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ADDRESS BY THE CHAMBERS OF THE FEDERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
To the United Nations, international parliamentary organizations and parliaments of foreign states on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the aggression of the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the aggression of the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation note the need to give a fair assessment of this gross violation of international law, which led to the destabilization of the work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, had a negative impact on relations between European states.
The Chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation express deep concern at the ongoing attempts of the collective West to present the act of aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the international community as a peacekeeping operation, to consign the victims of NATO bombing to oblivion, and to blame the Serbs for starting the wars in the Balkans.
Between March and June 1999, as a result of barbaric missile and bomb attacks by the armed forces of NATO member states on civilian infrastructure, including transport and energy facilities, as well as industrial enterprises, more than two thousand civilians of Yugoslavia, including dozens of children, were killed. 2,300 cruise missiles and 14,000 bombs were rained down on a small sovereign state in the center of Europe.
Troops of NATO member states massively used ammunition with depleted uranium, which caused irreparable damage to the environment and provoked an increase in the number of cancer diseases in the region. The scale of the environmental disaster is still impossible to assess.
The impunity of NATO strikes against Yugoslavia created the preconditions for new military actions around the world under the guise of statements about the struggle “for the values of freedom and democracy.” The conviction of the collective West in its infallibility and its right to decide the fate of other peoples and states led to the cultivation of a neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine, which, after the coup in 2014, set a course for implementing a policy of genocide towards the Russian population and unleashing an armed conflict on the territory of this countries.
The Chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation appeal to the United Nations, international parliamentary organizations and parliaments of foreign countries with a call to condemn the military operation of NATO countries against Yugoslavia, to counteract attempts to distort the historical truth about the tragic events of 1999 in the interests of the collective West, and to take measures to attract member states North Atlantic Treaty Organizations to international legal responsibility for aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.