Letter to the President of the United States of America

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A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

• An imposed settlement of the Kosovo question and seeking to partition Serbia’s sovereign territory without its consent is not in the interest of the United States. This week the U.S. administration has made a massive leap into the unknown.

George W. Bush
President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

February 18, 2008

Dear Mr. President:

It is in sorrow and in anger that the Serbian National Defense Council, the oldest Serbian-American organization, takes note of your decision to recognize the self-proclaimed Albanian entity in Kosovo.

Regardless of the illegal act of self-proclamation in Pristina last Sunday, and the subsequent misguided recognition of that act by the United States, Serbia will never accept the loss of her southern province Kosovo. All Americans who cherish the principles of international legality, the United Nations Charter, and the Helsinki Final Act - regardless of race, religion, or ethnic origin - will support Serbia in her principled stand.

The United States is violating international law and effectively assisting the creation of a “greater Albania” at Serbian expense by illegally recognizing Kosovo. Similar to the illegal bombing of Serbia in 1999 by the Clinton Administration, the illegal recognition of the proto-Jihadist quasi-state of Kosovo - which will never be recognized by the United Nations as a legitimate nation, of course - will be used as a pretext for yet more illegal actions by other terrorist secessionist movements in a global free-for-all that will destroy global security. A fatal precedent has been set regardless of what your officials may claim.

An imposed settlement of the Kosovo question and seeking to partition Serbia’s sovereign territory without its consent is not in the interest of the United States. This week the U.S. administration has made a massive leap into the unknown. That leap is potentially on par with Austria’s 1914 ultimatum to Serbia.

The fruits of the act of Kosovo’s recognition will be equally bitter. While their exact size and taste are hard to predict right now, that in the fullness of time America will come to regret it is certain. Your Balkan policy is worse than a crime: It is a mistake.

Respectfully yours,

Slavko B. Panovic
President

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The fund has come into being in accordance with the mandate of the SND. Its purpose is and will be to assist young Serbs of both sexes with excellent academic credentials and character references to complete their studies, and through their subsequent work to assist the recovery of Serbia and contribute to the welfare of the Serbian people.
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ДОДЕЛА СТИПЕНДИЈА НА СВЕТОГА САВУ 2008 У БЕОГРАДУ

Када је Српска народна одбрана објавила конкурс за доделу стипендија српским студентима из свог Фонда »Михаило Пупин«, најпре су били срећни сви у СНО јер се остварује онај план да наша организација активно учествује у помоћи Отадзбини на врло својствен начин, а како ствари стоје и јединствен и врло успешан.
Наиме, СНО ће ући и у неке друге књиге по начину и критеријумима доделе стипендија. Не само да су студенти били врло заинтересовани за ову стипендију, већ се и од студената тражило понешто заузврат: да својим потписом потврде да неће напустити Отаџбину, да су чланови односно да одлазе у цркву и да им то својим потписом и печатом потврди свештеник, да имају просек оцена већи од 9 и да су најмање завршили другу годину студија.
Рећи ће неко - много тражимо. Не, наш је одговор, ово је минимум испод кога ми - као организација Срба која више од девет дугих деценија стоји на бранику Српства и православља у свету и која међу Србе Америке уноси и разноси тај национални елан - не смемо да идемо. И то је био одговор да нашу жртву и жртву наших помагача који су даровали средства Фонду учинимо смисленим и да зарад њихових идеала као и идеала ове организације покушамо нешто да учинимо.