Независимое Косово

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Косовары согласны на "поднадзорную независимость"

08.07.2007 11:22 | НТВ

В Совете безопасности ООН идут закрытые консультации по статусу Косова. Спецпредставитель генсека организации в этой провинции подготовил доклад о ситуации в крае. Документ, который представят Совету уже завтра, по сути, продолжает и дополняет известный план Ахтисаари.

Западным дипломатам обстановка в Косове представляется взрывоопасной. По их словам, если сейчас не признать независимость анклава, там начнется новая война. Но российская сторона называет такую позицию шантажом.

Репортаж корреспондента НТВ Дмитрия Хавина.

В православный монастырь Святых Архангелов у косовского города Призрань въезжаешь как в осажденную крепость. В марте 2004 года разъяренные толпы албанцев застали врасплох немецкий контингент сил НАТО, охранявших православную святыню. Монастырь был сожжен, а монахов едва успели эвакуировать. Бундесвер усвоил урок.

Ханс Пацки, полковник немецкого контингента сил НАТО в Косове: "Сейчас мы можем в любой момент эвакуировать монахов на вертолете, у ворот монастыря постоянно дежурит бронеавтомобиль, также специально предназначенный для эвакуации. Однако все это на самый крайний случай, который, как мы полагаем, больше не произойдет".

В Косове действительно сейчас тихо. Православные церкви, как это было в прежние годы, соседствуют с мечетями. Те храмы, что были сожжены, восстанавливаются под патронажем международных организаций.

Только прихожан в них почти нет. По разным оценкам, около двухсот тысяч сербов покинули Косово. В деревне Свенеры, которая была полностью уничтожена в марте 2004, специально для них построена целая улица новых домов.

Правда, живет только одна сербская семья, а остальные приезжают, чтобы продать эти новые дома албанцам. В другие места возвращаются, в основном, старики.

Сегодня Косово практически моноэтнический край, причем у косовских албанцев самая высокая в Европе рождаемость. По каналам ООН и Евросоюза приходит огромная финансовая и экономическая помощь.

Так что фактически Косово уже существует независимо от Белграда. А теперь Запад предлагает закрепить суверенитет и юридически.

Статус, который предлагается сегодня Косово, определяется двумя вроде бы совершенно несовместимыми словами "supervised independence". В переводе на русский язык получается что-то вроде "поднадзорная независимость".

Но косоваров, может быть, за исключением совсем уж крайних радикалов это устраивает - все-таки независимость. Тем более, что надзирать за долгожданной свободой будут все те же международные организации.

А Сербии даже в таком виде окончательная потеря более 15 % своей исторической территории не приемлема, да и Россия грозит наложить вето в Совете безопасности ООН.

Западные политики и международные чиновники пеняют Москве, что больше ждать нельзя.

Иоахим Рюкер, специальный представитель генсека ООН в Косове: "Я думаю, существует опасность, что все, чего мы здесь достигли, может пойти насмарку, если мы быстро не внесем ясность в статус Косова".

Те, кто менее дипломатичен, намекают: если не определиться с независимостью сейчас, то косовары, потеряв терпение, объявят ее в одностороннем порядке. И даже вероятны новые вспышки насилия. С этим категорически не согласны российские дипломаты.

Андрей Дронов, глава Косовского отделения посольства РФ в Белграде: "Говорить о насилии в данном контексте было бы, по-моему, просто не честно и даже некоей попыткой шантажа без особых, в общем, на то причин".

Интересно, что офицеры НАТО самых разных чинов, непосредственно отвечающие за безопасность Косово, тоже полагают, что беспорядки маловероятны.

Ян Травет, подполковник немецкого контингента сил НАТО в Косово: "Сейчас здесь редки случаи насилия, этнических стычек. Их уровень меньше, чем в предыдущие годы".

