Posted on 01/08/2008 2:50:57 PM PST by kronos77
After the UN Security Council failed in December to reach a compromise on the issue of the status of the Serbian province of Kosovo, the European Union assumed a leading role in implementing a solution. Martin Povejšil, the political director at the Czech Foreign Ministry, sums up the Czech position on the issue of Kosovo’s independence. Martin Povejšil “We have been looking at the issue of how to define the status of Kosovo within the European Union as its members. We have been trying to keep the Czech Republic in the mainstream of the EU. The status of Kosovo obviously needs an urgent solution because the situation there, as it is, is untenable in the long run. It seems that we are approaching a date when unilateral independence will be declared. When we have this document we will study it very carefully and will then decide on further actions of the Czech government, taking of course into account the European debate on that issue.” An opposition MP Kateřina Konečná, of the Communist Party, wants to change this. She says she will motion a resolution in the Chamber of Deputies denouncing any unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo’s Albanians. Kateřina Konečná “Kosovo as such has always belonged to Serbia. If this is not respected, we are really worried that – apart from damaging Serbia – a wave of similar actions in other European countries might break out. This is very dangerous at a time when Europe wants to share a common foreign policy and take common measures in its foreign policy.”
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Considering that the majority of heroin being smuggled into the Czech republic is from Kosovo makes there move a no brainier......
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