[A. Pole]

The West holds Belgrade responsible

So they do not blame Milosevic anymore?

[StJacques]

Kosovo is an extremely difficult situation with no easy answers.

The West promised Serbia that the sovereignty over the entire province will remain Serbian and we must honor that promise.

Ethnic Albanians within Kosovo, who we are there to protect, have taken advantage of our goodwill to promote a separatist agenda of their own, including violence against the ever-shrinking Serb minority. I do not think the West has held these ethnic Albanians to account to any significant degree, certainly not to the degree we should have.

And we now face the unusual situation in which ethnic Serbians living in Kosovo, who are apparently "giving up" on any chance that the province will ever be returned to Serbia, may be seeking a partition so that they can "hang on" to whatever they can get.

I think the West must be as hardheaded as it can be that the sovereignty over the entire province must remain Serbian. And we will not convince ethnic Albanians of this unless we stand up to the separatists.

We must keep the promise we made to keep Kosovo within Serbia.

[hauerf]

The US bungled in on the wrong side in this matter.

[eleni121]

Somebody had better remind the "west" that undermining civil society in favor of a narco terrorist state does not bode well for the future well being of Europe.

Let Serbia and those who have assumed power in the kosovo region decide what is best. The "west" seems to be pushing elections all over...why not in the matter of kosovo. Let there be a free and fair referendum to decide its political fate...with all Serbians and those Albanians residing in the Kosovo region participating.

[MrCruncher]

Unbelievable.

[MarshallDillon]

KOSOVO IS "IN" SERBIA! First, we should kick the U.N bootlickers out of the USA, then get our troops out of Kosovo, and tell NATO they had no fight there. America made a mistake.

[kronos77]

Bad influence?

Muslim supporters are saying that goverment of sovereighn nation must "drop bad influence" on part of their sovereighn territory? What a boldness!

[Dragonfly]

Latest from Kosovo:

Petersen resigns

12 June 2006 | 16:36 | Source: FoNet

PRIŠTINA -- Soeren Jessen Petersen has resigned as UNMIK Chief due to personal reasons.

“After almost two years of this job, the time has come for me to join my family in Washington.” said the Kosovo Governor.

He added that he is aware that he is leaving at a very crucial time in the history of Kosovo, but is convinced that the political process leading towards a status solution is unfolding well.

“When I arrived in Kosovo, I stressed that I believed that there would be no normalisation or stabilisation in the western Balkans until a solution for Kosovo is found. It is the last piece of the puzzle which will carry the region from the conflicts of the 1990s towards a prosperous future.” Petersen said.