Posted on 06/10/2006 7:24:49 PM PDT by A. Pole
PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - Serbia must drop its "negative" influence on Serbs in Kosovo and tell them to re-engage with the ethnic Albanian majority, the major powers said on Thursday, as a decision nears on the province's fate.
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The West holds Belgrade responsible for a Serb boycott of political life in the United Nations-run province, which it says is complicating efforts to decide Kosovo's future this year in U.N.-led talks.
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Diplomats say the West favors independence. But with a decision due within the year, signs of resistance among the Serb minority are growing, with the explicit backing of Belgrade.
Leaders of 50,000 Serbs in the north, which runs adjacent to central Serbia, said last week they had cut ties with the capital Pristina over a spate of shootings they blame on ethnic Albanians.
The 17,000-strong NATO peace force plans to reopen an old base in the north to bolster mobile units, reflecting growing concern that Serb resistance there could escalate into a unilateral bid to partition the province.
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So, it's been decided by everybody by the Serbs? In what treaty did they decide this matter? Or, it's just opinion of some people/ countries?
KOSOVO IS "IN" SERBIA! First, we should kick the U.N bootlickers out of the USA, then get our troops out of Kosovo, and tell NATO they had no fight there. America made a mistake.
Just a guess.
At any rate, the majority of the remaining Serbs aren't in Mitrovica and its environs - they're still in various enclaves south of the Ibar, and the possibility of a partition of Kosovo has been taken unambiguously off of the table by those making the seating arrangements.
The Contact Group Guiding Principles of November 2005 make clear that there should be: no return of Kosovo to the pre-1999 situation, no partition of Kosovo, and no union of Kosovo with any or part of another country. source
As far as I'm concerned, if the Serbs and K-Albanians can work something out amongst themselves that they can both live with, more power to 'em.
TEXIANS fought and WON a victory over Mexico without interventions from foreign powers. Soon, hispanics will out-populate Texas. Does this mean we should return the land to Mexico? The U.S. should never have backed partition of Kosovo from Serbia.
Serbia never attacked any NATO country, and the NATO charter never mentioned invations of outside countries without direct attacks on NATO members.
America made a mistake in Kosovo. Texas Senators agreed and were againts bombing Kosovo.
Your guess is good, but it doesn't make any sense. Those folks are not Madisonian pluralists, and don't like each other. The serbs in the yellow areas up north if Kosovo goes independent will probably decamp in a panic.
Actually about 80% of the remaining Serbs are in those three yellow cantons, and have tended to aggregate there. The Serb population there has gone up quite a bit, and the Albanian poulation has disappeared. About 50,000 serbs live in those three cantons, and I suspect about 25,000 are scattered elsewhere.
Moronic Muslim Jihad sympathizer. Retard! Madeline Albright would be proud. You'll never get what that war was about.
All talk about partition of Kosovo becomes an agenda for those who may be eager to reignite the divisions and the flames of the past. Partition would betray European values of integration and coexistence. Partition would also sacrifice the 60 percent of Kosovo Serbs who do not live in the north.
SRSG Petersen, 2/24/05
Feh. Once more, into the breach, courtesy the OSCE Municipal profiles
| Municipality | Kosovo Serbs |
| Decani | 22 |
| Dragas | 0 |
| Dakovica | 6 |
| Glogovac | 0 |
| Gnjilane | 12,300 |
| Istok | 540 |
| Kacanik | 0 |
| Kamenica | 10,500 |
| Klina | 94 |
| Kosovo Polje | 3,239 |
| Leposaviq | 18,000 |
| Lipljan | 9,300 |
| Malisevo | 0 |
| Mitrovica | 10,447 |
| Novo Brdo | 1,400 |
| Obilic | 3,425 |
| Orahovac | 1,300 |
| Pec | 1,000 |
| Podujevo | 27 |
| Pristina | 12,000 |
| Prizren | 194 |
| Srbica | 326 |
| Strpce | 9,099 |
| Stimlje | 0 |
| Suva Reka | 0 |
| Urosevac | 147 |
| Vitina | 3,300 |
| Vucitrn | 4,137 |
| Zubin Potok | 14,000 |
| Zvecan | 12,050 |
| TOTAL | 123,973 |
Ergo, of 123,973 Kosovo Serbs, 44,050, or 35.5% live in the three municipalities in question.
You lost, and lost big.
Deal with it.
I remember the Alamo!!
Does this mean we should return the land to Mexico?
And yes, the logic being used to have the UN rip away Kosovo from the rest of Serbia is the same argument the "La Raza" types in the US can use to break up Texas and the other southwest states. By the proposed granting of Amnesty we are inviting these members of another state into the US without assimilation just like Tito did in Yugoslavia with the Albanians.
America made a mistake in Kosovo.
The US should have sent more weapons to the Serbs (maybe the Croats but they were being a bit sneaky at the time) and looked for ways to curb the radical Muslim element in Bosnia.
But then, the New World Order had already decided how it was going to be in FRY by the Bush I administration. That Clinton used the conflict to deflect criticism of his administration is no surprise. I had hoped that Condi Rice, having deep knowledge of things Russian and Slavic, would have encouraged GW Bush to reconsider our policies in the Balkans but alas, that was not to be. Instead we got our "Thank You" from the Islamic militants in the form of 9/11.
Hope you're lurking from wherever you are!
What's your Muslim name?
KOSOVO IS "IN" SERBIA!
Yes it is.
I have heard that they will not forget.
And time goes on for a LONG time.
They were under the yoke of the muslims for centuries, but they changed that.
They will not forget that their very land, ancient churches, and their Trepca mining complex (3rd largest mining complex in the WORLD) were stolen from them by SOROS stooge Bill Clinton, and Jack Frost, and NATO and the SOROS bankrolled "human rights" groups.
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