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Europe
Serbia says it wonÂ’t trade Kosovo for EU
2007-12-11
Nope, nope, can't do it, nope ...
BELGRADE - Serbia is not prepared to trade off Kosovo’s independence for any deal with the European Union, Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said Monday as EU powers backed the province’s statehood. ‘There will be no trade of Kosovo for Europe, nor will Serbia ever accept it, and nobody’s offering it,’ Djelic told journalists in Belgrade, according to state-run news agency Tanjug. ‘The European Union isn’t a country, isn’t a member of the United Nations, and nor will it be a part of the process on Kosovo.
The Euorpean Union isn't necessarily a democracy, isn't a republic, etc., etc ...
‘That process belongs to the UN Security Council and all member countries of the United Nations, but in no way the European Union,’ said Djelic.
And the UN is doing a sterling job in Kosovo, every bit as good a job as they've done in Darfur and the Ivory Coast ...
Serbia and the European Union last month initialled a so-called Stabilisation and Association Agreement, considered the first stepping stone for Western Balkan nations on the path to eventual EU membership. The act of initialling the SAA has symbolic but little legal value, ...
... as is all things EU ...
... only meaning that Belgrade and Brussels approve the content of the agreementÂ’s text.
Posted by:Steve White

#2  We should pull our troops out and send them to Afghanistan. Let Europe worry about Putin's Russia or aggrieved Kosvo Muslims on their doorstep.
Posted by: danking70   2007-12-11 10:37  

#1   do not see a reason to give independence to Kosovo.
Kosovo was never a state, but just a region within Serbia.
It was part of the Ottoman Empire(as well as the whole region of the Balkans) and part of greater Albanian nazi state.

The only argument is that Albanians make more than 90% of the population.
Albanians laso treat with the violence if they do not gain independnce.

What about Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia?
They where forced to accept the goverment and internal borders of the former Yu republics.
SO why do not we expect the same form the Albanias?
International law, histoy and moral values scream:Kosovo is part of Serbia. And that's the way how it should stay.

Posted by: cinoeye   2007-12-11 10:27  

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