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22 June, 1999IMF President Klaus Zwickel makes strong statement on the Balkan war.
HELSINKI: Klaus Zwickel, President of the International Metalworkers' Federation, opened the organisation´s Central Committee meeting today (June 23) in Helsinki with a strong statement on the Balkan war.
The terror which had taken place in Kosovo and the abuse of human rights, wielded by a fanatic, racist Serbian dictatorship, was totally inconceivable, he declared. He questioned how, on the one hand, a civilised world could just stand back and accept ethnic cleansing, but on the other hand said that fighting against it had also destroyed lives of innocent people.
As a consequence of the Balkan conflict, the IMF President stressed the need for a new set of international rules and a radical reform of the United Nations, to enable the international community to implement the rule of democracy and human rights throughout the world.
On behalf of all metalworkers everywhere, Zwickel thanked the Finnish President, Martti Ahtisaari, for all his efforts to bring an end to this conflict.
The terror which had taken place in Kosovo and the abuse of human rights, wielded by a fanatic, racist Serbian dictatorship, was totally inconceivable, he declared. He questioned how, on the one hand, a civilised world could just stand back and accept ethnic cleansing, but on the other hand said that fighting against it had also destroyed lives of innocent people.
As a consequence of the Balkan conflict, the IMF President stressed the need for a new set of international rules and a radical reform of the United Nations, to enable the international community to implement the rule of democracy and human rights throughout the world.
On behalf of all metalworkers everywhere, Zwickel thanked the Finnish President, Martti Ahtisaari, for all his efforts to bring an end to this conflict.