Change has issued the following statement on the US/NATO attack on Yugoslavia:
			RESOURCES The Rambouillet Accord (full text in English): NATO's pre-war plan for occupying Yugoslavia? Thought Police?: NATO Bombs Yugoslav Television Centre - A report from the Irish Times
	London, 24 March 1999 Change Statement on Yugoslavia The United States/NATO military action against the nation of Yugoslavia is an action that we consider to be an abhorrent violation of international law. While we do not in any way condone the poisonous behaviour of the Yugoslav government against Kosovar Albanians, we stand on the principle that the problem in Yugoslavia is a European problem, which must be solved by the European community. If it cannot be solved within the European community, then the only legitimate body to decide whether or not to use force to resolve the dispute is the United Nations. It is not NATO, and certainly not the United States. In our view, the use of NATO to attack a European nation reveals at last the dangerous truth of NATO, that it is nothing more than an entity to enforce a 'Pax Americana' throughout Europe. This action reinforces our unequivocal position that NATO is a threat to the sovereignty of Europe, and should be immediately abolished. By their own terms of definition, NATO was established in order to defend the nations of Europe from attack. The attack on Yugoslavia is not only the first time in its 50-year history that NATO has been called into action, but more significantly, it has been called into action not to defend but to attack a European nation. Given that NATO was silent for the entirety of the Cold War in the face of Soviet aggression, in Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), and in Poland (1981), our feeling regarding the justification for this first ever military action is that NATO is shamelessly seeking to justify its own existence in is 50th year, when the question will be quite rightly raised as to its purpose. It has chosen to do so on the backs of the people of Yugoslavia, and it has now only clarified its definition as a billy club of the United States. As socialists, we are shamed by our leaders in government who support this action. Unfortunately the future of our movement will be divided by those few in our parties' leadership who wish for Europe to become a servile satellite of the United States, and those of us who are disgusted by the continuous social, political, and economic intervention of American politics and corporations into our lives. In our opinion, it is time for the United States and their armies to leave Europe. It is at long last time for the paternalistic post-war relationship between Europe and the United States to end. If Europe is to become a unified polity, it must assert its sovereignty, and it must provide for its own security, as well as devise its own resolutions to internal conflicts. We call on the European parliament, as well as all of us in the European socialist community to loudly and strongly condemn the United States and NATO for conducting this outrage on our continent. Change Steering Committee: Anna Barrow Roy Blakey Andrew Hammer Graeme Oliver Davida Weller