[ALBSA-Info] Yugo. addmitted in the UN

[Kreshnik Bejko]

This will have huge legal implications for the Kosovar
Albanians.

Yugoslavia Admitted As a U.N. Member

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The General Assembly admitted Yugoslavia by 
acclamation on Wednesday as a new U.N. member, eight years after Belgrade 
was cast into the diplomatic wilderness following the breakup of the old 
Yugoslav federation. The old Yugoslavia was a founder member of the United 
Nations in 1945. But Belgrade has been in limbo since 1992, after Bosnia, 
Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia seceded, leaving the new Federal Republic of 
Yugoslavia under President Slobodan Milosevic comprising only Serbia and 
Montenegro. The General Assembly ruled at the time that the rump Yugoslav 
state "cannot continue automatically the membership of the former Socialist 
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" and had to apply to join, just like the four 
states that seceded. The way for this was cleared when President Vojislav 
Kostunica last month replaced Milosevic, widely blamed for the bloody 
conflicts that accompanied the break-up of the old Yugoslavia. Last Friday 
Kostunica applied for U.N. membership for his country and on Tuesday the 
Security Council unanimously recommended that the 189-member General 
Assembly admit Yugoslavia as a member.

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