President of self-proclaimed Kosovo thanks NATO for bombing Yugoslavia

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9 years ago, on March 24 1999, aggression (unsanctioned by the UN SC attack) of NATO against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was launched. President of the self-proclaimed Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu has thanked NATO for bombing Yugoslavia. He reported that the ninth anniversary of NATO's bombing of Serbian military and police targets were celebrated in the “independent Kosovo.” Kosovo's president recommended his fellow citizens to be “grateful to the USA, European Union, and NATO forces.”

Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaci, for his part, declared that the people of Kosovo would be eternally grateful to NATO and international community who nine years ago supported their struggle for the preservation of civilization values: freedom, peace, and democracy. “The people of Kosovo will be ever grateful to NATO and countries who supported its just struggle,” he claimed.

Former field commander of Albanian separatists, Hashim Thaci, whose direct participation in slaughters of civilians remained unproved by the Hague tribunal, voiced special thanks to heads of states who supported “the fight of the Kosovo people for freedom and democracy:” US president Bill Clinton, prime minister of Great Britain Tony Blair, US state secretary Madeleine Albright, NATO secretary general Javier Solana, and heads and officers of the international administration in Kosovo.