Posted on 02/01/2006 12:09:16 PM PST by kronos77
International pressure on Serbia over the future of Kosovo and the surrender of war criminals is counter-productive and could lead to instability, Vuk Draskovic, Serbia’s foreign minister, warned on Tuesday.
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“The humiliation of the people of Serbia must be stopped,” Mr Draskovic told the Financial Times while visiting Washington for the annual convention in the US of the National Prayer Breakfast to be hosted by President George W. Bush.
Mr Draskovic echoed a warning delivered hours earlier by Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, that independence for Kosovo would fuel demands for independence elsewhere, naming Georgia’s provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia where Russia has powerful interests.
As US, Russian and EU ministers were meeting in London to discuss the future status of Kosovo ahead of UN-mediated talks, Mr Draskovic told the international community not to think about imposing a solution on Serbia, He said the creation of a “second Albanian state” in the Balkans would strengthen the forces still supporting Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav strongman now on trial for war crimes in the Hague, and lead to instability “in Serbia, the western Balkans and Europe”.
“We would face a chain of disaster all over the world,” he said.
The EU and US, according to diplomats, are advancing the possibility of “conditional” or “supervised” independence for Kosovo which has been run by the UN since Nato troops drove out Serbian forces in 1999 to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Albanian majority.
Serbia has proposed “more than autonomy, less than independence” for the province. Mr Draskovic said Serbia’s “territorial integrity”, which meant its borders with Albania and Macedonia, could not be changed.
Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leadership demands full independence, which would include a seat at the United Nations.
Mr Draskovic said the EU would be making a serious mistake if it broke off association talks with Serbia, as urged this week by Carla del Ponte, the chief UN war crimes prosecutor. She wants Serbia put under more pressure to find and hand over Ratko Mladic, the indicted former Bosnian Serb military commander.
Mr Draskovic said Serbia’s government would be in a stronger position to get Mr Mladic if the EU maintained its relations with Serbia and if Nato started “partnership for peace” discussions. He said he did not know where Mr Mladic was hiding.
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Things are going pretty bad...
Why America is pushing Serbia into Russia`s hug?
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You're right. The war criminals should escape justice because the Serbs are corrupt enough to cozy up to Putin.
War crominals?
Aledge Serbian War criminals are evry single politician and high ranking oficer involved in the war, while Muslim indicted war criminals, former primeminister of Kosovo i released from Hague UN until trial with permit to act in politics.
Wanna more?
And than You got USA talking about stealing of Kosovo, and than Russians are coming with their "Brotherly hug".
Who is stupid here?
If Kosovo is stolen from Serbia, democratic, pro-western goverment will get hung on the lamp posts, and Russia will win.
Serbs don`t have to cousy to the Putin.
Putin will just wait that West steal Kosovo from serbia, and Derbs will run to Russia for help.
mathematics.
And Clinton beats Bush over Balkans.
How about exporting Clinton and Wesley Clark to the Hague, or is that too much to ask?
Oh now I remember Clinton's intervention. How did that work out?
And leave George Soros in America?
man, you are ruthless
:)))
Serbia, Kosovo?
Oh now I remember Clinton's intervention. How did that work out?
>>>
The good guys won.
"Good guys won".
So, that is why my girlfriend goes to the beech covered in black sheets?
And I can`t find any pork chops?
So, that is why my girlfriend goes to the beech covered in black sheets?
And I can`t find any pork chops? >>
you expect us to believe that?
I expect you to recognise sarcasm when you see one.
Line, "Good guys won on Kosovo"
:)
Go to sleep.
Here he is "Appalled but Not Surprised" - the former RonlyBonlyJones, Great Prophet Zarquon, etc. - you told me was his current screen name - making his appearance on the Balkan threads again.
I hope that he gets pated for what is he doing, otherwise, it would be realy waist of time.
Papa Soros i generouse.
Yes, good old Bonly boy has returned to do his Islamofascist cheerleading routine through the Balkans threads again.
He just can't wait for more pictures of burning Christian Churches to pour out of Kosovo.
We'll catch the ol'e madjar magarac when he's back home in Hungary.
Just remember that Bonly-boy here considers the 19 9/11 terrorists to be the greatest guys ever. If you keep that in mind, you'll find it easy to ignore any postings from his latest post-ban incarnation.
Actually, no. You missed the boat.
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