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Kosovo independence unacceptable to Serbia
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Posted on 02/07/2007 1:27:14 PM PST by kronos77

Belgrade, Feb 7, 2007 – President of the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija Sanda Raskovic-Ivic stated last night that Kosovo independence is unacceptable to the Serbian side as the solution of the province's status, adding that there are realistic reasons for postponing the talks until after new Serbian parliament is formed.

Raskovic-Ivic told RTS television last night that the government lost its legitimacy after the elections of January 21 and the Serbian President was the only legitimate representative who could meet with UN Special Envoy for Kosovo-Metohija Martti Ahtisaari when he presented his plan for the province's future status to Serbia.

She said she expects that Ahtisaari shows understanding for the Serbian side's demand for putting off the talks, bearing in mind the recently held parliamentary elections, which must be repeated at several polling stations. After that, new parliament is yet to be set up, she added.

Raskovic-Ivic recalled that the talks were postponed when Kosovo-Metohija President Ibrahim Rugova died, even though Kosovo Parliament Speaker could have taken his place for the talks.

It is unlikely that Serbian parliament will be established by February 13, said Raskovic-Ivic and added that the new parliament is to appoint a new negotiating team or give legitimacy to the current one. It is also necessary to bring innovations into the platform thus including in it responses to Ahtisaari's proposal.

President of the Coordinating Centre said she hopes Russia will use its right to veto the possible solution to Kosovo status, adding that China may do so as well since these two countries are advocating the respect of international rights and Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

She said that the division of Kosovo-Metohija is unrealistic at the moment since that would mean that Serbia is giving up on its stances. She also stressed that the negotiating team was given mandate to protect Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity on its entire territory.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antichristianity; balkans; clintonlegacy; democracy; freedom; islam; kosovo; selfdetermination; serbia; wrongside; wrongtime; wrongwar

1 posted on 02/07/2007 1:27:17 PM PST by kronos77
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To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 02/07/2007 1:27:42 PM PST by kronos77 (-www.savekosovo.org- and -www.kosovo.net- Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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To: kronos77

An unacceptatible proposition for all civilized people!


3 posted on 02/07/2007 1:58:10 PM PST by eleni121 ( + En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great))
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To: kronos77

Bump!


4 posted on 02/07/2007 2:01:33 PM PST by F-117A (Mr. Ahtisaari, give Sápmi it's independence! Free the Sami!!!)
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To: F-117A

Serbia will never give up those Nickel Mines.


5 posted on 02/07/2007 2:03:07 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: eleni121

But how do they feel about it in the Balkans?


6 posted on 02/07/2007 2:54:43 PM PST by GAB-1955 (being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
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To: kronos77

You will be reading similar stories concerning our southwest in about fifty years.


7 posted on 02/07/2007 2:56:09 PM PST by Whispering Smith
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To: Whispering Smith
More like about five...

Aside from everything else you could say about Kosovo, one victim name seems to stand out from what I get trying to read about the thing, and that would be the name of Milica Rakic, who seems to have been made into an orthodox saint after being killed by the NATO operation at the age of three:

Anybody who follows this stuff know whether that first image is just a Serbian thing or whether the orthodox church itself has actually cannonized this little girl?

I mean, if that's actually the case, that would seem to seal Slick Clinton's "legacy" for all time; he'd go into the history books on the same page as the ****heads who burned Joan D'Arc at the stake.

8 posted on 02/08/2007 5:57:05 AM PST by rickdylan
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To: eleni121; kronos77

Either of you two able to answer the question about the little girl and whether she actually has been made a saint?


9 posted on 02/08/2007 6:59:06 AM PST by rickdylan
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To: Whispering Smith
Actually, I don't think we will. The analogy of Albanians in Kosovo/Mexicans in the United States is weak. Although we may say we have a leftist government, and it is certain Mexico has had a leftist government, we have not experienced fifty years of Communist dictatorship, with the extinction or suppression of opposition movements. The Aztlan supporters in the U.S. are fringe movements. Most Mexicans want to live here and send money back to Mexico, not see Mexican sovereignty here.

