Dec 15, 2007
Kosovan Independence—Real or Imaginary?
"European leaders yesterday agreed to send up to 1,800 police, judges, and administrators to Kosovo in its biggest foreign policy gamble, aimed at nurturing the breakaway Balkan province towards full statehood."
"Balkan experts at the US state department are drafting Kosovo's declaration of independence, to be proclaimed by the ethnic Albanian leaders of Kosovo in early February after Serbia elects a new president, the sources said."
I seem to remember the Declaration of Independence was written by American patriots on their own in 1776. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
"Many EU states want to entice Serbia into a deal by signing an agreement on preliminary EU membership talks with Belgrade on January 28. That would fall between two rounds of presidential elections in Serbia and would be designed to boost the chances of the pro-western president, Boris Tadic, defeating Tomislav Nikolic, an extreme nationalist."
You can imagine the outcry were Putin to attempt to influence the Serbian elections.
These three paragraphs are taken from a news story in Saturday's Guardian entitled EU summit gambles on huge Kosovo mission.
For some sensible thinking about these issues, I strongly recommend Phil Cunliffe's Kosovo: Plaything of the Great Powers and Diana Johnstone's The Next Kosovo War.
"Balkan experts at the US state department are drafting Kosovo's declaration of independence, to be proclaimed by the ethnic Albanian leaders of Kosovo in early February after Serbia elects a new president, the sources said."
I seem to remember the Declaration of Independence was written by American patriots on their own in 1776. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
"Many EU states want to entice Serbia into a deal by signing an agreement on preliminary EU membership talks with Belgrade on January 28. That would fall between two rounds of presidential elections in Serbia and would be designed to boost the chances of the pro-western president, Boris Tadic, defeating Tomislav Nikolic, an extreme nationalist."
You can imagine the outcry were Putin to attempt to influence the Serbian elections.
These three paragraphs are taken from a news story in Saturday's Guardian entitled EU summit gambles on huge Kosovo mission.
For some sensible thinking about these issues, I strongly recommend Phil Cunliffe's Kosovo: Plaything of the Great Powers and Diana Johnstone's The Next Kosovo War.