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Op-Ed ContributorCrossfire War: Kosovo PM Expects State of Independence by June 2006By Willard PayneCrossfire War - TEHRAN WATCH -Southeast Europe Theatre: Pristina/- (Tehran) -/Belgrade; End of a Grand Illusion - Kosovo PM Expects State of Independence by June 2006 - War of the European Enlargement
Night Watch: PRISTINA - A Grand Illusion is about to end and in this case with more fighting than the conflict that ended the New World Order. Kosovo then Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi stated, earlier this year, that he expects Kosovo to become independent by June 2006. "For us it is important that in June 2006 we should make Kosovo a state. I am convinced we should do that." I don't think his expectations have changed any since the beginning of the year and I suspect every armed Albanian group also expects the same even without the EU/UN/NATO's approval. [EurActiv]Since then he seems to have been replaced by Agim Ceku, who likes to be photographed in uniform. Today Prime Minister Ceku told a Sofia television station that a UN Security Council resolution will declare Kosovo independent by the end of the year but Ceku may just be playing the diplomat. Ceku may know that fighting will resume in May to take advantage of the international arms support they have been receiving from Islamic governments.The position of Serbia President Boris Tadic is just as entrenched. He has always refused to accept or sign what he called an "imposed position" as if he anticipates the negotiations in Vienna going against Belgrade.In the meantime waiting in the wings is Tehran, who has armed Albanian units and in January signed a security agreement with Serbia. Iran knows that it will be mostly NATO and the EU caught in the crossfire of what I am calling the War of the European Enlargement. Perhaps the most ridiculous, most unbelievable decision I have ever witnessed was the agreement to divide Yugoslavia. It was a classic example of the evil with a clown face mentality. I actually thought Europe had gotten tired of map making. Societies obviously retain their character. And Washington allowed itself to be Yanked into it.These endless rounds of negotations and referendums was intended to lead to EU enlargment, incorporating the states that emerged out of the divided Yugoslavia into the European Community. The EU will have to incorporate the war instead and Iran's obvious involvement as Tehran continues to prepare its Avenue of Invasion. The Council of Guardians in Tehran are privately thanking the West for creating this other front.When the war finally ends whatever flags are left flying will withdraw into further darkness-militarism. The leading lights that established progressive European institutions, that broke down a lot of barriers after World War II, were extinguished quite some time ago. What they represented and accomplished died with them.
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April 30, 2006
Thumbs-up for Independence
Latest news:http://news.google.be/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Kosovo
Kosovo's press get thumbs-up from OSCE commissionhttp://www.ijnet.org/Director.aspx?P=Article&ID=304911&LID=1
No troop cut before Kosovo status resolution-NATO
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28676346.htm.................
UN to endorse Kosovo independence
http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/agencija/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrArticle=20697&NrIssue=452&NrSection=20............
http://www.dtt-net.com/en/index.php?page=view-article&article=1466
28/04/2006
Russia against Kosovo's independence(Sofia, DTT-NET.COM) - Russian government has voiced its opposal to Kosovo independence arguing that such a settlement is dangerous for the stability in Western Balkans region."We don't agree with those who try to convince us that there is no alternative to Kosovo independence. That's a dangerous path that could lead toward dangerous consequences for the region and create a precedent for other conflict situations," AFP quoted Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov saying to the reporters on Friday after NATO-Russia meeting in Bulgarian capital, Sofia.Lavrov's statement creates a new momentum on the position of major international powers on the future of UN administrated territory.Russia together with US, Germany, France, Italy and UK is member of Contact Group for Kosovo which have said in common statements that the status of Kosovo "should be acceptable to the people".Ethnic Albanians who represent around 90 percent of Kosovo population insist on independence but Serbia and Serbian minority in Kosovo are against.UK and US officials have said that independence is the likely solution for Kosovo.Western diplomats have said earlier that Moscow will not use its veto against Kosovo independence at UN Security Council, but Friday's statement of Russian foreign minister seem to create a new obstacle to the push of London and Washington to make Kosovo independent and split from Serbia and Montenegro state union......................
Kosovo's press get thumbs-up from OSCE commissionhttp://www.ijnet.org/Director.aspx?P=Article&ID=304911&LID=1
No troop cut before Kosovo status resolution-NATO
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28676346.htm.................
UN to endorse Kosovo independence
http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/agencija/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrArticle=20697&NrIssue=452&NrSection=20............
http://www.dtt-net.com/en/index.php?page=view-article&article=1466
28/04/2006
Russia against Kosovo's independence(Sofia, DTT-NET.COM) - Russian government has voiced its opposal to Kosovo independence arguing that such a settlement is dangerous for the stability in Western Balkans region."We don't agree with those who try to convince us that there is no alternative to Kosovo independence. That's a dangerous path that could lead toward dangerous consequences for the region and create a precedent for other conflict situations," AFP quoted Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov saying to the reporters on Friday after NATO-Russia meeting in Bulgarian capital, Sofia.Lavrov's statement creates a new momentum on the position of major international powers on the future of UN administrated territory.Russia together with US, Germany, France, Italy and UK is member of Contact Group for Kosovo which have said in common statements that the status of Kosovo "should be acceptable to the people".Ethnic Albanians who represent around 90 percent of Kosovo population insist on independence but Serbia and Serbian minority in Kosovo are against.UK and US officials have said that independence is the likely solution for Kosovo.Western diplomats have said earlier that Moscow will not use its veto against Kosovo independence at UN Security Council, but Friday's statement of Russian foreign minister seem to create a new obstacle to the push of London and Washington to make Kosovo independent and split from Serbia and Montenegro state union......................
