Serbia to Offer Kosovo 95 Pct Autonomy (Last offer)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6946411,00.html ^

[kronos77]

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Serbia will offer near complete autonomy to Kosovo during the first face-to-face negotiations with rival ethnic Albanians in New York later this week, a Serbian official said Monday.

The minister for Kosovo, Slobodan Samardzic, said that Belgrade's new proposal includes giving the independence-seeking Kosovo Albanians ``95 percent competence'' in running the province.

``The Serbian proposal is new and specific and offers a form of maximum autonomy not seen in the world today,'' Samardzic said, adding that Kosovo would maintain ``weak and minimal'' links with Serbia.

[kronos77]

[kronos77]

Ping!

[Camel Joe]

So in other words we are pressuring the government of Serbia to allow the continued persecution of Christians at the hands of the Muslim invaders. Swell, just swell. I hope God will forgive us our sins.

[canuck_conservative]

“...Kosovo would maintain ``weak and minimal’’ links with Serbia.”

Yeah sure. Just like Vichy France maintained “weak and minimal links” with Nazi Germany.

This is truly a bogus peace offer, just another excuse for Greater Serbia to keep unwilling peoples under its yoke.

Kosovo deserves real freedom from oft-demonstrated Serbian oppression, and only real independence will satisfy that. And it’s coming soon - which is also the only reason why a scared Serbia is willing to offer a crap “deal” like this.

[FormerLib]

The illegal immigrants from Albania who have used a sustained terror campaign and destroyed hundreds of ancient Christian churches, monasteries, and graveyards should not be rewarded by handing them their own nation carved from the land of another people.

Of course, Jihadists and Dhimmis support the continued persecution of the Serbian and Roma minorities (all the Jews are gone) in Kosovo.

But such is the way of dogs.

[Navy Patriot]

You should ask the Italian Navy about their pleasant dealings with the Kosovars and Albanians. Sweethearts, all.

[canuck_conservative]

A country that continues to harbour convicted war criminals - hello, Serbia, that’s you - doesn’t deserve to keep this land, either.

[canuck_conservative]

why don’t we ask the people of Slovenia and Croatia what they think of the Serbians?

Sweethearts - not.

[FormerLib]

Ah, so you’ve defined a new definition of sovereignty for the Dhimmitude dictionary.

Of course, that also means that Kosovo cannot be recognized as independent due to the war criminals currently holding government office there.

How do these Dhimmwits keep finding FR as a place to post their Jihadist fluffing?

[FormerLib]

Why don’t we ask American Patriots what they think of gutless Canadians?

At least some of you have the stones to fight the Jihadists. Clearly that’s rare.

[joan]

The Kosovo Albanians have mass murdering ethnic cleanser Agim Ceku as their leader. They almost all have ties to illegal activities - smuggling, white-slavery, theft rings, drugs, etc. They don’t deserve another Albanian Muslim country.

[drew]

How about Croatia, you friggin’ moron.

[Honorary Serb]

The Kosovo Albanians are primitives with a clan-based culture, and still live by the code of the blood feud. They are not competent to run a state, and what they have now is run by Shiptar criminals and mass murderers.

Given their muslim orientation, any independent or even "maximally autonomous" "Kosova" would become another pre-2001 Afghanistan!!!! But since Kosovo is in the heart of Europe, it would be much, much worse!!!!

Calling Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo "Greater Serbia" is a big lie. Kosovo is the heart of historic Serbia. The Shiptars have been working very hard to destroy all those historic churches and monasteries and to commit genocide against Kosovo Serbs in order to disguise that fact. They should NOT be allowed to get away with it!!!!

[SQUID]

Someone got paid in the Serb government.

[montyspython]

Not very bright are you...

[Camel Joe]

“A country that continues to harbor convicted war criminals - hello, Serbia, that’s you - doesn’t deserve to keep this land, either.”

Your missing the point entirely, the Albanians are just jihadists and right now they are murdering Christians in Kosovo. I understand that a great number of Muslims have immigrated to Canada. In fact they were just asking the Government to allow the practice of Sharia law. I think they will soon argue that Canada is persecuting Muslims by denying them Sharia Law. Soon they may make a claim for a Muslim autonomy and perhaps a homeland in your country. Claiming persecution at the hands of the evil Canadians. Of course Canada won’t have to suffer the criminal acts that the Christian Kosovars suffered at Muslim hands.

[FormerLib]

Of course, we are thankful for the Canadian soldiers that resisted the atrocities the Croatians were committing against Serb civilians in the Medak Pocket.

And this guys knows the real score, too: “The Kosovo-Albanians played us like a Stradivarius,” wrote the UN Balkans commander, Major-General Lewis MacKenzie, last April. “We have subsidised and indirectly supported their violent campaign for an ethnically pure Kosovo. We have never blamed them for being the perpetrators of the violence in the early 1990s.”

[John Williams]

Hoplite, is that you?

[ma bell]

When was the last time you visited or toured Kosovo or Central/Southern Serbia?

[ma bell]

Why don’t we all ask what Serbs think of Croatians and Bosnian Muslims and while we are at it, we can ask the WW2 era Serbs how they were treated by the muslims and croatians when they were given free reign by the Nazis.

[Banat]

Convicted war criminals? Such as...?

[canuck_conservative]

(Sorry about the delay, I've been super-busy the last few weeks. Here's your partial answer - )

Ratko Mladić [ˈmlaːditɕ] (Cyrillic: Ратко Младић) (born March 12, 1943) was the Chief of Staff of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) (the Bosnian Serb Army) during the 1991-95 war in Bosnia.

Mladić was indicted on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague in connection with the 1991-1996 siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of around 8,300 Bosniak men and boys on July 11, 1995 at Srebrenica.

There is currently an outstanding international arrest warrant against Mladić following the Rule 61 of ICTY which concluded that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the accused has committed the crimes in question including genocide. The United States government has since offered a $5 million reward for his and Radovan Karadžić's arrests.

...Mladić was reportedly seen attending a football match between China and Yugoslavia in Belgrade in March 2000. He entered through a VIP entrance and sat in a private box surrounded by eight armed bodyguards....

...On February 22, 2006, Chief U.N. Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte denied the rumours that Mladić had been arrested, claiming the rumours had "absolutely no basis whatsoever". She urged the Serbian government to find him without further delay, saying that Mladić was in reach of the Serbian authorities and had been in Serbia since 1998. She said that failure to capture him would harm Serbia's bid to join the European Union.

Romanian government and Serbian sources claimed on 22 February 2006 that Mladić was arrested in Romania, near Drobeta-Turnu Severin, close to the Serbian border by a joint Romanian-British special operation carried out by troops of those respective countries. The failure to arrest Mladić is proving to be a major factor in both Serbia's, and Montenegro's efforts to become EU member states.

The May 1, 2006 deadline established by Carla del Ponte for Serbia to hand over Mladić passed, resulting in suspended talks between Serbia and the EU. Mladić is presently believed to be in Belgrade and shuttled between different apartments by a single bodyguard....

(>>Wikipedia)

There's more info out there, just do a search.

[Banat]

Mladich has not been convicted, but rather accused of/charged with some (war) crimes. There is no evidence that he's in Serbia (post-2002). The burden of proof is with The Hague. I don't think his arrest -- or rather the absence thereof -- impedes Serbia's accession progress. The Stabilization and Association deal has already been signed between Belgrade and Brussels.

(I don't think Serbia should ever join the EU, mind you. Norway's not a member, and neither are Switzerland or Iceland.)