Posted on 12/08/2007 11:19:21 AM PST by OldCorps
A diplomatic train wreck eight years in the making appeared all but certain yesterday as U.S., European and Russian mediators admitted failure in a last-ditch attempt to reach a deal in the volatile standoff over the fate of the Serbian province of Kosovo.
"After 120 days of intensive negotiations, the parties were unable to reach an agreement on Kosovo's status," negotiators said in a report to be officially delivered Monday to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
"Neither side was willing to yield on the basic question of sovereignty," the mediators stated.
In the face of Russian objections, NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels pledged to beef up a 16,000-member international peace force in Kosovo, whose Albanian majority appears determined to declare independence from Belgrade before the winter is out.
The province has been in a kind of legal limbo since 1999, when NATO air strikes drove out the forces of then-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, accused of atrocities and ethnic cleansing against the Kosovo Albanian community.
Serbia, strongly backed by Moscow, has rejected the idea of Kosovo independence and a lengthy United Nations mediation program has failed to produce a compromise. The United States and leading European Union powers are expected to endorse a unilateral Kosovo declaration of independence, but there are huge questions marks over what happens next.
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"Western diplomats have warned against breaking up Kosovo"
Too bad they don't feel the same way about Serbia.
Any intelligent high school student could have seen this train wreck in The Balkans coming. We've seen the same thing happening again and again and again for centuries.
History repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce...over and over and over again.
And we pay these useless chair moisteners in DC the big bucks, why???
Do you fully understand what the muslims have done in Kosovo since sick willie was playing Stud with Monica?
They have destroyed christian icons in Kosovo that are priceless. The Russians and Serbians are keeping score and when hell breaks out, someone is going to pay for the damage and not with money.
I support the Serbs on Kosovo. We had NO business taking the side of the KLA against Serbia, and anyone with half a brain knew that this was going to come back and bite us on our proverbial asses.
And, in being sympathetic with Serbia and Vladimir The Evil's attempts to thwart the misguided policies of our state department and this President, whom I campaigned for, suddenly, I find myself feeling more like a member of The DU than an independent conservative.
We should have let arms determine “Kosovo’s” fate. No nanny-state told us what we should do with Florida or Texas.
bj clinton brought the US in on the wrong side of the war...to support the muzzies....
of course the US troops were supposed to be out by Christmas...bj did not state what year.....
at the pace this is going...the US could be out of iraq before kosovo!!!!
where is the lib/dem & msm outrage????
Time for some medieval merry making. Put the Albanian occupiers, who will not leave,to the sword.
Yes, one of our most terrible mistakes, attacking the Serbs. I sent emails to Cohen imploring him to stop his bombing campaign. We’re on the wrong side again.
Now that's a shocker. /s
A true leader BJ Clinton was. /s
Too immovable, or too invested in BJ's failures?
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