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Berlin court: NATO aggression illegal
May 14, 2000



Berlin, May 12 - The Berlin court of original jurisdiction reached today a verdict that the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia was an illegal, arbitrary and impermissible intervention by the alliance, representing gross violation of the international law.

The Tirgarten court of original jurisdiction in the German capital was involved in the case of persons indicted by the state prosecution because they called on Bundeswehr soldiers to desert in the last year's war against Yugoslavia.

The court acquitted them of charges, explaining there was no desertion, which is a criminal offence under to the German law, since the war against Yugoslavia was carried out by violating the valid international law.

Weekly Unser Zeit published today the verdict, which officially declared the NATO aggression on our country illegal, all in the heart of a country which was one of its key protagonists along with the U.S.

It is stressed in the verdict that arbitrary intervention, such as the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia was, is impermissible under the valid international law and that it is carried out for humanitarian motifs, which was one of the phrases most often propagandized by the Western alliance.

"It is contrary to the intention of the U.N. Charter, according to which violent salvation of international conflicts is not possible above the systems of institutions of collective security", it is said in the verdict.

The Berlin court thinks that the deployment of Bundeswehr against the FR of Yugoslavia "was objectively illegal", since it also represented the violation of the valid international law.

"The air war against the FR of Yugoslavia has violated absolute ban on violence under Article 2 Ref. 4 of the U.N. Charter. The ban on violence includes every kind of armed violence directed against territorial integrity of another state", concluded the Berlin court.


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