И получается, что шестнадцатитысячный миротворческий контингент под командованием НАТО вполне в состоянии обеспечить своим политикам время для поиска компромисса. Была бы только на то политическая воля.

http://www.rambler.ru/news/politics/yugoslavia/10718411.html

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Генсек НАТО рекомендовал СБ ООН принять план Ахтисаари по Косово07.07.2007 13:24 | www.rian.ru

БРЮССЕЛЬ, 7 июл - РИА Новости, Елена Муслядинова. Генеральный секретарь НАТО Яап де Хооп Схеффер назвал план Марти Ахтисаари, который фактически предоставляет независимость Косово, "справедливым", сообщает пресс-служба НАТО по итогам саммита, проходившего в пятницу в Хорватии.

"Существует, я думаю, справедливый, основательный и исчерпывающий базис для решения Совбеза ООН, основанный на предложениях Ахтисаари", - цитирует пресс-служба НАТО заявление Схеффера.

Генсек НАТО подчеркнул также, что нужно "предотвратить ненужные задержки поиска решения (по Косово)".

По словам Схеффера, развитие Балканского региона зависит от "стабильности, которая будет укреплена решением о статусе Косово".

С 1999 года Косово находится под управлением ООН, формально оставаясь в составе Сербии. Окончательно решение относительно судьбы автономного края должен будет принять Совет Безопасности, в котором Россия обладает правом вето.

Совбез ООН начал закрытые консультации по проекту резолюции, автоматически наделяющей Косово независимостью после 120 дней, отпущенных на переговоры между Белградом и Приштиной.

Проект, представленный Великобританией, США и Францией, основан на плане, который был предложен весной этого года специальным представителем генсека ООН по этой проблеме Марти Ахтисаари и предполагает предоставление Косову статуса независимости без согласия Белграда.

Москва изначально не поддержала такую позицию, считая, что решение по статусу края должно приниматься с учетом интереса всех заинтересованных сторон на основе переговорного процесса без ограничения по времени.

http://www.rambler.ru/news/politics/yugoslavia/10716258.html

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Президент Сербии не исключил возможность компромисса в вопросе Косова

06.07.2007 20:48 | www.rian.ru

БРЮССЕЛЬ, 6 июл - РИА Новости, Елена Муслядинова. Президент Сербии Борис Тадич на встрече с лидерами Евросоюза в пятницу Брюсселе заявил, что несогласен на предоставление Косову независимости, но не исключил возможность компромисса.

"Мы не принимаем (план) независимого Косова", - заявил Тадич на пресс-конференции журналистам. В то же время президент Сербии отметил, что не стоит "недооценивать способность Белграда достичь компромисса" по косовскому регулированию, однако подчеркнул, что "компромисс не означает независимость".

В пятницу в Брюсселе верховный представитель ЕС по общей внешней политике и политике безопасности Хавьер Солана и глава Еврокомиссии Жозе Мануэл Баррозу обсудили с президентом Сербии проблему косовского регулирования.

По словам пресс-секретаря Соланы Кристины Галлах, перед лидерами Евросоюза стоит задача найти "согласованное решение" для Сербии, руководства этнических албанцев в Косове и для других международных игроков - России и США.

Россия предлагает продолжить переговоры между Косовом и Белградом и считает, что решение проблемы косовского регулирования должно быть приемлемым для всех сторон конфликта. Проект резолюции, представленный США, Францией и Великобританией, предполагает принять план Марти Ахтисаари, наделяющий Косово независимостью, через 120 дней, отпущенных на переговоры.

"Мы должны осознать, что позиции (сторон) остаются разными", - отметила Галлах, подчеркнув, что проблема косовского регулирования является "вопросом номер один в приоритетах внешней политики ЕС из-за его влияния на стабильность (в Европе)".

http://www.rambler.ru/news/world/yugoslavia/10714817.html

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U.N. Chief Says Plan in Kosovo Faces Risks

By WARREN HOGE

Published: July 6, 2007

UNITED NATIONS, July 5 — Progress in stabilizing Kosovo will be reversed unless there is swift action on a United Nations plan for its independence from Serbia, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the Security Council made public on Thursday.

The Council is to take up the subject on Monday, and efforts have resumed to overcome objections from Russia, which supports Serbia’s insistence that Kosovo, a breakaway province, must remain a part of it.

The Council is considering a resolution calling for a European Union-managed independence for Kosovo, a plan that has been revised three times to try to meet Russian demands. Under the latest redrafting, the plan would go into effect 120 days after passage of the measure.

