Posted on 12/02/2008 1:15:37 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Several thousand demonstrators took to the streets of Pristina, Kosovo's capital, on Tuesday to protest the planned deployment of a European Union judicial mission that many ethnic Albanians fear will partition the new country.
The protesters marched through the city center holding banners saying "No Partition" and "Kosovo Is Ours," witnesses said. Some chanted "Thaci is a traitor," referring to Kosovo's prime minister, Hashim Thaci.
Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership declared independence from Serbia in February after nine years of being administered by the United Nations.
At issue now is who will control the country. Under a six-point plan agreed to last week by the United Nations Security Council - and backed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, Belgrade and the European Union - the 2,000-strong EU mission would be deployed under a UN mandate and would take a neutral position regarding Kosovo's independence.
Pristina has rejected that element of the plan, arguing that it is an infringement on its sovereignty and insisting that the independence of Kosovo be respected. But Thaci has nevertheless agreed to cooperate fully with the mission, on the grounds that it will help preserve peace and stability across the territory.
Albin Kurti, one of the organizers of the protest Tuesday, said that accepting the deployment of the EU mission was unacceptable because it would undermine Kosovo's hard-earned sovereignty. Opponents of the six-point plan say they are concerned that it calls for the creation of separate chains of command for Serbian and Albanian police forces operating in Kosovo; the police in the ethnic Albanian areas would report to the EU while Serb police officers in the Serb-dominated northern part of the country would report to the United Nations.
Critics say that such an arrangement would entrench a de facto partition of the country....
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They partitioned Kosovo from Serbia and now they get upset because Kosovo may be partitioned???
Anyone notice that there was not a single "Kosovo flag"? All Albanian flags.
An "independent Kosovo" is nothing but an Albanian takeover of Serbian land -- and now the Albanians are bitching because they can't have complete control over all of it.
"it is an infringement on its sovereignty and insisting that the independence of Kosovo be respected.
Problem is that they believe their own bs !
They want it all and then some. Too much is not enough for Islam. The Bush administration went along with Clinton on this whole thing.
They want it all and then some. Too much is not enough for Islam. The Bush administration went along with Clinton on this whole thing.
It looks like this imcredibly stupid Balkan fiasco sponsored by this stupid government both CLinton and Bush led - is leading to another you know what.
Calliong Medvedev..calling Medvedev...
Where are you getting this idea from?
Issat right?
Let me just ask, before going any further; "Who are we?"
See my name.
Well, my friend Eleni I think the status quote will not change much even with Obama. The neocons are very happy with the Obama cabinet because it doesn't impede on their manifest destiny plan for the world and the world order Bush Sr. talked about.
Yia sou back!
You wrote:
“The neocons are very happy with the Obama cabinet”
You just ripped off a chunk of their country ! You expect them to make it easy for you? If you do, then you really are "that dumb"!
Albania for Albanians.
Albania for Albanians.
Kosovo is Serbia.
Peace and justice will return to Kosovo alongside the Serb Army.
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