Secondly, we have a federal system with strong state governments, which Yugoslavia didn't have. The republics of Yugoslavia couldn't see an alternative in the Yugoslav governmental system between strict union with Belgrade and independence. Our states serve as such alternates. California may tax greenhouse gases, but if Utah doesn't, the industries move to Provo and Bonneville. We also have a system of established civil rights that aren't nationality-based, despite the grumblings about preference we see on line. (We, unlike Zimbabwe, are not confiscating farms based on color).

Furthermore, we are a much bigger country than Yugoslavia/Serbia/Kosovo. We have more room to absorb peoples.

Even furthermore, we are absorbing different peoples. Do you think the Indian immigrants or Vietnamese or Chinese are going to want to live in Mexico? It's more polar in Serbia these days. What about American blacks? Would they want to be in Aztlan or Mexico? I don't think so.

I never heard the argument relating Serbia's treatment of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo to America's policy towards Mexicans in the United States until 1999. I suspect it was invented to justify Belgrade's actions in Kosovo. Its validity is weak, and I have a hard time, having lived 50 years and reading the literature of the past century, to think any "if this goes on" trend will last. It isn't true with the current model of global warming; it wasn't true with population; and the Soviets certainly didn't bury us. Things change too fast to make these sorts of predictions.
10 posted on 02/08/2007 1:20:33 PM PST by GAB-1955 (being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
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To: kronos77; joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ...

hey guys, the NPR with my convoy was just on the other day.. :)) i just found out about it...sorry.


11 posted on 02/09/2007 8:54:00 AM PST by ma bell ("Take me to Pristine. I want to see the "real terrorists", Former Marine)
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To: ma bell
i found the link u can listen to it.. Click for NPR
12 posted on 02/09/2007 9:14:56 AM PST by ma bell ("Take me to Pristine. I want to see the "real terrorists", Former Marine)
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To: eleni121; Wraith; tgambill
after listening to Jamie, who by the way is very cute, she got alot of it wrong. My driver didn't spot the secondary IED, it was Veh 2 driver that spotted the arty shell casing in the ground through his rear view mirror.

The 1st ied was the real one, filled with TNT. the secondary was the hoax. She didnt report that the IP EOD team was "shooting the ied in the direction of my hummer".

but, she emphasized that were on the "wrong side" of the road. We were not ten meters nor twenty something meters away from it. We were at our SOPish distance that we were holding at.

She was cute, but she had her information wrong.

She never mentioned me as she couldnt pronounce my name and every other word was vulgar. My gunner and driver had a view of what was going on as I was blinded by our veh angle.

13 posted on 02/09/2007 10:58:15 AM PST by ma bell ("Take me to Pristine. I want to see the "real terrorists", Former Marine)
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To: FormerLib

go to post 11 and thanks, i got it today...:))


14 posted on 02/09/2007 11:06:02 AM PST by ma bell ("Take me to Pristine. I want to see the "real terrorists", Former Marine)
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To: rickdylan

I don't think there are any child saints in the Orthodox church.


15 posted on 02/09/2007 11:39:31 AM PST by serbami68 (child saints)
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To: serbami68

That's the way I'd figure it, but looking at that picture it's hard to tell.


16 posted on 02/09/2007 1:21:42 PM PST by rickdylan
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To: rickdylan
Actually, the icon depicts an innocent martyr.
17 posted on 02/09/2007 1:42:46 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: ma bell
...thanks, i got it today...

Good news! It was a challenge to keep my daughters from prying open that box before I got it sent off.

18 posted on 02/10/2007 10:24:08 AM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: GAB-1955

I guess we will just have to see which of us has it right. But just to be safe I suggest you start taking Spanish lessons and studying Mexican history.


19 posted on 02/11/2007 6:48:33 PM PST by Whispering Smith
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