But Vitaly I. Churkin, the Russian ambassador here, said last month that any plan that resulted in independence for Kosovo was unacceptable. Mr. Churkin has strongly hinted that if the resolution is put to a vote, Russia will veto it.

Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations since a NATO bombing campaign drove out Serbian forces, which had been conducting a brutal crackdown on the overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian population.

The plan was drawn up by Martti Ahtisaari of Finland, the United Nations mediator, who presented it to the Council in March saying that 13 months of direct negotiations between the sides had reached an impasse.

Britain, France and the United States, sponsors of the resolution, have warned that ethnic Albanians, who make up 90 percent of the population of Kosovo, are growing restive and may declare unilateral independence if the United Nations does not act.

Ambassadors postponed further consideration of the resolution last month in the hope that the meeting on Monday in Kennebunkport, Me., between President Bush and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, would produce movement on Kosovo. Those talks focused instead almost entirely on missile-defense systems.

In his report, Secretary General Ban said there had been “significant strides in the establishment and consolidation of democratic and provisional institutions of self-government” in Kosovo.

But he complained that Kosovo Serbian political leaders were conducting “a near-total boycott” of these institutions and were being encouraged in their obstructionism by the government in Belgrade.

“While Kosovo’s overall progress is encouraging,” he said, “if its future status remains undefined, there is a real risk that the progress achieved by the United Nations and the provisional institutions in Kosovo can begin to unravel.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/world/eu.../06nations.html

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Kosovo progress could "unravel," warns U.N.'s Ban

Reuters

Thursday, July 5, 2007; 6:12 PM

PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - The progress made in Kosovo since a 1998-99 war risks unraveling without a decision on the Albanian majority's demand for independence from Serbia, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a report.

Russia has blocked the adoption of a Western-backed U.N. resolution that would effectively set Kosovo on the path to independence eight years after NATO wrested control of the province from Serbia.

Kosovo's leaders have threatened to declare independence unilaterally, a step that could shatter the unity of the European Union on the major remaining post-war question in the Balkans and send shockwaves across the region.

"If its future status remains undefined there is a real risk that the progress achieved by the United Nations and the Provisional Institutions in Kosovo can begin to unravel," Ban says in a report due to be presented at the U.N. Security Council on Monday.

"The determination of Kosovo's future status should therefore remain a priority for the Security Council and for the international community as a whole," he added in the report made public by the world body.

Kosovo's 2 million Albanians -- 90 percent of the population -- are growing increasingly impatient for independence, having been promised a decision by the West by mid-year.

NATO powers with 16,000 soldiers in the territory fear unrest, but Russia has threatened to veto any effort to endorse its secession at the United Nations.

NEW DRAFT?

In New York, diplomats from several countries said Western capitals were discussing a possible new draft resolution that would appeal more to Moscow. "We are looking at ways of trying to bring Russia into the process," one said.

Russia's main objection to the existing draft is that despite an offer of 120 more days of negotiations between Kosovo Albanians and Serbia, it still effectively makes independence for the province automatic if those talks fail.

Diplomats said ideas included extending the talks period up to 150 days and promising a review thereafter of where the parties stood. But they said Western countries remained committed to eventual independence for Kosovo.

Kosovo has been run by the United Nations since 1999, when NATO bombed to drive out Serb forces and halt the slaughter and expulsion of Albanian civilians in a two-year war with separatist guerrillas.

Kosovo's ethnic Albanian prime minister, Agim Ceku, told Reuters on Tuesday his government would be "forced to move" without progress on the issue at the United Nations.

Ban said Albanian expectations of winning independence "in the near future" remained high.

His regular report, covering the past four months in Kosovo, paints a bleak picture of poverty and continued ethnic division between Albanians and the 100,000 remaining Serbs.

"The process of full reconciliation and integration of Kosovo's communities will be a long-term one, and remains an uphill challenge," Ban wrote.

(Additional reporting by Patrick Worsnip at the United Nations)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7070501617.html

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надо же как двойные стандарты работают..

как вопрос Косово - так независимость, а как Карабах - так переговоры и решайте сами и лучше если вернете освобожденное

и это принимая во внимания то, что Косово - колыбель сербского народа, а Карабах - исконно армянский регион...

