Wimmer: UN Charter bombed

The U.N. Charter is a kind of legal roof beneath which are housed the European Union, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and even NATO itself, which is now bombing this roof, said Wimmer, vice president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.

Speaking for the Munich Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, Wimmer supported the statement by Germany's former social democratic chancellor Helmut Schmidt that Germany, France, Italy and the other European NATO states allowed the United States to lead them by the nose when they agreed to take part in the aggression on Yugoslavia.

The Americans are promoting their own national interests, he said, adding that the country that does not care for Europe playing any significant role in the world is first trying to destroy the United Nations.

The Americans care nothing for the United Nations, which is why they are not paying their dues to the world organization, he explained.

Wimmer, the conservative CDU's deputy to parliament, explained that the so-called diplomatic efforts to settle the crisis in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province made before the aggression had not been serious at all.

There were no negotiations at Rambouillet, he stressed, agreeing with Sueddeutsche Zeitung reporter's conclusion that the Rambouillet conference was in fact a dictate.