Serbia Warns on Independent Kosovo

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092500918.html ^

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PRISTINA, Serbia -- Serbia's foreign minister has warned of possible renewed conflict in the Balkans if the province of Kosovo becomes independent without the Serbian government's approval, according to comments published Monday.

Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic suggested Kosovo should have full autonomy but not be allowed to hold separate membership in the United Nations and NATO.

"Kosovo's independence would produce trouble in the region, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia," Draskovic was quoted as saying in the Kosovo Albanian daily Epoka e Re.

"You know that no border in the Balkans has been changed with an agreement," he said. "Borders have always been changed with wars, and that (Kosovo's independence) would naturally bring such a trouble."

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[Cicero]

Well put. The usual suspects in the UN want to hand Kosovo over to the Muslim Albanians, and could care less if that puts Montenegro, Macedonia, and Greece in danger.

President Bush clearly lacks the will to challenge clinton's conduct of the Yugoslav War. He inherited a fait accompli. So he will be inclined to do whatever rocks the boat least.

The prospect of further wars in the region is a sobering thought, and perhaps it will slow the rush to violate international law and forcibly remove a province from a sovereign state without their consent.

[Wuli]

The naivete of the west was not in the acknowledgement of the tyranny of Milosevic, but in the power vacuum they created in Kosovo and their inattention to who was moving in to fill that vacuum - Saudi-funded Wahabi-Islamists.

Is there six degrees of separation between the Wahabi clerics in Saudi Arabia (the official version of Islam in Saudi Arabia) and Osama bin Laden? No. There is none.