The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland declares with deep regret, that reports being received in Poland indicate that Kosovo has become the site of a dramatic humanitarian catastrophe. The actions of military, police, and paramilitary units of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to threaten the lives of the civilian population, drive thousands of people from their homes and force them to leave Kosovo are a clear violation of fundamental human rights. In today's Europe, the creation of a policy of retroactive facts is intolerable.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland emphatically protests and condemns the policy of ethnic cleansing, pacification of the Albanian countryside, and repression of the Albanian intelligentsia in Kosovo, systematically being implemented by FRY authorities. We consider the murder of human rights defender Bajram Kelmendi and Fehmi Agani, member of the Kosovo Albanian delegation at the peace talks in Paris, to be an act of barbarism.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland discerns a continued need to seek a political resolution of the conflict around Kosovo. NATO military actions are currently the only means of forcing the FRY to return to the path of negotiation and respect for human rights.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland calls on the authorities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to completely and immediately halt this vile practice of ethnic cleansing, which violates all norms of behavior recognized by the international community.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland declares that complete responsibility and legal consequences for these acts of violence and hatred fall upon the authorities of the Federal Republic Yugoslavia.