Kosovo and a turn of events

14 Sep 06 (Balkanweb.com) – “UN Resolution 1244 will be replaced, whereas the information about postponing the Kosova status solution is speculation,” declared the UNMIK chief, Joachim Ruecker, for Belgrade ’s newspaper ‘Vecernje Novosti’. “It is a good presupposition that Ahtisaari will be able to fulfill the planned terms, and then I would not exclude a new UN Security Council resolution at the end of this year,” said Ruecker.

He said that Kosova’s case is a unique one, so according to him, Ahtisaari will consider all of the facts for his status proposal. “But, Belgrade should be more realistic regarding the possible results and there should not be any attempts for the division of Kosova,” said Ruecker.

NATO Says That The Situation In Kosova Is Under Control 14 Sep 06 (Koha Ditore) – NATO-s foreign ministers next week in New York will discus for the role of the alliance in Kosova. This was stated in Brussels , NATO-s spokesperson, James Aphathurai, during a press conference.

“Kosova is moving towards the status and the ministers want to discus for the international presence in Kosova and after the status to see that which organization what kind of a status it will have” said NATO-s spokesperson.

On Wednesday in NATO-s headquarters in the regular meeting of the North Atlantic Council, talked Gen. Giuseppe Valotto, ex KFOR commander in Kosova. According to the NATO spokesman Gen. Valotto said that the situation in Kosova is stabile and under control at the time when Kosova's status is being solved.

He said that the situation in northern Kosova is considered ass stabile, and NATO continues to monitor carefully the situation. In this meeting it was discussed for KFOR-s reconstruction in Kosova.

During this process all current brigades will be disintegrated and whole Kosova in this mission will be considered as one zone.

So far in NATO there are no official statements regarding NATO role in Kosova after the final status solution, because in the international community there is consensus that and after the status NATO will lead the international military mission in Kosova.

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13 Sep 06 (iwpr.net) – International forces in Kosova have stepped up their police presence in the north of the entity, saying local Serbs need more protection from attacks.

But the local Serb population and officials as well as some Albanian analysts fear the real goal is to ensure the Serb enclave does not unite with Serbia in the event of Kosova being declared independent. Tensions are running high in northern Kosova after a bomb went off on August 27th in the Dolce Vita café, a popular hangout for Serbs in divided Mitrovica.

Local Serbs say if the international police were serious about protecting them, the bombing, which injured nine people, would not have happened in the first place. Serb nerves are on the edge over the likely outcome of status talks on the future of the bitterly disputed territory. In 1999, UN Security Council Resolution 1244 declared Kosova a UN protectorate, although it formally remained a part of Serbia .

The majority Albanian population insists on an independent state, while Belgrade and most Kosova Serbs staunchly oppose the idea. Talks on Kosova's final status started in February in Vienna but have yielded no results. While the representatives of Prishtina and Belgrade are at loggerheads, the mediators in the process - the UN and the so-called Contact Group of countries the Balkans - insist negotiations must wrap up this year.

The Contact Group has already established ten principles for Kosova’s future status. Among them are the decrees that Kosova will not be divided, will not unite with any other country and will never return to the status it held before 1999. Serbia fears the international community may then impose its own solution, which will involve some form of independent statehood for Kosova. The UN's human rights arm, UNHCR, supports the claim of official sources in Serbia and Montenegro that around 223,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma and other minorities have fled Kosova since 1999. Serbs remaining in Kosova, meanwhile, have been on the receiving end of frequent attacks by Albanians who especially target the isolated enclaves Serb south of the Ibar River , which runs through Mitrovica. Nor has the mainly Serb north of Kosova escaped attack. Early in July a Serb youth, Miljan Veskovic, was murdered in Zvecan, in northern Kosova. In protest, three northern Serb municipalities suspended all cooperation with Albanian controlled institutions in the Kosova capital, Prishtina.

The international forces in Kosova, known as KFOR, have now established a military base in the northern town of Leposavic , deploying about 300 soldiers. The UN administration, meanwhile, is planning to send an additional 500 international police to the area. UNMIK police commissioner Vein Hissong said on August 9 that the extra police were coming at the request of the local Serb authorities. A KFOR representative, Lieutenant Colonel Bertrand Fayet, said the two companies of a German battalion, now stationed near Leposavic, would remain until the end of September when units from other tactical KFOR forces will replace them. Fayet told Balkan Insight that the beefed-up military presence was meant to "reassure and calm down the local population". But Slavisa Ristic, mayor of Zubin Potok, a municipality in northern Kosova, told Balkan Insight that Serbs suspected the real intention was to prevent the area from uniting with Serbia . "Otherwise, I see no reason to beef up the presence of police forces," said Ristic. Some Albanians agree. A local political analyst, Nedzmedin Spahiu, told Balkan Insight he also thought the increased presence signaled the international community's determination to prevent Kosova's partition. "The Serbian government wants the partition of Kosova, and this move on the part of the international community is intended to preclude such a development," said Spahiu.

Zivojin Rakocevic, a Kosova Serb media editor from Gracanica, in central Kosova, said the move was a warning to officials from Prishtina and Belgrade who have discussed the possibility of partition.

"This is why the international community has strengthened its presence, sending a clear message that the partition is not a viable option - for the time being," said Rakocevic. The local Serbs share the views of the analysts and Serb representatives. Most are suspicious of the international community's intentions, pointing out that incidents have continued to occur, despite the increased international presence. The bombing on August 27 in Mitrovica bolstered their suspicions. "I used to think safety concerns were the reason to increase the international military and police presence here, but after this incident in Mitrovica I doubt it," said law student Jelena Dabetic from Mitrovica.

