Call to Arab and Muslim World

In memory of those that gave and lost their lives, and loved ones, we call the Arab and Muslim World to accept us as free people and our homeland as Republic of Kosova:

Because:
1. Serbia in contradiction with international law in 1912 annexed Kosovo through military occupation after its aggression against the Ottoman Empire; in contradiction with the aspiration of the Albanians, expressed during their national liberation movement 1878-1912.
History is a witness of denationalization policies; of gross crimes against Albanians during 1912-1918; for genocidal Serbian plans for the extermination of Albanians; for the deportation of Albanians in Turkey and for confiscation the lands of the population and its colonization with Serbs and Montenegrins. The time period between February 1998 and June 10, 1999 only exceeded these special cases and took the gravity of a general genocide of the Serbian regime against Albanians.

2. Kosovo was a constitute part of former Yugoslavia with a defined territory and borders. Kosovo was not part of the independent sovereign state of Serbia with its international personality recognized in the Berlin Congress (1878). Kosovo was not part of Serbia in the structure of Constitutional Assembly of Yugoslavia when the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was founded (1945). Finally it is worth mentioning that the abolishment of Kosovo's autonomy with the amendments in the Constitution of Serbia, an act, which occurred on March 28 1989, was done in an unlawful manner.

3. The future of Kosovo cannot be compared with secessions in some other parts of the world. Therefore Kosovo's independence should not be compared with secession of territories that were not annexed in a unilateral manner (against the will of the people of the original sovereigns), which joined existing states but that they are operating in territories that were part of these states at the time when they were established. In this way even the separatist movements in Transdnjestrovle (Moldavia), in Southern Osetia and Abkazia (Georgia) that do not have the ethnic basis that Kosovo has and which didn't have an autonomous or federal status at the time of dissolution of former Soviet Union as Kosovo had at the time of dissolution of former Yugoslavia. Kosovo Albanians are not comparable with Catalonians, Scots, Wellsians, Basks or Corsicans, because they did not face a massive deportation from the states, which controlled them.

4. The existence of Albania as an Albanian state cannot hinder the independence and sovereignty for Kosovo, because as we can recall from history neither did the status of Romania hinder the independence of Moldavia nor did the existence of France hindered the establishment of the canton-state of Switzerland. Finally, even if Kosovo was constituted as an Albanian state in the Balkans, this would be a handicap rather than an advantage of Albanian population in the Balkans.

The proverb that "wherever we have facts, words become unnecessary" is not meaningless.

Finally, Republic of Kosova declares independence.
February 17th 2008, at 15:49 CET
We are honored and humbled that it is our generation that lives to see this day,and we are aware and ready to take up the path that begins from here.

In memory of those that gave and lost their lives, and loved ones, we call the Arab and Muslim World to accept us as free people and our homeland as Republic of Kosova.

May peace and light prevail.
Wassalamu Alaykum, we rahmetullahi, we berekatuhu!