This is a universe of pain
http://www.kosovo.net/news/archive/2006/April_28/2.html
KiM Info Newsletter 28-04-06
Serbian, foreign writers and artists visit Metohija and Visoki Decani MonasteryBishop Teodosije sincerely thanked the participants in the "Pilgrimage and Brotherly Love" campaign who came to encourage the faithful of Metohija during these paschal holidays. He especially thanked Austrian writer and dramatist Peter Handke for the solidarity he has shown for years toward the suffering Serbian people from Krajina and Bosnia to Kosovo and Metohija. The visit to Orahovac, Velika Hoca, Zociste, Visoki Decani Monastery and the Pec Patriarchate was organized on the occasion of the paschal holidays by the Coordinating Center for Kosovo and Metohija and the Association of Writers of Kosovo and MetohijaKIM Info ServiceApril 27, 2006On Tuesday, April 25, a group of Serbian and foreign writers and artists visited Visoki Decani Monastery together with several displaced Serbs from the Orahovac region. They have been visiting Metohija for the past two days as part of a campaign called "Pilgrimage and Brotherly Love".Prior to stopping at Visoki Decani Monastery participants in this noble campaign visited the village of Retimlje near Orahovac where a number of Serbs were kidnapped and killed during the course of 1998. Together with members of the Kostic family, which lost 14 of its members during the war, the writers and artists lit candles at the Orthodox cemetery now completely overgrown with weeds. On that occasion the group of writers was exposed to verbal attacks by local Albanians. The members of the Kostic family visited their native villages of Opterusa and Retimlje for the first time in almost eight years. Protosingel Petar, the chief priest of Zociste Monastery, served a memorial service at the cemetery in Retimlje for all Orthodox Serbs buried there and those whose bodies have not yet been found.The visit to Orahovac, Velika Hoca, Zociste, Visoki Decani Monastery and the Pec Patriarchate was organized on the occasion of the paschal holidays by the Coordinating Center for Kosovo and Metohija and the Association of Writers of Kosovo and Metohija. In Visoki Decani Monastery the poets read poems dedicated to the Serbian holy shrines in Kosovo and Metohija and Svetlana Stevic sang an old song originating in the Metohija region. The guests were especially delighted by the brothers Marko (12) and Nikola Maksimovic (13), guests of the monastery from Kraljevo, who performed several traditional Serbian melodies on the flute together with Decani monk Jovan.Bishop Teodosije sincerely thanked the participants in the "Pilgrimage and Brotherly Love" campaign who came to encourage the faithful of Metohija during these paschal holidays. He especially thanked Austrian writer and dramatist Peter Handke for the solidarity he has shown for years toward the suffering Serbian people from Krajina and Bosnia to Kosovo and Metohija.Upon entering the town of Decani as well as upon departing from it on their way to Pec, the bus transporting the writers was showered by stones by the local Albanians, whose whistled in disapproval when the bus carrying Serbs passed. According to poet Ranko Djinovic there was some damage to the vehicle but no one was injured. Despite the unpleasant experience, the writers and artists said that they would always respond to words of derision and rocks with songs and forgiveness, recalling the words of the Gospels: "Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do."The delegation of foreign writers also included Kurt K�pruner, Thomas Diechmann and several of their colleagues from Austria, Germany and Russia. The delegation completed its visit to Metohija with a tour of the Pec Patriarchate...................http://www.blic.co.yu/danas/broj/E-Index.htm#9Blic (Serbia and Montenegro)April 28, 2006Austrian writer Peter Handke in KosovoThis is a universe of painStanding on the side of justice, as he said, and always with the victims, Austrian writer Peter Handke visited Kosovo several days ago.Standing at burnt homes of the Nikolices, Kostices, Bozanices and Bandices in the villages of Retimlje and Opterusa near Orahovac, Handke said: 'These are universes of pain. I do not have the right to speak. I shall keep silent, I have to keep silent. Thank you for making it possible for me to see this horror personally. This is not the 21st century'.Together with a group of domestic and foreign writers, Handke visited the most jeopardized locations in Kosovo under patronage of the Coordination Center.'He was speechless but he promised to tell in his way the horror that Kosovo Serbs are exposed to', organizer of the visit Ranko Djinovic said.'Feeling terrible that a mother cannot find her son's grave in a destroyed cemetery in Retimlje, Hendke defended a Serb woman who at that moment was verbally attacked by Albanians. He managed to get from Austrian KFOR commander a helicopter escort in continuation of the visit but was astonished to witness stoning of the convoy downtown Decani in spite of escort and a minute later while approaching the Monastery of Visoki Decani', Djinovic said.Handke left yesterday but promised to return soon with far larger number of writers having world reputation in spite of the threats he received 'in order to awake the world that has fallen asleep'.
