. in Washington ordering that Mr. Clark
receive his visa.
The embassy also refused a visa to Gloria La Riva,
a videographer and the West Coast coordinator of the
International Action Center, who is accompanying Mr.
Clark. La Riva, who was in Belgrade with Mr. Clark
twice during the bombing as a member of Mr. Clark's
delegation, produced the world-renowned film, "NATO
Targets," about NATO's war against Yugoslavia. Clark
is the founder of the IAC.
Mr. Clark condemned the U.S.-led campaign to label
Mr. Milosevic a war criminal "when the murder
perpetrated by NATO political and military leaders
during 78 days of bombing of civilian targets in
Yugoslavia is still fresh in the memory of the world."
"The undemocratic steps taken to refuse the
defendant and his supporters the right to a
consultation on legal and political questions is
evidence that those in charge in Yugoslavia are
capable of denying the most basic legal rights. We
have to be alert to the possibility that they
will deny Mr. Milosevic the due process of his
appeal of the extradition order and simply kidnap him
to the International tribunal in The Hague," said
Clark.
Clark pledged that "we will attempt to find a way
into Belgrade."
IAC Calls for Emergency Campaign -- Calls and
Emails Needed Immediately!
IAC co-coordinator Sara Flounders, who applied for
the visas from the Yugoslav Embassy in Washington,
said that she was forced to wait over four hours
before being refused for something the clerk said
usually takes five minutes to approve. "The ambassador
and the embassy staff refused to discuss the question
with me. It is absolutely clear that the ambassador
takes his orders from Washington rather than his own
foreign ministry."
"The IAC," Flounders added, "is asking all its
friends and friends of justice and peace worldwide, to
protest this decision to bar Mr. Clark and Ms La Riva
from Yugoslavia, by flooding the Yugoslav embassy with
calls and emails. Time is of the essence."
Ambassador Milan Propic can be reached by phone at
202-332-0333 and by email at yuembusa@. aol.com .
People can also direct protests to the Yugoslav
government in Belgrade.
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INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER
National: 39 W. 14th St., Ste. 206
New York, N.Y. 10011
(212) 633-6646 Fax: (212) 633-2889
Web page: www.iacenter.org
Email: iacenter@. iacenter.org
Bay Area: 2489 Mission St., Rm. 28
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 821-6545 Fax: (415) 821-5782
Ramsey Clark, Chairperson
June 27, 2001
Yugoslavia Ambassador to U.S. Denies Visa to
Ramsey Clark; International Human Rights Attorney
Seeking to Visit Belgrade, as U.S. Pressure to Deport
Milosevic Intensifies
International Action Center Calls for Emergency
Campaign to Grant Visas
In a blow to human rights and due process, the
Yugoslav Ambassador to the United States, Milan
Propic, today refused to issue a visa to former U.S.
Attorney General Ramsey Clark to enter Yugoslavia.
Mr. Clark, who is a renowned international human
rights attorney and is a co-chair of the International
Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, says he will
continue to attempt to enter Belgrade to confer with
others working on that committee. "We are at a
critical moment, with the United States government
attempting to push through the illegal deportation of
Mr. Milosevic by this Friday," said Mr. Clark.
Clark called the visa denial "another consequence
of the intense U.S.-led campaign to force the Yugoslav
government to deport Mr. Milosevic. The real aim of
this campaign, along with ten years of war, blockade
and demonization directed against Yugoslavia, is to
reduce all of the former Yugoslavia to the status of a
U.S./NATO colony."
According to Vladimir Krsljanin, international
secretary of the Socialist Party of Serbia, of which
Mr. Milosevic is chairman, Propic was not acting with
the full the authority of the Yugoslav government.
Krsljanin said that the chief of the cabinet of the
Yugoslav government sent a cable at 7:34 p.m. Belgrade
time 1:34 p.m. in Washington ordering that Mr. Clark
receive his visa.
The embassy also refused a visa to Gloria La Riva,
a videographer and the West Coast coordinator of the
International Action Center, who is accompanying Mr.
Clark. La Riva, who was in Belgrade with Mr. Clark
twice during the bombing as a member of Mr. Clark's
delegation, produced the world-renowned film, "NATO
Targets," about NATO's war against Yugoslavia. Clark
is the founder of the IAC.
Mr. Clark condemned the U.S.-led campaign to label
Mr. Milosevic a war criminal "when the murder
perpetrated by NATO political and military leaders
during 78 days of bombing of civilian targets in
Yugoslavia is still fresh in the memory of the world."
"The undemocratic steps taken to refuse the
defendant and his supporters the right to a
consultation on legal and political questions is
evidence that those in charge in Yugoslavia are
capable of denying the most basic legal rights. We
have to be alert to the possibility that they
will deny Mr. Milosevic the due process of his
appeal of the extradition order and simply kidnap him
to the International tribunal in The Hague," said
Clark.
Clark pledged that "we will attempt to find a way
into Belgrade."
IAC Calls for Emergency Campaign -- Calls and
Emails Needed Immediately!
IAC co-coordinator Sara Flounders, who applied for
the visas from the Yugoslav Embassy in Washington,
said that she was forced to wait over four hours
before being refused for something the clerk said
usually takes five minutes to approve. "The ambassador
and the embassy staff refused to discuss the question
with me. It is absolutely clear that the ambassador
takes his orders from Washington rather than his own
foreign ministry."
"The IAC," Flounders added, "is asking all its
friends and friends of justice and peace worldwide, to
protest this decision to bar Mr. Clark and Ms La Riva
from Yugoslavia, by flooding the Yugoslav embassy with
calls and emails. Time is of the essence."
Ambassador Milan Propic can be reached by phone at
202-332-0333 and by email at yuembusa@. aol.com .
People can also direct protests to the Yugoslav
government in Belgrade.
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opinioni delle realta' che compongono questa struttura, ma
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