In these sessions invited highest diplomatic officials , military , national security of the U.S. and European specialists and Balkan issues to explain U.S. policy towards Kosovo . These sessions also serve as a platform to inform the public about what was happening in Kosovo and simultaneously calling on U.S. officials to develop policies in support of Kosovo Albanians , whose rights were violated without mercy by different regimes Serbian the Yugoslav .
Interest in the fate of Kosovo Albanian and U.S. support for them , they got momentum after the bloody demonstrations since 1981 , where they found higher death from 300 - Albanians . Massive student demonstrations in successive 1980s oppressed Albanians by Serbian police and disappointed by their discriminatory situations in every area of life and their activities under the former communist Yugoslavia , drew the attention of the American public and media also focusing concentration of its representatives in Congress about what was happening in Kosovo .
Among the first members of Congress who was at the forefront of efforts to present the American and world agony of Albanians in Kosovo and in the Balkans was Joe DioGuardi , a native of Italy , feels , who both assured the support of many of his colleagues Congress for the cause of freedom and human rights for Albanians in Kosovo and throughout the Balkans . At that time , the campaign of Congressman DioGuardi joined famous names of that period Congress in support of Kosovo , including among others , the famous American legislators Lantos , Broomfield , Gilman , Dole and Congressman known course of our days