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U.N. plan for Kosovo unacceptable-Serb bishop
http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=14946

By David Brunnstrom

BRUSSELS, Feb 2 (Reuters) - A U.N. plan for the future of Kosovo will never be accepted by the Serb minority or Serbia, the head of the Serb Orthodox Church in Kosovo said on Friday.

Bishop Artemije told Reuters an imposed solution for the province would destabilise the Balkan region and boost calls for independence in other parts of Europe.

"The proposal is unacceptable to us because it presupposes the separation of Kosovo from Serbia and as such will never be accepted either by the Kosovo Serbs nor the Serbian state," the spiritual leader of Kosovo's Serb minority said.

"Only a solution found through talks and compromise can be a lasting solution," Artemije, speaking through an interpreter, said in an interview after meeting EU Special Representative to Kosovo Stefan Lehne in Brussels.

The bishop spoke as U.N. special envoy Martti Ahtisaari handed over his plan to set Kosovo on a path to independence to Serb authorities. Ahtisaari was to travel to Kosovo's capital, Pristina, later on Friday.
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GHETTOISED MINORITY

Kosovo has been run by the U.N. since 1999 when 11 weeks of bombing by NATO forced the late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his forces, accused of killing 10,000 Albanians during a counter-insurgency war.

Kosovo's 100,000 Serbs are a ghettoised minority who saw thousands of their kin flee a wave of revenge attacks with the end of the 1998-99 Kosovo Albanian war for independence.

Rich in Orthodox religious heritage, the province of two million people holds almost mythic status for Serbs, their so-called cradle stretching back 1,000 years.

"We believe the future of the Serb community in Kosovo will be rather grim," Artemije said. "Under the U.N. administration, the situation has been quite tragic for the Serb population and we do not believe it will improve in an independent Kosovo."

He said Kosovo Albanians had used violence and threats to back their claim for independence.

"Once more they are threatening violence if they do not get what they want...The international community must stop any violence and has an obligation to do so."

[Camel Joe]

An independent Kosovo would be the next Sudan as far as the Serb minority is concerned. Just another good reason for wishing Clinton never became President.

[DTA]

Mind how scumbags call Serbs who live in their own country a minority, while they call Albanian minority "majority".

There are around 11 million people in Serbia. Two million live in Kosovo. Some 70% are Albanians, many of them illegal aliens (illegal immigrants from Albania). By any standard, Albanians are minority, not majority. The fact that they live concentrated on less than 4000sq. miles does not change the facts. In some zip codes in U.S. percentage of non-Hispanics is comparable to percentage of Serbs in Kosovo, yet no one call them "American minority"

This fraudulent name calling is clasic propaganda tool, pulled by Communists long time ago. Lenin Communists called themselves Bolseviks (majority) and oponents Mensheviks (minority) although Lenin's faction was in fact a minority.

Condy and State Department claim that 1.5 million Albanians have right to secede because they are "majority" on 15% of Serbian territory. Albanian minority is called "people of Kosovo" to further justify this fallacy.

By any democratic standard 10 million inhabitants of Serbia have the democratic right to reject request of Albanian minority to secede.

It seems that Condy has forgotten what democracy is.