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.
Rewriting history. What happened in Serbia is one of the biggest fraud’s the US government has served upon us, besides the war in Iraq. Do yourself a favor and find out what really happened.
I know exactly what happened. If the tables were turned, and the Serbs slaughtered and pillaged the Albanians the way they did, but it was the Serbs that were Mus and Albanians that were Orth Christians, you’d be rooting for independence from the highest mountain tops... Don’t even try and deny it... The pro-Serbia folks here have tried to make it about religion- always have, when it’s always been a land issue... And many of you folks fall for it... The Serbs had their chance, for several decades, treated others like 2nd class citizens then try to get rid of them... Over 100,000 were butchered in the Bosnia war- the great majority slaughtered by Serbs, who started the bloodshed, after trying in Slovenia and getting their asseskicked, and killing 10,000 Catholic Croats...it’s easy to see who was the aggressor, and who’s always been, and always will be tied to the corrupt, Commie Russians... THAT’S the story... That’s why nearly the whole world sides against The Serbs in this conflict...bigots here notwithstanding... YOU try doing your homework, with an open mind
The Serbs were the ones being targeted initially, and you’d know that if you’d bothered to have learned anything.
The Albanians began a terror campaign against the Serb, Roma, and Jewish residents of Kosovo in the 1980’s but they are given a pass on this and the Jihadist apologists keep squawking that the Serbs somehow “started it” by fighting back.
The recognition of Kosovo gives much hope to those who dream of reconquering Aztlan.
Your penchant for re-writing history knows no bounds... Up is down, black white, top is bottom... Jeez, give it up already... Yes, the KLA had started squirmishes, but that was after years of brutal repression at the hands of the Serbs...
The conflict in Kosovo had nothing to do with human rights and had everything to do with oil and pipeline right of ways from the Caspian sea. Why dont you read this little piece and enrich yourself from someone who has worked in the international oil industry for 28 years now
http://hannah.smith-family.com/archive/000959.html
Human rights, persecution, ha ha what a laugh. ONly fools believe that.
Wrong, the anti-Serb, Roma, and Jewish pogrom was initiated by the KLA thugs in the 1980’s.
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