Posted on 05/30/2006 9:17:33 AM PDT by Bokababe
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Granting independence to Serbia's southern province of Kosovo against the will of Serbia would destabilize the Balkans, Serbia-Montenegro Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic warned on Tuesday. The United Nations is mediating talks on Kosovo's future status, which Western diplomats say are likely to conclude with a form of independence by the end of the year. Serbia is adamantly opposed to such an outcome. "I am very afraid of the possible imposed solution against the will of Belgrade of turning Kosovo into a state," Draskovic told a news conference. "The whole region, I think, would inevitably face turbulence." The warning comes in the wake of Montenegro's vote on May 21 to end its union with Serbia, which the European Union at one point opposed, fearing further fragmentation in the Balkans. On Monday there were signs this fear was not unjustified, as Serb nationalists seeking independence for the Bosnian Serb republic from Bosnia took the Montenegro referendum as a precedent and possible template for their own campaign. Legally, the cases of Kosovo, Montenegro, and the Bosnian Serb Republic are quite different. But Draskovic was warning that if nationalist feelings were injured, the legalities might be ignored. Kosovo has been policed by NATO's largest peacekeeping force and run by the United Nations since 1999, when a bombing war by the Western allies drove Serb forces out of the province to halt killings and ethnic cleansing by Belgrade in its war against ethnic Albanian separatist guerrillas. Kosovo's population of 2 million is 90 percent Albanian. They are impatient after years in limbo and want independence this year. Draskovic, in a speech, warned indirectly that granting independence over Belgrade's head could bring ultranationalists to power and turn Serbia against the European Union. "The European lights in Serbia may be extinguished only by a forcible decision to declare an internationally recognized state of Kosovo within ... the borders of Serbia," he said. Creating "yet another Albanian state in the Balkans" was a "dangerous scenario" that Serbia hopes will be "thwarted."
20-YEAR AGREEMENT? Belgrade is now proposing a 20-year agreement on Kosovo to be guaranteed by Serbia and the United Nations. It would have a constitution and would run its internal affairs independently. But Serbia would retain control over foreign policy, borders and customs, human rights, monetary policy and the protection of cultural and religious heritage. Western diplomats say the Serbian government is in denial, unable or unwilling to grasp the realities of the Kosovo situation and the will of 90 percent of its people. Warnings of an unpredictable Balkan domino effect were being revived after Montenegro, Serbia's junior partner in a joint state union, voted in a referendum to go its own way. Its independence dissolves what was left of Yugoslavia, which broke up in war in the 1990s. Montenegro was one of six federal republics, with a legal right to secession which it retained in the looser Serbia-Montenegro union that was formed with EU encouragement in 2003. Regardless of that legality, however, nationalist Serbs in neighboring Bosnia see Montenegro as an encouragement to push their own campaign for an independence referendum for Republika Srpska, one of Bosnia's two constituent parts. The demand was firmly rejected on Monday by Western officials, who warned the major powers would not tolerate any threat to Bosnia's sovereignty and integrity as a state.
Thanks for WWI info, I didn`t knew that!
So, same thing now on balkans. Nothing ended, waiting to erupt. Will do that soon.
I allways said, that when a bad guy is down in the gutter lying still, than it is over. When Islamofascists are destroyed and forced to surrender or die, THAN and only than pece for us all will come.
Instead of that new Islamic natios are created.
Just in europe in past 100 years 3 of them
1.Albania in 1912, when Serbia after destroying Turkish (Islamic) Empira (With Bulgaria and Greece) was forced to abandon Adriatic coast
2. Bosnia, in 1992, when Serbs were forced to remain in that Islam country although they live on 50% of its teritory
3. Kosovo in 1999 when Klinton attacked with 19 of his allies Serbia...
HEY wait a minute! joint factor for all 3 Islamic states are Serbs, evry time they forced Serbs to give up teritories!
This is the last item found in Lexis Nexis on Sacribegovic:
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=10606
I say lets pull our troups out of bosnia and line them up on our borders to inforce federal immigration law now!
Lets get out of the world policeman business.
You of course have a point there...
Thanks, Eleni!
BB
And you know about Weasely Clark's son being in cahoots with Sacerbegovic...
He made that story up and he knows it!
And so do we!!
You mean hoppie clark, jr don't ya??
Why "hoppie"?
Is that a synomym for felon?
"'My father, on the other hand,' said General Clark's son, 'could take a... excuse the expression... shit sandwich and turn it to gold.'"
Wow!! That sounds like a description of billy-J-clinton and hillary, too!!
The devil does take care of his own and lets them spin gold outta manure.
THR says Cold Shelter is a "character-based saga" about "an American special forces operative who is sent to 1983 Cold War East Germany to infiltrate a terrorist ring. Once there, he begins to question the values he has always fought to uphold."
Now... what a plot.. outta real life example from his left-wing weirdo papa... questioning the "values has has always fought to uphold" .. like fighting fair, loving AMERICA and being a Christian???
More on Wes Clark---notice the Young Turks.
http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2006/5/17/213321/962
How odd a muslim using a GREEK name as a handle.
The ancient Greeks would be outraged at the use of the term hoplite by a cowardly cultish Islamophile.
BTW- There is also another pisspot calling himself Hoplite here:
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1406
Hopefully it gets passed around as I expect a larger Challenge and the most successful one to date.
well, that is the same hoplite as he aint so 'hop'bright, ehh?
It all catches up to people of his ilk, eventually. He is being exposed to what and who he is... someone that rides his daddy's pocketbook, politically legacy and namestamp.
Ah! Good ole Weasely Wesley. Did you know he probably was one of the planners for the Waco massacre?
Wrong. It was 90% before, it's 95% now... Facts are stubborn things, aren't they?
Actually, I think that they are still considering the 200,000 Serbs who fled Kosovo in those numbers, as there has been vague mumbling (although no action) from the Euros about the "right to a safe return".
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