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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.

You might want to check UNSCR 1244 on that.

In summary, while the interim institutions were in place, as is the case now, Kosovo would be a part of the FRY, albeit one with "substantial autonomy".

Those interim institutions and Serbia's limited jurisdiction would only be in effect until the final status was determined.

And everybody, save for a sizeable portion of the Serbian electorate, has recognized that the final status will be in the form of independence.

Hence Serbia's politicians being unable to act pragmatically in regards to Kosovo, and the Contact Group getting in their faces about it.

I'm sorry StJ..
But "Ethnic Albanians within Kosovo, who we are there to protect, have taken advantage of our goodwill to promote a separatist agenda of their own..."
Applied from the start, during, and after the NATO/EU/US supported destruction of Yugoslavia.