блин..

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The 'What ifs?' in Kosovo

06/07/2007

There is considerable concern that anymore delays in the adoption of the Ahtisaari proposal for the monitored independence of Kosovo will provoke a unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo’s leaders.

Analysis by Robert C Austin and Igor Jovanovic for Southeast European Times -- 06/07/07

In the past week, the EU has made increasing calls not to further delay the decision on the Kosovo status issue. On Wednesday (July 4th), EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn cautioned that Europe would pay the price of any failure in the Kosovo status issue -- not Russia or the United States.

His call follows a statement from EU security chief Javier Solana's spokeswoman on Tuesday, saying that Brussels wants a consensus on the Kosovo status to be reached as soon as possible. The bloc favours a quick UN Security Council adoption of a new resolution based on former UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari's blueprint, which calls for supervised independence.

At this point, the credibility of the entire government in Kosovo is in doubt -- in order to hold on to shred of authority, officials in the province are hinting that might have to go it alone. They likely thought everything would be completed by the end of May, and hope surged for the adoption of the Ahtisaari plan. Now they find themselves backtracking.

In the event that there is no Security Council resolution, Kosovo’s leaders have warned that they will move on. It remains to be seen just how much more patience the international community can encourage there.

Last month, US envoy for Kosovo Frank Wisner reiterated Washington's support for Kosovo's independence, and said sovereignty for the province must be the end goal. However, he said, "it is important that independence be achieved as a result of a UN Security Council resolution that will set the stage for recognition, and will open the door to your acceptance into NATO and the EU."

A unilateral declaration is dangerous for a number of reasons. First, it will split the EU and the region, thus undermining years gained in the promotion of regional stability and integration. Balkan states need to be able to say that Europe and the United States want the Ahtisaari plan, and since we want to be part of the Euro-Atlantic clubs, what choice do we have? In essence, a single Security Council-EU/US voice allows them to shift blame and put everyone in the clear.

In the absence of unanimity from the Security Council, the EU and the US, the question of Serbia plays a bigger role. While Albania would be among the first to set-up shop in Pristina, the rest of the region would have to weigh things more carefully. For example, Montenegro, which requires good relations with Serbia, would not be among the first to recognize Kosovo. Macedonia has less to lose and cannot afford to alienate its Albanian minority. Bulgaria and Romania would, like Montenegro, be better off at the end of the line of recognition rather than the front of it. Bosnia would be in no position to offer recognition given the destabilizing effect it would have on its weak federation." Croatia and Slovenia could afford to sit on the fence on the whole issue.

While Great Britain has been steadfast in its support of the Ahtisaari plan, the proposal for more negotiations between Albanians and Serbs by French President Nicolas Sarkozy was not well-received in Kosovo.

Belgrade will continue to put off a final solution for Kosovo, relying on Russian help, in an attempt to convince as many countries as it can than an independent Kosovo would be a dangerous international precedent. Consequently, Belgrade's diplomatic offensive is largely aimed at the undecided members of the Security Council -- Slovakia, South Africa and Indonesia -- but also EU members that could have problems with their own separatists as a result of the secession of Kosovo.

Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has said that Belgrade will insist on the continuation of talks with Pristina, while also demanding that these talks not be accompanied by time limits or prearranged outcomes in the event of failure. Belgrade has also called for a new international mediator.

At the same time, Belgrade will strive to consolidate its position in Kosovo, especially in the province's north, which has little in the way of ties with Pristina. The main problem, however, is that only 40,000 of the 130,000 Serbs left in Kosovo live in the north, with the remainder residing in enclaves surrounded by Albanian-populated areas.

Minister for Kosovo and Metohija Slobodan Samardzic has said that Serbia intends to invest in Kosovo and do everything it can to ensure as great a presence for its institutions in the province as possible.

The external factors aside, a unilateral declaration will not do Kosovo much good. While UNMIK could stay, a new EU mission could not start. The UN will not find itself any more welcome, and there will be divisions within the EU. Most importantly, the Balkans will again face instability.

