Message-ID: <Pine.3.88.9507132248.A828-0100000@julian.uwo.ca> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 22:16:10 -0400 From: "c. leite" <mailto:cleite@JULIAN.UWO.CA> Subject: Re: THE 3RD ANNUAL YUEDI CONFERENCE To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Here, here! It's too bad that Western politicians (again) appear ready to put short-term election concerns ahead of decisions that moral considerations and history would compel us to take.
On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Rob Jacobs wrote:
> I just received on e-mail your announcement of the 3rd Annual Conference
> and wanted to respond
>
> I apologize first to those members of the DEVEL-L list who wish the list
> to avoid politics for politicizing the list.
>
> Although I can do nothing to force my government to act humanely and
> intervene to stop the Serbian (a.k.a. "Yugoslavian") aggression and
> "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia-Herzegovina, I can at least state that I will
> in no way participate in any activity that takes place in Serbia, is put
> on by Serbians, or in any way treats official or unofficial
> representatives of Serbia as accepted members of the international
> community.
>
> I would hope other members of the list will likewise boycott any
> Serbian-sponsored activity or conference and will make those sponsoring
> the conference aware of their intent to treat the Serbia as an pariah
> among nations.
>