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manipulating the un Security Council in order to secure for itself a
status that would enable it to use force against any sovereign country
that, in its assessment, might endanger peace in the region.
The reactions of other political parties were similar. Zoran
Đinđić said that his Democratic Party had worked out a plan for the
cantonization of Kosovo on the model of the Vance-Owen plan for
Bosnia. The plan envisaged absolute self-government for the Serbian
entities, including police and judicial power, in order to protect the
Serbs against being outnumbered and outvoted. Only ethnic cantonization
could protect the Serbs, according to Đinđić. 395
Miloš Minić, former foreign minister of the sfry (1972–78), was a
rare old guard politician who warned Milošević about using repression
against Albanians. As a fighting member of the Partisan-led
anti-fascist movement of national liberation of Yugoslavia in 1941–
45, he saw a similarity between the situation in Serbia and elsewhere
in Yugoslavia in the 1940s and the situation in Kosovo. He believed
that the kla’s armed struggle was developing somewhat along the
lines of the Partisans’ fight, which in 1941 grew into a popular uprising
in Serbia. “It was these similarities that helped me to perceive the
changing character of the armed struggle of the Liberation Army of
Kosovo,” wrote Minić, “to realize that the struggle of that organization
of Kosovo Albanians was transcending the narrow framework
of terrorist actions being conducted in Kosovo in recent months and
turning into those forces’ guerrilla warfare.” 396
Other parties in coalition with the sps defended the
Milošević-Holbrooke agreement. Momir Bulatović declared that
the “agreement with Holbrooke was a most important step to preserve
the unity of the fry and Serbia.” 397 Vuk Drašković argued:
“It is in our interest that foreign observers, diplomatic missions,
395 Blic, November 2, 1998 .
396 Miloš Minić, Ratovi na Kosovu (1998/1999) i u Čeceniji (1994/1996), Sarajevo, 2000 . p .51 i 58 .
397 Glas javnosti, November 11, 1998
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