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Serbia urges international community to back off
Financial Times ^ | feb 1st 2006 | Guy Dinmore

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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To: montyspython

:)
Soros:

American-Hungarian-Jewish,

Betrayed America, Hungary and Israel!

What a caracter!

(P.S. Im half Hungarian so I know what they think of him)


21 posted on 02/01/2006 1:18:57 PM PST by kronos77 (Kosovo I Metohija - "Field of Blackbirds And Land of The Monastry" full official name.)
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To: montyspython
You missed the boat.

In Bonly's case, he missed the plane and that's why Atta had to go in his place.

22 posted on 02/01/2006 1:19:44 PM PST by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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To: kronos77

Heh, excellent!


23 posted on 02/01/2006 1:30:09 PM PST by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: FormerLib

Ouch!


24 posted on 02/01/2006 1:32:52 PM PST by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: FormerLib

The 'atta boyz'.


26 posted on 02/01/2006 1:41:15 PM PST by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: FormerLib

I think we can expect the UN to stand up for the islamofacists. Any word on the official US Government stance?


27 posted on 02/01/2006 2:51:18 PM PST by x5452
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To: FormerLib; kronos77; joan

Well, it looks like Ronly-Bonly bin Laden, under his new screen-name, is banned again! Too bad we can't do that to the real binLaden, and to the witch del Ponte and those who hire her!!!!

It's good to see Draskovic standing up for the Serbs rather than pandering to the "international community", for once. Sometimes the outrages get so bad for so long that people can only do the right thing and oppose them!!!!

The del Ponte witch is so very wrong. There are much, much more important things to do that to capture Mladic or Karadzic. Like capturing or killing bin Laden, Zarqawi, and all the other top al Qaeda leaders, putting Ceku, Thaci, and all the other KLA savages out of business, and stopping Iran's drive for nuclear weapons and for world islamic revolution. And it's time to get the "international community" off Serbia's and Srpska's back, and off of ours as well!!!!


28 posted on 02/01/2006 4:37:27 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: kronos77

Of course he betrayed all of them. He proudly considers himself "stateless", and wants to take all of us "beyond the nation-state" as well.

Gospodi pomiluj!!!!


29 posted on 02/01/2006 4:42:04 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised; kronos77
you expect us to believe that?

Not really. Buh-bye.

30 posted on 02/01/2006 5:17:08 PM PST by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised; Santino Sonny Corleone; joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; ..

Remember this screen name?


31 posted on 07/03/2008 1:08:45 PM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: kronos77

the former Yugoslav strongman now on trial? Uh, he’s dead.


32 posted on 07/03/2008 1:24:27 PM PDT by SQUID
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To: wideawake
Politics is corrupt, UN is corrupt, EU is corrupt, NATO is corrupt, US Congress is corrupt, Duma is corrupt. So, what the hell is new?

This is the corruption age and unfortunately this creates fertile grounds for war.

33 posted on 07/03/2008 1:26:41 PM PDT by SQUID
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To: Appalled but Not Surprised

You’ll quickly find that on every Balkan thread, they’re like Pirahnnas, attack everyone and everything, re-write history, are apologists for everything Serbs do, and try to capitalize on the anti-Islam hate, to serve their own needsn even though Kosovo is the most secular, and most friendly to the U.S. Crapola like that comment is commonplace here, and if you notice, with few exceptions, these dolts add nothing to any political discussion... They just lurk on these threads to propogandize and attack... They think FReepers are dumb enough to fall for their lies


35 posted on 07/03/2008 1:35:58 PM PDT by NYC Republican (John McCain- Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory...Doesn't have the stomach or heart to fight.)
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To: NYC Republican

Sorry, I wasn’t listening.


36 posted on 07/03/2008 1:53:41 PM PDT by getoffmylawn ("Tailgunner" is American slang for a homosexual male.)
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To: NYC Republican; FormerLib; Bokababe; eleni121; MarMema; Kolokotronis

“Appaled but not surpised” is a banned account! It was a screen-name used by Ronly Bonly Jones, aka old-and-old, aka The Great Prophet Zarquon, etc., etc.

As for us “try[ing] to capitalize on the anti-Islam hate, to serve [our] own needs,” that’s a bunch of hogwash! I (among others) was warning about the likelihood of major Muhammadan attacks against the US and its allies BEFORE 9/11/01, right here on FR!!!! For my trouble, I was called a Serbian propagandist working out of an office in Milosevic’s Belgrade, and a “foreign hate merchant” peddling anti-islamism to good tolerant Americans. But I am a true native-born son of Red State America!

Now that it is after 9/11/01, we get accused by the likes of you of trying to exploit post-9/11 anti-islamism. How wrong you are!!!!

At least we agree on one thing—neither McCain nor Obama will be a good President. Have a safe and happy Fourth of July, and try to learn about how much Serbian and other Orthodox Christian Americans (of which I am a new one) have contributed to our country!


37 posted on 07/03/2008 1:56:43 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: kronos77

surrender of war criminals


Yes we are still waiting for the Albanian Muslims and their jihadi terrorists to give themselves up.


38 posted on 07/03/2008 2:10:02 PM PDT by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! +)
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To: Honorary Serb

Hey- I don’t doubt they have... I have nothing against Serbs in general, I do have lots of friends from the region - croats, bosnians, albanians, and serbs, and know the region well. What I hate is folks trying to re-write history, and IMHO, that’s what’s happening here, and I’m free to speak out.


39 posted on 07/03/2008 2:36:43 PM PDT by NYC Republican (John McCain- Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory...Doesn't have the stomach or heart to fight.)
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To: SQUID
...Uh, he’s dead.

Squid: Look at the date Kronos posted the article.

40 posted on 07/03/2008 4:18:23 PM PDT by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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