Posted on 09/16/2007 7:10:41 AM PDT by kronos77
Given ICG efforts to undermine and prejudge the outcome of the ongoing round of talks between the Kosovo Albanians and Belgrade in advance, the EU’s representative to the Contact Group, Wolfgang Ischinger, has urged both sides to “think outside of the box” – to even consider partition if both sides want it. Previously the Contact Group had considered such talk taboo. However, if one is to really “think outside of the box”, then one might well imagine that Belgrade may want to table other issues – which might promote flexibility and encourage them to consider trade-offs. Among these might be a “green light” for the Srpska Republic to leave an obviously dysfunctional Bosnia-Herzegovina to join their brethren across the Drina River in Serbia; an agreed autonomy for the Krajina Serbs of Croatia, as set out in previous UN-brokered negotiations; and finally a “dual autonomy” for Kosovo that would give the Serbs and Albanians their own symbols, schools, religious institutions, police, and local governing bodies. Each community could have its own banks; and both could have tariff-free trade and other services with Serbia and Albania respectively. Kosovo could enjoy representation in inter-national organisations, as others do, but not full sovereignty. As with being pregnant, there is no half way house to “independence”. A second Albanian state in the Balkans is not needed – nor is it desirable, as it would set a very unfortunate precedent internationally.
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Thanks for the ping. Lots to learn.
First series of thoughts on the issue:
1. If the UN is involved, it will be decided as poorly as is possible for the human mind to conceive.
2. The Albanians seem to be playing the same crap that the Pakis play in Kashmir India. Conquest through immigration. There’s much historical precedence for muslim populations reverting from a failed military conquest to conquest by immigration.
The partition of Serbia (Kosovo) will lead to more terrorism and the demand for partition of Macedonia, Montenegro and Greece.
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