KiM Info Newsletter 28-04-06
Serbian, foreign writers and artists visit Metohija and Visoki Decani MonasteryBishop Teodosije sincerely thanked the participants in the "Pilgrimage and Brotherly Love" campaign who came to encourage the faithful of Metohija during these paschal holidays. He especially thanked Austrian writer and dramatist Peter Handke for the solidarity he has shown for years toward the suffering Serbian people from Krajina and Bosnia to Kosovo and Metohija. The visit to Orahovac, Velika Hoca, Zociste, Visoki Decani Monastery and the Pec Patriarchate was organized on the occasion of the paschal holidays by the Coordinating Center for Kosovo and Metohija and the Association of Writers of Kosovo and MetohijaKIM Info ServiceApril 27, 2006On Tuesday, April 25, a group of Serbian and foreign writers and artists visited Visoki Decani Monastery together with several displaced Serbs from the Orahovac region. They have been visiting Metohija for the past two days as part of a campaign called "Pilgrimage and Brotherly Love".Prior to stopping at Visoki Decani Monastery participants in this noble campaign visited the village of Retimlje near Orahovac where a number of Serbs were kidnapped and killed during the course of 1998. Together with members of the Kostic family, which lost 14 of its members during the war, the writers and artists lit candles at the Orthodox cemetery now completely overgrown with weeds. On that occasion the group of writers was exposed to verbal attacks by local Albanians. The members of the Kostic family visited their native villages of Opterusa and Retimlje for the first time in almost eight years. Protosingel Petar, the chief priest of Zociste Monastery, served a memorial service at the cemetery in Retimlje for all Orthodox Serbs buried there and those whose bodies have not yet been found.The visit to Orahovac, Velika Hoca, Zociste, Visoki Decani Monastery and the Pec Patriarchate was organized on the occasion of the paschal holidays by the Coordinating Center for Kosovo and Metohija and the Association of Writers of Kosovo and Metohija. In Visoki Decani Monastery the poets read poems dedicated to the Serbian holy shrines in Kosovo and Metohija and Svetlana Stevic sang an old song originating in the Metohija region. The guests were especially delighted by the brothers Marko (12) and Nikola Maksimovic (13), guests of the monastery from Kraljevo, who performed several traditional Serbian melodies on the flute together with Decani monk Jovan.Bishop Teodosije sincerely thanked the participants in the "Pilgrimage and Brotherly Love" campaign who came to encourage the faithful of Metohija during these paschal holidays. He especially thanked Austrian writer and dramatist Peter Handke for the solidarity he has shown for years toward the suffering Serbian people from Krajina and Bosnia to Kosovo and Metohija.Upon entering the town of Decani as well as upon departing from it on their way to Pec, the bus transporting the writers was showered by stones by the local Albanians, whose whistled in disapproval when the bus carrying Serbs passed. According to poet Ranko Djinovic there was some damage to the vehicle but no one was injured. Despite the unpleasant experience, the writers and artists said that they would always respond to words of derision and rocks with songs and forgiveness, recalling the words of the Gospels: "Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do."The delegation of foreign writers also included Kurt K�pruner, Thomas Diechmann and several of their colleagues from Austria, Germany and Russia. The delegation completed its visit to Metohija with a tour of the Pec Patriarchate...................http://www.blic.co.yu/danas/broj/E-Index.htm#9Blic (Serbia and Montenegro)April 28, 2006Austrian writer Peter Handke in KosovoThis is a universe of painStanding on the side of justice, as he said, and always with the victims, Austrian writer Peter Handke visited Kosovo several days ago.Standing at burnt homes of the Nikolices, Kostices, Bozanices and Bandices in the villages of Retimlje and Opterusa near Orahovac, Handke said: 'These are universes of pain. I do not have the right to speak. I shall keep silent, I have to keep silent. Thank you for making it possible for me to see this horror personally. This is not the 21st century'.Together with a group of domestic and foreign writers, Handke visited the most jeopardized locations in Kosovo under patronage of the Coordination Center.'He was speechless but he promised to tell in his way the horror that Kosovo Serbs are exposed to', organizer of the visit Ranko Djinovic said.'Feeling terrible that a mother cannot find her son's grave in a destroyed cemetery in Retimlje, Hendke defended a Serb woman who at that moment was verbally attacked by Albanians. He managed to get from Austrian KFOR commander a helicopter escort in continuation of the visit but was astonished to witness stoning of the convoy downtown Decani in spite of escort and a minute later while approaching the Monastery of Visoki Decani', Djinovic said.Handke left yesterday but promised to return soon with far larger number of writers having world reputation in spite of the threats he received 'in order to awake the world that has fallen asleep'.
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