• It is 40 years since Helsinki Final document;

• Destruction of SFR of Yugoslavia 1992.- 1995. aided by USA/NATO was a clear
violation Helsinki Final document, especially of the principle of inviolability of international borders. It was the beginning of fragmentation of sovereign states in Europe.

• Bypassing UN Security Council, NATO violated sovereigntyandterritorial integrity of
Serbia (FRY) by undertaking military aggression in 1999. against an independentsovereign European country. It was brutal violation of the basic principles of international laws, including UN Charter and Helsinki Final Document. It was precedent for ensuing USA/NATO military interventions (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Mali);

• At the NATO conference in Bratislava, in April 2000, USA representatives presented
plan to establish strategic control of the whole space from Baltic Sea to Anatolia (Turkey). They said that wherever the law appears as an obstacle to the NATO objectives it should be removed.(Willy Wimmer report to the Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, dated May 2nd, 2000, Current Issues of Foreign Policy, Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, Belgrade, 2007. p. 73-7);
• 2006 dissolution of FR of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) was directly
engineered by Javier Solana, NATO Secretary General at the time of USA/NATO aggression on Serbia (FRY) 1999;

• 2008 unilateral secession of Serbia’s Province of Kosovo and Metohija from Serbia
was an act of violation of Helsinki, UN Charter and UN SC resolution 1244 (1999), openly aided and lobbied by USA/NATO/EU, while the Province has been under their military occupation. It has been and, unfortunately, will be precedent for future secessions in Europe;

• At 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest Germany and France resisted USA initiative to
invite Ukraine to join NATO, considering that it would provoke Russia and that confrontation with Russia would not be in Europe’s best interest;

• Ukrainian conflict was provoked in line of USA/NATO strategy of expansion toward
East, i.e. encirclingRussia;

(SORCE: STRATFOR https://www.stratfor.com/image/new-containment)

• Chain of new USA bases in Europe started with 1999 erection of Bondstil base in
occupied Serbian Province Kosovo and Metohija. It was followed by four USA new bases in Bulgaria, four in Romania and so on;

• Strategy of encircling Russia and dividing EU from Russia led to erecting network of
new USA network of anti-ballistic bases;

• New six permanent NATO bases with 30.000 troops for fast reaction, in Poland, Baltic
and other states are results of 2014 Wells NATO summit;

• Much before Maiden coup in Kiev and referendum in Crimea, the whole of Europe,
especially Eastern parts of the Continent, was covered by unprecedented network of new USA/NATO military bases. Europe has been militarized.

Zivadin Jovanovic