This content was commissioned for SETimes.com

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtm...7/06/feature-02

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EU meets with Serbian president to find compromise on Kosovo

The Associated PressPublished: July 6, 2007

BRUSSELS, Belgium: European Union leaders held talks Friday with Serbia's President Boris Tadic in an effort to find a compromise to the dispute over the breakaway province of Kosovo.

The U.S. and EU are debating whether to call for a vote in the U.N. Security Council on a Kosovo independence resolution that Russia has rejected as unacceptable — or to engage in further negotiations to try to win Moscow's support.

Speaking after a meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Tadic said Kosovo's independence would set "a dangerous international precedent" by serving as a model for other separatist regions in the world.

"Serbia is defending its territorial integrity and sovereignty ... but do not underestimate Serbia's capacity to achieve a compromise on this issue," Tadic said.

Officials in Brussels say they are caught between Washington's insistence that Kosovo be granted independence as soon as possible and Moscow's implied threat to veto any resolution that would go against Serbia's wishes.

Barroso warned that the status quo in Kosovo was no longer sustainable, adding that "the future of Serbia is not with Russia or the United States but with the European Union, to be blunt."

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is due in Brussels on Tuesday for talks on the issue. This will be followed by a visit Wednesday by Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu and Prime Minister Agim Ceku.

"This is the most important issue the EU faces, it is our No. 1 foreign policy priority because of its implications for stability" in Europe, said Cristina Gallach, spokeswoman for the union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana.

Meanwhile, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said the stability of the Balkans would be "greatly enhanced" by a decision on Kosovo's status.

"We should prevent unnecessary delays in trying to find a solution," de Hoop Scheffer told southeastern European leaders gathered Friday in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

He said the plan for Kosovo's internationally-supervised independence, drafted earlier this year by U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari, provides a "fair, firm and comprehensive basis" for a Security Council decision.

While Kosovo technically remains a part of Serbia, it has been under U.N. administration since a 78-day NATO-led air war that halted a Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in 1999.

Ahtisaari recommended that Kosovo be granted internationally supervised independence — a proposal strongly supported by its ethnic Albanians, who comprise 90 percent of the 2 million population, but vehemently rejected by its Serb minority, Serbia and Russia.

Kosovo has become one of the main irritants in the increasingly tense relations between Washington and Moscow. The issue was discussed during this week's brief summit between George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, but the two presidents gave no indication differences had narrowed.

The latest Security Council draft resolution would give Kosovo's majority ethnic Albanians and minority Serbs four months to reach agreement on its future status. If there is no agreement, the resolution's provisions — initially granting Kosovo independence under international supervision and eventually full independence — would take effect.

EU officials have said they may offer to host another round of "proximity talks" between Serbs and Albanians in Brussels starting September. Another possibility would be to replicate the 1995 talks at a U.S. air force base in Dayton, Ohio, which ended the war in Bosnia, by bringing together all international players at a location in Europe, officials said.

Serbia has indicated it would be willing to return to talks on condition that they are "open and fair," meaning it would not accept Kosovo's independence in case the negotiations fail.

But Albanian politicians have warned about renewed unrest in the province if independence is put off indefinitely, and some have argued they should go ahead and declare independence unilaterally.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/06/...N-EU-Kosovo.php

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U.S. to Serbia: Choose Europe over Kosovo

7 July 2007 | 16:26 | Source: AFP

DUBROVNIK -- Daniel Fried has called on Serbia Saturday to give up on Kosovo and choose a future within the EU instead.

"The question for Serbia is not whether it tries to keep a hold on Kosovo because Slobodan Milošević lost it, rather whether it wants to embrace Europe " U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Daniel Fried said in an interview with AFP.

"The answer from us is: you are welcome, we want you," he said.

Fried spoke on the margins of a summit of Southeast European countries held in the Croatian resort of Dubrovnik named The Croatia Summit 2007: Europe’s New South set to focus on the immediate issues of Southeast Europe and emphasize the region’s status within the Euro-Atlantic framework and NATO.

He said that the summit's message was that the Balkans countries could, like central European states, be successful in their Euro-Atlantic integration if they manage to overcome the obstacle posed by the problem of Kosovo's future status.

"The irony is that ... the only way for all Serbs to live in one political entity was [the former} Yugoslavia, and then Serbian nationalists destroyed it during the 1990s wars," Fried said.

