Posted on 02/23/2007 12:33:32 PM PST by kronos77
BELGRADE, Serbia: Serbia's ultra-nationalists said Friday the Balkan country should quit the United Nations and abandon its efforts to join the European Union if Kosovo becomes independent.
The comments illustrate the pressure nationalists are putting on Serbia's pro-Western leaders, who have promised to participate in the final U.N.-brokered talks on Kosovo currently being held in Vienna, Austria, although they have rejected the possibility of independence for Kosovo, which is considered the heartland of Serbian statehood and religion.
"If the EU grabs Kosovo from Serbia, we are saying publicly that Serbia must never enter that integration," said Tomislav Nikolic, deputy leader of the Serbian Radical Party — the biggest group in Serbia's parliament.
Speaking after meeting with a delegation from Russia's parliament, the Duma, Nikolic said Serbia "must quit its U.N. membership" if the Security Council accepts the U.N. plan.
officials have hinted that they would consider offering Serbia a shortcut to EU membership if it reconsiders its staunch opposition to Kosovo's independence.
The U.N. Security Council will have the final say on the document, and if there is no agreement in the talks, it could impose a solution.
Nikolic said the Radicals "hope that Russia will veto" the plan in the Security Council.
"If Russia does not do it, we will fight (for Kosovo) ourselves," Nikolic said.
The Radicals have repeatedly said they would urge Serbia's military intervention in Kosovo if the majority ethnic Albanian-populated province becomes independent.
Nikolic, whose party emerged the strongest after last month's elections, said the Radicals hoped to form the country's new government "so we can defend Kosovo."
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Pretty much. Muslims from elsewhere have been moving into Kosovo since the 1400's, snatching up Serb land by force all the way. They escalated in the 20th century by finding two powerful foreign leaders who were willing to assist them in driving out Serbs. The first was Adolph Hitler. The second was Bill Clinton.
laying down with helmet on my head and rifle in my hands... I can take anyone
:)
Total lies. More BS from you. I guess some things never change
"Sure. why not? Why would I want to prevent anyone from self government?" |
Sorry the truth hurts so much, but the shame you should feel for supporting the Jihadists against the Serbs is a good thing.
I know the truth hurts, but David Binder was documenting the results of the Albanian terror campaign against the Serbs in the 1980's and those are facts that cannot be denied.
When the Albanian economy hit rock bottom in 1997, that's when the KLA began their full scale grab.
Ok, now you can return to your defense of the Jihadists.
An estimated 550,000 weapons, 839 million rounds of ammunition and 16 million explosive devices were looted from Albanian army depots in 1997, when citizens enraged over losing their life savings in bogus pyramid investment schemes stormed army barracks.The government since has collected about 200,000 weapons and significant amounts of ordnance. Some 150,000 pieces of looted weaponry fell into militants hands in neighboring Kosovo and Macedonia, while the remainder is believed to still be in people's homes.
http://calibre.mworld.com/m/m.w?lp=GetStory&id=243234921
it went from 20% to 85% in less than a decade. they TRIED to kick thm out and they got bomed for a month by clinton for it.
You obviously know little, or let's say...a selective version of balkan history prior to the 90's resurgence of facist elements in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo...all of which you have supported in this forum.
Mr. Binder wrote of the balkans in the 80's...specifically of Kosovo in the 1980's which took in more illegal albanians from albania in that decade...please note that albania's economy was one in economic decline..that the years '84, '85 and'86 were some of their worst--only to go downhill into the 90's an dunder albanian direction, as they were the ruling group in Kosovo in the 1970's and 80's---the border between Kosovo and Albania was as porous as the Texas border is with Mexico. We need not discuss the ponzi scheme of the albanians, unless you wish to talk about the abundant supply of munitions from the raided military depots that entered Kosovo via albania when anarchy set in...
"The productivity growth rate fell slowly but steadily during the Seventh Five-Year Plan (1981-85), and the annual increase in net material product for the period 1981-88 averaged only 1.7 percent, a figure that did not even keep pace with the country's annual population increase of more than 2 percent. Albania's economy suffered two of its worst years in 1984 and 1985. In 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1988 the net material product decreased, and from 1986 to 1990 it declined 1.4 percent (see Table 5, Appendix). Five years of drought between 1983 and 1988 dealt sharp setbacks to agricultural and hydroelectric power output. Power shortages and other acute problems afflicted two of Albania's main generators of hard-currency income, oil and chrome. As output fell, investment contracted and caused further drops in productivity. Insolvent enterprises turned to the state for bailouts. The shortage of goods circulating in the economy and the government's maintenance of fixed wage levels created repressed inflation and forced saving."
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+al0070)
Refute his "lies". We all want to read facts that dispute his post. Let's hear it.....
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