Posted on 11/14/2006 1:33:46 PM PST by kronos77
Belgrade, Nov 14, 2006 - Coordinator of the state team for negotiations on the future status of Kosovo-Metohija Slobodan Samardzic said today that it is evident that at the meeting of EU Council of Ministers, UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari failed to win support of EU countries for Kosovo's independence.
Samardzic told the Tanjug news agency that this is one more in a series of Ahtisaari's failures, in addition to those in the Contact Group and the Security Council.
Now it is clear that there are very opposing opinions on the issue in the EU, Samardzic said, and added that a normal negotiating policy will have to be resumed that will lead to a common, or compomising solution reached by Belgrade and Pristina.
He explained that yesterday's meeting of the EU Council of Ministers in Brussels showed that there are sharp differences within the EU on the resolution of Kosovo issue because Ahtisaari's statement was followed by different opinions of the participants in the meeting.
The position of Spain is very interesting for Serbia, since Spanish State Secretary for the European Union Alberto Navarro stated clearly that Spain cannot support any form of Kosovo independence because in doing so it would violate international law, especially the Helsinki Final Act.
This opinion was supported by Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis and Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu. There are also more EU countries that have a negative attitude on the possible independence of Kosovo.
There is still some common sence left in Europe!
How nice of them to allow the Serbian Republic to maintain there own territory intact.
At least some Euroweenies get it!
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Spain has Basque separatist movement,Catalonia could be next. Romania has Hungarian minority in Transylvania. Greek suffered under the same Turkish yoke for centuries as Serbs and Spaniards. Romanians almost got under the same yoke.
It is very unlikely that any of these three countries will go along. And there are other like these.
And then there's Poland:
November 14, 2006 Tuesday 1:39 PM GMT
AFP: Poland backs a "free and independent" Kosovo, Albanian President Albert Moisiu said Tuesday following a meeting with his Polish opposite number Lech Kaczynski.
"I was pleased to hear that President Kaczynski, Poland and the Polish nation are ready to support us in favour of stability in the Balkans, and for the freedom and independence of Kosovo," Moisiu told reporters during a joint press conference with Kaczynski.
Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, who make up 90 percent of the small Serbian province's population, are demanding independence while Serbia is only prepared to grant the UN-administered region autonomy.
The province has been run by a UN mission since 1999, when a NATO bombing campaign ended a crackdown in Kosovo by Belgrade.
On Monday, European Union policy chief Javier Solana had said that a decision on the status of Kosovo should be delayed until after Serbia held legislative elections in January, to take the wind out the sails of Serbian hardliners.
The Serbian parliament last week passed a new constitution -- backed by voters in a referendum -- that defines the province as an "integral" part of Serbia, but a final UN proposal is expected to grant Kosovo sovereignty.
Kaczynski said that Albania played a "stablising role" in the troubled Balkan region and seemed "close" to joining NATO.
"But the road to European Union membership seems more difficult," he said, although he reaffirmed Poland's support of an "open-door" policy for potential new members of the 25-nation European bloc.
Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the EU in 2004, after more than a decade of preparations following the collapse of communist rule.
Don't France and UK have their own minority groups that seek for independence as well?
Yuck!
You know if Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, and Montenegro all said "No!" to Kosovo independence, there really wouldn't be a damn thing that the UN, EU or the OSCE could do. They would be screwed with any plans they attempted to make, unless they were willing to risk a major war over it -- and I don't think that they are.
If all of these nations claimed this Kosovo independence move for what it is -- "Albanian agression against Serbia", what could any outside nation do?
I don't get it. Do you? What's in it for Poland?
Just crazy. Or maybe because Serbs are friends to Russia? It is depressing.
Or maybe Poland wants to suck-up to someone?
Who knows.
Or some EU country like Germany, who wants Kosovo independence, promised them something that Poland wants in return for this support. Because I really can't see why Poland would give a rats behind as to what happens to Kosovo, otherwise.
What's in it for Poland? I guess you don't recall the historic Polish emnity for Orthodox Christianity, which seems alive and well--it was the Poles who created the False Union of Brest to try to absorb the Orthodox under their rule into the Latin church. The Poles, Czechs and Croats are the three Slavic peoples who were converted to Christianity by the Latins, and have always been somewhat at odds with their Orthodox neighbors.
Though why they are imitating their worst forebearers in this instance, rather than imitating the heroic Polish cavalry that turned back the last Seige of Vienna, is beyond me.
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