UN to debate Serbia's challenge to Kosovo independence

AFP ^ | 21 Sep 08 | AFP

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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The UN General Assembly is to debate Serbia's call for an opinion by the International Court of Justice on Kosovo's independence, a spokesman said Friday.

Enrique Yeves told AFP that the 192-member assembly approved a recommendation of its general committee to have the issue put on the agenda of the assembly's 63rd session, which formally opened Tuesday,

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Ethnic Albanian-majority Kosovo, a UN-run province of Serbia since 1999 when it was wrested from Belgrade's control in a NATO air war, unilaterally seceded from Belgrade on February 17.

Its statehood has been recognised by 46 countries, including the United States and most European Union nations.

Serbia -- as well as Russia, its main ally on the world stage -- reject Kosovo's independence as an illegal breach of its territorial integrity.

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Like any other born and raised American, I say screw ‘em! You messed with the US?!? Forget your actual point! Can we bomb ‘em again just to prove that we own the world? Please?!? After all, they did, God forbid, say the ultimate power (us, duh!) was wrong in bombing the hell out of them in an area they consider sacred Christian ground (Christians....who are those again?) and have fought Islam for centuries to defend, and we thus decided to overwrite history regardless of any international law. To hell with the fact that Serbia never attacked us nor never would, unlike those we support. They regressed to defend garbage some regard as “international law”. Meh....what is international law, really? Outside of what is determined through the entire history of the world and millions of lives lost, a process of accepting the differences in mankind for a belief that laws are created within a purpose, to actually mean something and prevent the more corrupt people who find themselves in a place of power from trying to get greedy? To hell with them....can we kill something?! Yeah, yeah....they’ve been our allies since our ancestors made us what we are...blah, blah, blah....they told us we were wrong this time! Kill ‘em all!

Now don’t get me wrong. There is a reason those in power get there, whether on an individual level or as a whole country. I will defend what is mine and what myself or my family have worked harder than others to attain, yet fighting someone else’s battle I will never do, no matter what my personal gain may be. This country was founded off of hard work and an undeniable faith in a God, a fair and just God. He does not tolerate those that feed off another’s suffering, and quite obviously He does not condone it.

....It’s a damn shame everything I thought this country could accomplish was nothing but an illusion. Greed and power-mongering prevails in the most ignorant folks that have the position to go for the gusto...always. This country currently isn’t, nor never again will be, what it was created for. The chance for all people, regardless of where they came from, to make a positive example of the way life could be through the bare effort of trying to be a good, honest, God-fearing person really means nothing. Living life trying just to be hard-working yet fair to all means jack, because....after all, there’s power to be gained from almost every situation life offers to screw someone over, personally or on a global level.

Yes, your eventual replacements as decision makers were idiotically thinking on a somewhat unattainable Utopian level. But seriously, we thought the effort was what mattered, and thus the mindset was justified. We are your generation “X”. We are the immediate future. We thought we were at least striving to be something of an example for the world. Our mistake. Point taken.