She said the UNMIK police were probably preparing for "something much bigger and more sinister", meaning the imposition of Kosova's final status as an independent state. Nebojsa Markovic, another Serb from Mitrovica, agreed. "They are not here to protect us but the administrative border with Serbia ," he said, referring to the international forces, "since the international community fears the Serb reaction in case Kosova's independence is declared".

Markovic said the UN police was acting under pressure of the Albanians, who insist on creating their own state. However, Larry Miller, Mitrovica region's police press officer, said such talk was nonsense.

"The increased presence of international officers in the Northern Mitrovica region is to provide security for all citizens and ensure that rule of law prevails," he said. "These officers have been assigned to Mitrovica, partially in response to requests from local political leaders for increase security. ”Everything else would be pure speculation." ------------------------------------------------

I've long considered Martti Ahtisaari of Finland a Serbophobe simply because he was an agent of the Empire in 1999 and subsequently a Board member of the International Crisis Group. His statement that Serbs bore collective guilt for what (allegedly) happened in 1999 - and, by obvious implication, that Albanians bore no guilt whatsoever, collective or individual, for what has happened since - did not surprise me much.

According to Carl Savich of Serbianna.com, however, there's another reason Ahtisaari is a Serbophobe: during his presidency, he sponsored a monument to Nazis! Savich writes that Ahtisaari's government bankrolled a monument to the Finnish Waffen SS volunteers, some 1400 members of the Waffen-SS division "Wiking." This is in addition to the Finnish troops who fought against the Soviet Union between 1940 and 1945, as allies of Nazi Germany.

Retired NY Times reporter David Binder wrote that Ahtisaari was one of the Finns displaced by the Soviet invasion of Karelia during the 1940 Winter War. So, it stands to reason he would have anti-Soviet (and anti-Russian, by extension) sentiments. A lot of the early 1990s Serbophobic propaganda endeavored to present Serbs as "Russians lite." Ahtisaari would have absorbed this propaganda when he was involved in the early EU efforts to mediate the conflict between Yugoslav republics - efforts that failed miserably when Germany strongarmed the rest of EU countries into recognizing the unilateral secession of Slovenia and Croatia.

So, Ahtisaari has a family history of being displaced by Russians; his country was allied with Hitler in WW2; he sponsored a monument to Waffen SS during his presidency, and he was in position to acquire anti-Serb bias as a diplomat involved in Yugoslav affairs in the early 1990s. I'm no psychologist, but I can see how all that would predispose him towards, say, Kosovo Albanians - who were actually allied with Hitler themselves, but claimed they were victims of "Serb Nazis," and came up with horror stories accusing the Serbian authorities of the most heinous crimes. Although these stories have never been substantiated, they served as the propaganda justification for NATO's invasion, so anyone involved in that enterprise cannot afford to disavow them. And Ahtisaari was very much involved.

But the issue here isn't whether Ahtisaari is biased. That's been obvious even without these background details that have recently emerged. The issue is what to do about him? Would his sponsorship of the Waffen SS be enough of a political tarnish to have him removed? Or are charges of sympathy for the Nazis taken seriously only when their target is an enemy of the Empire, not its agent?

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Comment: What if action in N.Mitrovica was provoked and the Albanians riot, and KFOR enters N. Mitrovica and you can guess the rest...then it is a DEAD serious situation indeed as Ruskies and others aren't likely to take it kindly. If we were trying to recreate a cold war scenario, we are going about it the right way.

It's been planned and designed this way and so far going according to plan by the NWO groups.....However, the snag is if the 1244 is not changed and they end up partitioning, oh my....The U.S. and EU will not be happy campers. My administration from Bosnia until lied all the say with partial truths and fabrications. The Serbs did murder POW's, and Muslims, KLA murdered and beheaded Serbs. Plus, the Serbs were being cleansed from Kosovo under our and the UN's noses since 1999. Other than that, the weather is pretty good and cold in the winter.....

>> Would his sponsorship of the Waffen SS be enough of a political tarnish to have him removed?

Umm I can reassure you that the waffen SS ceased to exist. There have been lot's of complaints about their behaviour (conquering, occupying, some btu not all even helping in mass murder and ethnic cleansing). Because of the convinving nature of these complaints the former german reich decided to not longer support the existence of this orgaanisation.

So there's positively no way you can financially support them. You can only express your dull mind by chipping in for a statue made from plaster.

But then again I see people referring to these 12 years of my homecountries history every day:

- crude and unresearched nazi comparisons as seen everyday on freep (hitlery and so on),
- attempts of fraternization with ceased dictatorships such as the one of the actor playing the Iranian president (hey you germans are in jew killing too, right ?)
- historically completely incompetent japanese football commentators (italy and germany have quite good teams but they coopereated quite well in WWII so that's no wounder)

You only read the word Hitler or Fascist and your about sure it's BS that follows.

My spelling is horrible lately...I don't focus on the spelling of others for sure....I look for what they say. righto.../

The bottom line is a big battle between the NWO and Isalm taking shape. The NWO is loosely made up of U.S. and EU very long story short; to include Germany of course. and Islam on its own Agenda. The two will come to a very ugly confrontation. The U.S. and Germany is continuing what was started in 1944....from the BK to Kosovo Independence today...........

This article tells a lot of what is going on....

http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/057.shtml

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