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| Independence is Only Solution for Kosovo, Un Envoy to Insist |
| 2007-03-22 |
| The UN envoy seeking to settle the Kosovo conflict between Serbia and ethnic Albanians will tell the UN security council next week for the first time that independence is the only viable option for the province in the southern Balkans. Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president, who has been vainly seeking to mediate a deal between the Serbian government and the ethnic Albanian leadership for more than a year, is to present his settlement terms to the security council in New York on Monday. He will say that eight years of international administration of Kosovo has to be ended, that the province cannot return to Serbian sovereignty, and that the time has come to settle Kosovo's status. However, Russia has threatened to veto the plan if it was opposed by any party. "If there are attempts to impose on the Serbs something which is unacceptable to them, that would be unacceptable to us as well," Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister, told the Russian parliament. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 IMO, Serbian Army (and this time they should actually do everything EUrodrekes have accused them of) is the only solution for Kosovo. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-03-22 11:20 |
| #2 Clinton accused Serbs of ethnic cleansing, and waged war on their country. Serbs claimed that the intervention would spell the end of the Orthodox church in Kosovo, once Albanian Muslims were hand delivered power by slick Willy. Historical verdict on Clinton: guilty of cultural genocide against Serbs. Sentence: life imprisonment on one of the Aleutian Islands, with the concession that he may take his wife with him. We fought the wrong side; it is a mistake to hand further triumphs to the enemy. |
| Posted by: Sneaze 2007-03-22 04:38 |
| #1 REGNUM.RU > THERE IS ALSO THE REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS. Kosovo crisis is similar to schemes which have heavily damaged or encumbered several post-USSR states. OTOH, Kosovo is viewed as already sovereign and independent ergo UNO can give it recognition as such. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-03-22 02:50 |