"The second way for all Serbs to live in one political community is for everyone to join the EU and the only way for that to happen is the Kosovo status to be resolved."

"We are still working with the Security Council; we haven't given up this process. It is in all ways preferable to do it with the Security Council," Fried stressed.

Asked whether Kosovo Albanians would be patient, Fried replied: "Kosovo Albanians heard U.S. President Bush. He was very clear. Independence for Kosovo is going to be the outcome."

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-artic...92&nav_id=42296

интересны коменты читалей сербской газеты.

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а вот и ответ сербов

“Serbia refuses to choose between Kosovo and EU”

8 July 2007 | 10:10 | Source: Beta

BELGRADE -- Only with Kosovo within its borders could Serbia join the EU, Slobodan Samardžić has said.

Commenting on U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Daniel Fried’s recent statement that Serbia should give up on Kosovo and choose a future within the EU instead, Minister for Kosovo Slobodan Samardžić said Saturday that that choice was “false to say the least.”

“We categorically refuse the American invitation that Serbia should accept a new Albanian state crated on its territory,” he told Beta news agency.

Samardžić called on the United States to strictly respect internationally recognized borders and Serbia’s territorial integrity.

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-artic...90&nav_id=42299

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Serbia's FM warns Montenegro, other neighbors against recognizing Kosovo

The Associated PressPublished: July 6, 2007

PODGORICA, Montenegro: Serbia's foreign minister on Friday cautioned Montenegro and other neighboring states against recognizing Kosovo's independence, warning it could re-ignite tensions in the Balkans.

Vuk Jeremic said any unilateral recognition of Kosovo's independence by Serbia's neighbors "would cause long term instability in the region."

"I call upon all regional states to show restraint on the Kosovo" recognition, Jeremic said during the first visit to Montenegro by a Serbian foreign minister since the small republic split from Serbia last year. "Let's not make any steps that would later be hard to reverse."

Kosovo, still officially a province of Serbia, has been administered by the United Nations since 1999 following NATO's air war that halted a Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists. The province's ethnic Albanian majority demands independence, but the minority Serbs and Belgrade want Serbia to retain some control.

"Kosovo's independence is absolutely unacceptable for Serbia in any form," Jeremic said.

Some Western states, including the United States, have indicated they may recognize Kosovo's statehood even without a U.N. Security Council approval. Russia and Serbia continue to oppose independence for the province, and Moscow has hinted it may veto a U.N. resolution giving Kosovo internationally supervised statehood.

Montenegro's Foreign Minister Milan Rocen said his country, Serbia's last ally in the Balkans before it declared independence in May last year, "will stay on the sidelines" as far as Kosovo's recognition is concerned.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/06/...rbia-Kosovo.php

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надо же как двойные стандарты работают..

как вопрос Косово - так независимость, а как Карабах - так переговоры и решайте сами и лучше если вернете освобожденное

и это принимая во внимания то, что Косово - колыбель сербского народа, а Карабах - исконно армянский регион...

блин..

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Косово настолько же истинно сербская территория,насколько Карабах истинно азербайджанский.Албанцы жили на этой территории задолго до прихода туда славян.

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Косово настолько же истинно сербская территория,насколько Карабах истинно азербайджанский.Албанцы жили на этой территории задолго до прихода туда славян.

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Kosovo Albanians seek Balkan border redrawing conference

July 7, 2007 -- An unnamed source from the Kosovo Albanian regime in Pristina was quoted by a separatist newspaper Koha Ditore that if the the Ahtisaari plan is trashed in the new round of talks on the status of Kosovo the regime will demand a European conference that will redraw borders in the Balkans.

"If Ahtisaari’s plan failed, or if any change of the document is called for, we will demand an international conference for redefining state borders in the Balkans," Koha quoted an official from the regime that spoke on the condition of anonymity.

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried are due to arrive in Pristina as well as EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana.

Solana is likely to officially present the Kosovo Albanian regime with the outline for new round of talks with Belgrade that would likely take place in Brussels.

serbianna (July 7, 2007)

http://www.serbianna.com/news/2007/01958.shtml