Kosovo To Declare Independence Within Days

[Ashot]

Kosovo to declare independence within days: Deputy PM

The increasing visibility of NATO troops in Kosovo has provoked speculation that the Serbian province could declare independence imminently. Kosovo's Deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuci says the preparations are almost completed.

 

Speaking exclusively to Russia Today, Hajredin Kuci said:

 

“Kosovo is ready. And we have already finished everything regarding the final status of Kosovo. We have full co-ordination with main states, starting from Washington and the EU member states and including the states around us.”

 

The Deputy Prime Minister said Kosovo is in the final days of “some technical and administrative procedures for the full co-ordination”.

 

“I hope that next days, I am not sure when exactly, but we will proclaim the independent state of Kosovo,” Kuci concluded.

 

Russia Today

[elle]

It's interesting how the kosovo independence will backfire on every other country that has the separatist issues withint its borders! Shall see what happens, especially in Georgia and Karabakh.

 

[Ashot]

Georgia and Azerbadrjan, not Artsakh...

 

I have noticed that Arpa has tried to teach everyone not to use the word "KHARABAKH" but no one is learning

 

PLEASE USE ARTSAX INSTEAD OF THE KARABAKH - PLEASE!!!

[Eurocentric]

It's a tough issue for us. On one hand we should support Serbia's claim to their historical homeland. Kosovo for them is like the Ararat valley for us. On the other hand this sets a great precedent for Artsakh of course.

 

As for Artsakh, the government of Artsakh officialy named the country using the Turko-Persian name instead of the historical name. Tough to blame people for using that term when the people of Artsakh themselves aren't using it.

[MosJan]

i'm going to program this forum to convert K-ARABAKH to Artsax automatically

 

 

 

Sorry Garo jan

[elle]

It's a tough issue for us. On one hand we should support Serbia's claim to their historical homeland. Kosovo for them is like the Ararat valley for us. On the other hand this sets a great precedent for Artsakh of course.

 

I know it is. I feel the same way. I'm a big supporter of the Serbs. For all they went through during the US led NATO bombings of Belgrade and all the lies spread about them in US media about their "war crimes" and for the fact that the Hague tried Milosevic for fake war crimes. All the lies spread just to justify the US boming of Belgrade in the US media. It's so pathetic.

This is why I don't have just one opinion about the independence of Kosovo because as much as the independence can benefit the Artsax issue, I feel for the Serbs. I think we're very much like the Serbs, not just politically.

 

 

 

[gamavor]

Kosovo independance doesn't make any sense. Never ever in human history there was a nation called "Kosovo". Secondly, what is the purpose of recognizing a seperatist entity if the whole issue is about having democracy in Kosovo and integration of her population in Europe? What would happen when Serbia becomes part of EU? Are Kosovarians capable of respecting the rights of the Serb minoirty?

 

I don't think Kosovo has any real bearing (or symilarity) with Artsakh. Artsakh is simply independant state and it doesn't matter if someone in Brussels or Washington sees things in a different way.

[Arpa]

i'm going to program this forum to convert K-ARABAKH to Artsax automatically

 

 

 

Sorry Garo jan

Voch takavim MosJan

Goutse pokhenq K**** i yev tesnenq te mezme or abushner@, nakhagahen minjev avelatsou, lratouneren minjev Artsakhian depanatoun@ takavin gorts atsen ayd anitsyal furkakan asserarakan anoun@, yev heto, kam miazhamak pokhenq ...

[Arpa]

Kosovo rhymes with that Arabic phrase "kus ummo".

When did religion alone, given the fact that they speak Serbian, become a precondition for nationhood? How about all those Christians in Syria and Palestine, Jews and Moslems in the US? Will the british grant nationhood to all thos Pakis, or the Germans to all those furks?

Edited February 8, 2008 by Arpa

[MosJan]

Voch takavim MosJan

Goutse pokhenq K**** i yev tesnenq te mezme or abushner@, nakhagahen minjev avelatsou, lratouneren minjev Artsakhian depanatoun@ takavin gorts atsen ayd anitsyal furkakan asserarakan anoun@, yev heto, kam miazhamak pokhenq ...

 

Arpa Hoq mi ani amen inch ir jamanakin k@poxvi yev k@moratsvi - yerevi te yes kam du iyd or@ chenq tesni sakayn amen inch ir jamanakin k@poxvi

 

 

hima inchverabervum e mer forumi mej Artsax kam k-arabagh grelun - hamadziyn em petq e ogtagortsel jisht HAykakan Anvanum @ mer Azatagrvats Artsaxi - sakayn iysor yerb iystegh grum es mi ban - miyayn grelu hamar che - tsankanum es or otar azgern el kardan yev sovoren - yete Karabaghi poxanren menq Artsax grenq yev otar@ internetum search e anum KArabagh qo grats @ yerbeq chen gtnelu

[Arpa]

Arpa Hoq mi ani amen inch ir jamanakin k@poxvi yev k@moratsvi - yerevi te yes kam du iyd or@ chenq tesni sakayn amen inch ir jamanakin k@poxvi

 

