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PARIS -- The Americans did everything possible to undermine the work of the mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Kosovo and Metohija in order to launch the air strikes on Yugoslavia, the Paris daily L'Humanite said on Thursday quoting an OSCE representative in Pristina and earlier statements by members of this organization on the eve of the NATO bombardment.
In the OSCE everyone knows that the United States and Great Britain did not want our mission to succeed, the Paris communist daily quoted the OSCE source from Pristina who asked not to be named and who was present in Kosovo and Methoja before the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
This source charged the Americans of training the KLA and instructing them to kill the members of the Serbian police in order, as he said, to create a climate for the NATO intervention. He also confirmed that some of his collegues had spied for NATO and added that KLA influenced the Kosovo Albanians to leave the province in great numbers to create a "humanitarian catastrophe" and speed up the start of the NATO attacks.
At the time when Belgrade was respecting the Milosevic-Holbrooke agreement, and the ethnic Albanians were not, the United States was doing everything to turn this about and prepare the ground for the aggression on Yugoslavia.
Proof of this is also a statement by OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Willy Wimmer, made after the start of the bombing, in which he charged the United States of doing everything, in compliance with Great Britain, to sabotage the OSCE peace plan for Kosovo and Metohija and, with this aim, targeting on the so-called KLA, rather than on moderate ethnic Albanians represented by Ibrahim Rugova.
L'Humanite carried the article charging the U.S. of undermining the OSCE mission in Kosovo and Metohija on the very day of the opening of the OSCE summit in Istanbul where Yugoslavia was not invited and was thus prevented from voicing its position on issues of crucial importance for it.