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Independence for Kosovo would open up a Pandora's box of separatism and lead to new ethnic conflicts in Europe, the foreign minister of Serbia-Montenegro said on Monday

A little late, Mr. Foreign Minister. There were plenty of ethnic conflicts in the 1990s as the various entities of the former Yugoslavia were tripping all over each other getting away from Belgrade: first Slovenia, then Croatia & Bosnia & Macedonia & Kosovo. Next year Montenegro is holding a referendum on breaking away and if the Serb nationalists keep it up in their remaining province of Vojvodina, the ethnic-Hungarian minority there will be next to go.

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A little late, Mr. Foreign Minister. There were plenty of ethnic conflicts in the 1990s

So that's a reason to fuel even more of them?