But they want to use it somewhere else, you see!
Posted on 02/08/2006 7:05:35 AM PST by A. Pole
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - A senior British diplomat has told Serbs that independence is the best solution for the disputed Serbian province of Kosovo in talks due within days, Serb negotiators said on Tuesday. "[John] Sawers told us the Contact Group had decided Kosovo should be independent. He said Kosovo would be multi-ethnic, but in the end independent," Goran Bogdanovic, a Kosovo Serb, told Belgrade radio B92, after meeting the political director of the British Foreign Office late on Monday.
A second Serb negotiator in Belgrade, who attended a meeting between Sawers and the Serbian prime minister on Tuesday, said the diplomat saw independence as "practically the only solution to the Kosovo problem".
The Contact Group of major powers has set international policy on Kosovo since 1999, when NATO bombs drove out Serb forces accused of atrocities against the ethnic Albanian majority in a 2-year war with separatist guerrillas.
Serbian and Kosovo Albanian officials are due to meet in Vienna on Feb. 20 for the first round of direct negotiations since the United Nations began a process last year to decide Kosovo's final status.
A British diplomat based in Kosovo said Sawers had delivered the "painful" message that Serbs, outnumbered roughly 20-1 by pro-independence Albanians, should be realistic.
Speaking to Reuters in Belgrade, Sawers said Kosovo's future should reflect the wishes of the majority of the population, echoing a statement issued by the Contact Group last week.
"It's no secret that the aspirations of the great majority of Kosovars are for independence," he said. "Some of these messages are unwelcome".
"UTTERLY UNACCEPTABLE"
The comments stirred tempers in Serbia, which says the amputation of 13 percent of its territory is unthinkable. Rich in Orthodox religious heritage, Kosovo was the site of the Serbs' epic 1389 defeat to the Ottoman Turks and has been key to Serb identity and history for the past 1,000 years.
"It is utterly unacceptable to present one-sided and selective approaches to solving the issue of Kosovo before the talks have even begun," Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said in a statement issued after meeting Sawers.
The ultra-nationalist Radical Party, the country's strongest, said the government should resign and call elections rather than go into talks with the outcome already decided.
Legally part of Serbia, Kosovo has been run by the United Nations since 1999. Ninety percent of its 2 million people are ethnic Albanians who want independence.
Serbia says that is impossible, despite increasingly explicit hints from Western powers that Kosovo cannot return under any form of control from Belgrade.
Sawers told reporters on Monday independence could be "delivered" in 2006 if Albanians showed enough democratic maturity. Western diplomats say this means making concessions to the Serb minority and accepting further international supervision.
Democracy bump!
As soon as Kosovo becomes independent, all the non muslims will be slaughtered or driven out. Thanks Bill, Maddie Soros and the rest of the CFR gang.
Wait til you see what they have in store for us.
Well, the best thing they could do would be to split the place, to minimize people displacement - the northern part [Mitrovitsa] with its Serbs to Serbia, the southern part with its Albanians - independent, since they wish to be. To have significant restive or, even worse, hostile minorities is cost-prohibitive nowadays.
They're laying the groundwork for Aztlan to be gleaned from the Southwestern US.
Odd how they don't mention the Albanians 20-year campaign to ethnically cleanse all non-Albanians from Kosovo when they quote the population statistics.
Of course, our old friend Ronly Bonly bin Laden, used to claim that the Serbs were happier now that they'd been forced from their homes because the news homes were better.
But they want to use it somewhere else, you see!
Pull out of the talks completely since the conclusion is forgone and being imposed. Dissolve the government if necessary so there is no valid authority to participate in the talks.
I wanted to give them full credit for the project they instituted after Tito's death. They certainly intensified the process.
How about since Tito?
The Albanian campaign against the Serbs has been going on for hundreds of years.
The Turkish Sultan at one point told the Albanians to stop killing Christians because soon there would be no one left to pay taxes!
Well, everything else there will result in a bloodbath, if not now, then a bit later. One could argue that if both sides mutually exterminate each other to the last man, the rest of mankind would sigh with relief [true, as both sides are rather unpleasant], but one is supposed to have a humanitarian inclination these days.
Exactly, every American should be concerned with this.BTTT
But Serbia has probably been America's one and only staunch defender in the area, even through WW2.. One of the few places American Soldiers were given aid and kept safe from the Nazis..
Additionally, the West has become a bit more aware of how dangerous Islam and Islamic nations are since the fall of the USSR...
Can we (the west) afford to create another Islamic nation in the heart of Eastern Europe?
Kosovo has surely been no "multicultural paradise"..
The albanians are just as bloodthirsty as ever, and I can see in retrospect that Serbia may have handled the situation harshly, but it looks like they were essentially correct..
An Albanian Kosovo is a future threat..
I'm not sure we can even afford the creation of Bosnia, which has a largely Islamic population..
The west, (both the EU and US) should consider carefully what they are doing..
There is a very good chance that both Bosnia and Kosovo will end up being akin to a "cancer" in the midst of Europe..
It might be best to deal with it now, rather than later..
So the Blairites, for all their help in the WoT (aka 1400 Years War), even after Theo vanGogh, even after 7/7, even after the 'Cartoon War', are still intent on feeding the Muslim crocodile in hopes of being eaten last?
Get NATO out of the Balkans, rearm the Serbs, and let them take care of business.
FR's tag line space is too small for what I wanted to put:
"And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was all about."
--Slobadan Milosevic, to the Kangaroo Court for the Former Yugoslavia, on the occasion when the 'Judges' wouldn't let him show pictures of Serbs beheaded by 'mujahadeen'.
You can shorten it, see below:
F%$king penciledick politicians will sit in their comfy offices while watching the Serb slaughter on CNN. This is going to be one huge injustice. Makes me ashamed.....
Sorry for not including you dude i.e. ping
I concur exactly.....
Tadic Asks KFOR To Protect Serbs In Cernica
BELGRADE, Feb. 7, 2006 (BETA) - Serbian President Boris Tadic asked KFOR to protect the Serbs of Cernica, a village near Gnjilane, against increasingly frequent attacks by Albanian extremists.
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