Kosovo prelude to Georgia?

The Washington Times ^ | 7 September 2008 | James George Jatras

[Doctor13]

Thus, while Kosovo's status as part of Serbia is unquestionable, South Ossetia and Abkhazia can make a good case they were part of Soviet Georgia but never the current independent state of Georgia. (The same would apply to Transdniestria with respect to Moldova and Nagorno-Karabakh with respect to Azerbaijan. When will they follow suit?)

In Kosovo, Washington sowed the wind, and now Georgia has reaped the whirlwind. Only a return to the negotiating table to address comprehensively Kosovo, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and similar trouble spots elsewhere can prevent this malignant precedent from spinning further out of control with incalculable consequences for global peace and security. With each step down this road it will be harder to put the genie of might-makes-right back in the bottle.

James George Jatras is a lawyer and director of the American Council for Kosovo in Washington, an activity of Squire Sanders Public Advocacy, LLC, and Global Strategic Communications Group, which are registered agents for the Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija. Mr. Jatras formerly served as a foreign policy analyst of the U.S. Senate Republican leadership. Website: American Council for Kosovo

[marktwain]

NATO violated its founding document to attack Yugoslavia. Milosovitch and his forces were not attacking any NATO country.

I said at the time that the lesson of Bill Clinton's intervention was that treaties do not matter, and the only guarantee of a nations sovereignty would now be nuclear weapons.

[FormerLib]

NATO violated its founding document to attack Yugoslavia.

Amazing that the United States allowed itself to be played this way, but those Monica headlines had to come down.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Monika headlines were over. The headlines at the time were the missile technology transfers to China through Clinton fundraisers.

[Honorary Serb]

I never thought that clinton’s War had much (if anything) to do with Monica, but was undertaken for reasons of empire.

The United States of American needs to get out of the empire business, for our own sakes.

[Honorary Serb]

Ping!

[Lasha]

Thus, while Kosovo’s status as part of Serbia is unquestionable, South Ossetia and Abkhazia can make a good case they were part of Soviet Georgia but never the current independent state of Georgia.===

The guys has ABSOLUTELY no idea what is he talking about. To start with, there was no right for the autonomous republics to remove themselves from republics consisting USSR. The secessionist clause was only found in the USSR constitution, which dealt with 15 republics. The autonomous republics were unquestionably under jurisdiction of the respective republic and Georgian republic did not contain such reference - needless to say, South Ossetia was not even an autonomous republic to start with! On March 31, 1991 Georgia has conducted referendum (held ALSO in Abkhazia and South Ossetia) and voted for independence by overwhelming majority. Abkhaz territory conducted referendum after expelling more than 60% of its population, depriving them of any vote. Insofar South Ossetia is concerned, that was absolute joke to start with, as these has never been any remote resemblance to the state at all - it was a region ran by smugglers, profiting on hijacked cars and illegal trade of spirit with Russia...

[Lasha]

Not to mention the fact that both territories were part of Georgian democratic republic in 1992 - 1921, before it collapsed under Soviet occupation

[Lasha]

Not to mention the fact that both territories were part of Georgian democratic republic in 1992 - 1921, before it collapsed under Soviet occupation

[FormerLib]

I stand corrected.

[FormerLib]

To start with, there was no right for the autonomous republics to remove themselves from republics consisting USSR.

Ah, you mean in the same way that semi-autonomous republics in Yugoslavia had no right to remove themselves?

[Andy from Beaverton]

I’ll never forget. Myself and a guy called “Carl from Oyster Bay” were the only callers into national talk radio talking about a guy named Ira Sockowitz.

[Lasha]

do not know about that - i can only post what I know for sure having read the respective legislative acts...

[SQUID]

Come on Flib. You think they had no idea what was going on?

[FormerLib]

I think it’s a shame that the people of our nation can be pulled into some NWO crap without their representatives even having to approve of the changes to the charter.

I believe our Constitution demands better of our government.