Posted on 10/12/2006 2:04:01 PM PDT by kronos77
Plain-speaking Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president who is widely tipped to win the Nobel peace prize tomorrow, let the Kosovo cat out of the bag this week with potentially unpredictable consequences for stability in the Balkans.
As UN envoy charged with brokering a settlement by the end of the year between Serbia and the ethnic Albanian leadership in Pristina, Mr Ahtisaari conceded the negotiations were not going well. In fact, he went further. Agreement on Kosovo’s final status was not on the cards, “at least not in my lifetime", he said. “The parties remain diametrically opposed." The breakaway province might have to wait a little longer for its long-sought independence, he said.
That was definitely not what the US, Britain or most Kosovans wanted to hear. They say 2007 must be the year when Kosovo becomes a sovereign country. And almost regardless of whether this ill-starred entity of about 2 million people with no visible means of support and a dispiriting history of crime, violence and division can be transformed into a viable state, they seem determined, at least in public, to have their way.
Other factors have a bearing. Nato still has more than 16,000 troops tied down in Kosovo seven years after intervening to end the late Slobodan Milosevic’s oppressive rule. The EU has 6,500 soldiers in Bosnia. Both organisations, facing expanding commitments elsewhere and keen to encourage Balkan self-sufficiency, want out.
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Hehehe... just bribr Euroweenee with some madall or nobel proce nomination, and he will chage his oppinion
" Agreement on Kosovo’s final status was not on the cards, “at least not in my lifetime", he said. “The parties remain diametrically opposed." The breakaway province might have to wait a little longer for its long-sought independence, he said.
That was definitely not what the US, Britain or most Kosovans wanted to hear."
Well, its just what this American wants to hear!
funny how the words muslim state are not mentioned....the only reference to religion is the serbian orthodox church's opposition to independance. the islamofascists are counting on kosovo to be their beachhead to western europe but this will at least delay that. A secular country my ass, the muslims want to take it over like they do everywhere else
Bogged down in BJ's "Vietnam".
A vote for "kosova" is a vote for genocide!
In reality, the days of support to Albanian criminals and terrorists are over.
At least in Europe. Sadly, DoS still supports them and NG still trains them.
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