Posted on 09/19/2007 10:49:25 AM PDT by montyspython
Kosovo Independence Dead International negotiators have announced that independence for Kosovo is no longer an option in talks to establish a viable status for this Serbian province and instead international negotiators, known as the troika, will focus on an "internationally supervised status for Kosovo". "I would say that we will try to reach a status solution which will provide for an internationally supervised status for Kosovo. I would leave open independence. I would rather talk about a strong supervised status," said a troika member Wolfgang Ischinger who is from Germany. The end of the road for the Kosovo independence is likely to infuriate Kosovo Albanians who have repeatedly stated that they will resort to violence if the world does not heed to their demands to get independence. "We are going there [to London] as a state ... we want to talk about technical issues between two independent states and we want to discuss issues beyond independence," said Agim Ceku, Kosovo Albanian leader of the province. Ischinger fiercely dismissed this approach. "The label is worth nothing. Where are they [Kosovo Albanians] going to get their income from? They would continue to rely on foreign aid," said Ischinger. Ischinger also dismissed the previously proposed plan by the Finnish diplomat Martti Ahtisaari that called for a supervised independence for the province. "I would not insist on the Ahtisaari package, but it's not off the table," Ischinger said. Kosovo is a Serbian province dominated by ethnic Albanians after they have expelled over two thirds of the Christian population in order to establish a monoethnic and purely Muslim state. Less then 3,000 people have died during the 1998-99 Muslim violence against the Serbian forces that were attempting to defeat the separatists. NATOs bombardment of Serbia in 1999 has frozen the conflict.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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Muslims resorting to violence...who’da thunk it?
A UN controlled territory in Kosovo is much much worse
What, didn’t the clintons have an exit strategy?
Seriously, this is great news. Robbing Yugoslavia of a province and handing it over to drug running terrorist thugs was not a good plan.
Yeah, we know how well the UN is running things in the West Bank.
I mean this seems to be heading towards their goal of actually having UN-owned territory. An actual ‘international territory’ not part of another country
Kosovo belongs to Serbia.
And after reading more on the topic, and especially a BBC Have Your Say forum where Kosovans and their supporters were represented (FR seems to only have Serbians, or if there are Kosovan Serbians here, they're not contributing much on these threads), have come to support Kosovo remaining a part of Serbia--the Kosovans made a fairly poor argument, at least from an American cultural worldview.
However, yet again, the headline and the premise of the article figuratively flies in the face of the obvious. In December, unless the United States (and to a lesser extent the big members of the EU) change their opinion, Kosovo could declare independence and quickly gain international recognition from powerful nations.
Not so fast. This *is* in the Balkans.
Kosovo is Serbia, but that doesn’t mean NATO is finish messing up the Balkans.
“Ischinger, the EU envoy in the ongoing Kosovo talks, has contacted the province’s president by phone, the Albanian language daily says, “in order to deny the Tuesday assessment of the British daily Independent that the international community was giving up on its support for Kosovo independence.”
The daily adds that Ischinger told Sejdiu the British newspaper had “misinterpreted his words and had thereupon brought a wrong conclusion.” “
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2007&mm=09&dd=19&nav_category=92&nav_id=43890
As much as I applaud everyone not giving-in to independence for Kosovo, it seems to me that the UN loves nothing better than establishing a permanent role in “supervising” nations/territories; also a very bleak prospect for the area.
I hope a camera catches the expression on war criminal Ceku’s face when the Serbian police place him under arrest.
Have the Clintons war been lost?
I dunno....some Albanian Ponzi scheme maybe?
Bump!
Damn it!!!!!!!!!!! And I am serious.
An Internationally run Kosovo is the same as Independence because we know that the international (idotic) burocrats will eventually try to Force Kosovo Independence, just seeing this (stalemate) as a temporary defeat: If I were Serbia I would say, no: now get your butts off my land!
Not if the Russians have anything to do with it. Partition is the only viable solution for Kosovo.
And after reading more on the topic, and especially a BBC Have Your Say forum where Kosovans and their supporters were represented (FR seems to only have Serbians, or if there are Kosovan Serbians here, they're not contributing much on these threads), have come to support Kosovo remaining a part of Serbia--the Kosovans made a fairly poor argument, at least from an American cultural worldview.
The Kosovar Albanians have been playing very loosely with the facts and have attempted to rewrite Kosovo's history, quite pathetic really. They claim that the Serbian Orthodox monasteries that they have so casually destroyed are actually former Catholic churches... laughable yet sad.
However, yet again, the headline and the premise of the article figuratively flies in the face of the obvious. In December, unless the United States (and to a lesser extent the big members of the EU) change their opinion, Kosovo could declare independence and quickly gain international recognition from powerful nations.
There is more descent in the EU than you think, many fear what and independent Kosovo could do to Europe. Tito allowed Kosovo to drain Yugoslav resources with impunity, Europe would suffer the same fate by becoming Kosovo's defacto "sugar daddy".
They can "declare" whatever they want, this time NATO won't step in on their behalf.
Heroin and white slavery, it’s no wonder Clinton is so revered in Kosovo.
lol......you’re right
The more reason to get the UN out of New York before it starts attempting to run US immigration policy.
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