 

hima inchverabervum e mer forumi mej Artsax kam k-arabagh grelun - hamadziyn em petq e ogtagortsel jisht HAykakan Anvanum @ mer Azatagrvats Artsaxi - sakayn iysor yerb iystegh grum es mi ban - miyayn grelu hamar che - tsankanum es or otar azgern el kardan yev sovoren - yete Karabaghi poxanren menq Artsax grenq yev otar@ internetum search e anum KArabagh qo grats @ yerbeq chen gtnelu

Jisht ayd patjarav er or es gretsi verevin@, te yete kareli e "K****" anel yev nra koghqin mttsnel "Artsakh/ArzaX" yevln, yev zhamank tal mijazkayin marminneroun sovorel. Gone menq Hayer@s mer mijev chi gorts atsenq ayd hayhoyali anun@. HAY-Hoyali?

Piti chi antesel mer droshm@ erb tesnenq te mer tghtakitsne@ al chen gorts atsum P*** bar@, yev ibr ptough im yev qo janqin nouynisk Yerevanoum artasanoum en

KARMIR KAPUYTTSIRANI :ap:

Edited February 8, 2008 by Arpa

[Ashot]

yes karoghem aracharkel aveli hetaqrqir ban - yete hnaravore forumin avelatsnel extention - yete grenq ays dzevov [karabagh|Artsax] ts@ragir@ karta yerku anunnel bayts tsuyts ta miain Artsax anun@... vonts vor wikipedia.org i mech... yete hnaravore aytpisi mi ban anel uremn shat lav klini!!! ayt depqum, karoghenq grel karabagh bayts tsuyts ta Artsax, searchi depqumel vor search anen karabagh, @nk@nen Artsaxi mech!!! Edited February 8, 2008 by Ashot

[Arpa]

yes karoghem aracharkel aveli hetaqrqir ban - yete hnaravore forumin avelatsnel extention - yete grenq ays dzevov [karabagh|Artsax] ts@ragir@ karta yerku anunnel bayts tsuyts ta miain Artsax anun@... vonts vor wikipedia.org i mech... yete hnaravore aytpisi mi ban anel uremn shat lav klini!!! ayt depqum, karoghenq grel karabagh bayts tsuyts ta Artsax, searchi depqumel vor search anen karabagh, @nk@nen Artsaxi mech!!!

Sa yerkar zhamanki harts e, bayts minch ayd yete mer pashtonakan marminner@ dadarin K**** bar@ gorts atsele, yev mer Hanragitaran@ dadri LGHIM = ԼՂԻՄ = Լեռնային Ղարապաղի Ինքնավար Մարզ anvanoumits??? Kam the “Republic of NKR” its? Inchpes piti lini anvanel ARA=Armenian Republic of Artsakh???

 

[MosJan]

ch@giitem

 

minch yereko m@tatsenq tesnenq inch enq anelu

 

 

[Arpa]

Minch menq khosenq a3s niwti masin tes te mer pashtonakan marminner@ inch en asoum- yev tes te ayd K*** bar@ qani angam krknvi.

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A CONFERENCE AT THE NKR PRESIDENT

 

Azat Artsakh Tert, Nagorno K**** Republic

Feb 6 2008

 

The conference, held on February 5th by NKR President Bako Sahakian,

was devoted to today's problems in judicial legal system of the

republic, as well as necessity of carrying out reforms in that sphere.

 

In his speech the head of the country particularly noted, that active

works should be realized for working out the order of reforms of

judicial legal system and in the direction of preparing necessary

legislative package, on the purpose of which a working group had benn

created the other day..He noted also necessity of closer collaboration

between judicial bodies.

 

Bako Sahakian expressed readines to create necessary working conditions

for regular and productive activity of judicial bodies.

 

At the conference suggestions were sounded round preparation of young

cadres and realization of reforms.

 

Judges of NKR Supreme Court and Court of first instance, Minister if

Justice Narine Narimanian and Attorney General Arshavir Gharamian,

as well as head of the NKR President's stuff Marat Moussaelian

participated in the conference.

HG, Ayo, MosJan arden tesa te dou khmbagrel es ayd K** bar@.

Apres!!!

Edited February 8, 2008 by Arpa

[Arpa]

Bayts yerevi etqan al hesht chpiti lini qani mezme shater groum en da K-ov, KH-ov, GH-ov kam hazar ou mek tarber tseverov, nayev chi moranal Hayeren hegoumner@ Ք- Խ- Ղ- Կ- եւլն

Մի խօսքով, եթէ մենք գիտակցաբար եւ եռանդով չի հետեվինք մեր իսկ կանոններին ոչ մին չի կարող շտկել ամբողջ աշխարհը:

Just to test the system Artsax

Yes, it works I typed K***** and see what appeared.

Edited February 9, 2008 by Arpa

[AVO]

Isk karelia nents anel vor Artsax greluts darna Artsax (Artsakh). Heto kamats kamats otarnen el ksorovoren.

 

Edit:

Edited February 9, 2008 by AVO

[elle]

Seems like the independence will be announced on February 17th! Serbia declared just recently that a new war will break out if Kosovo separates from Serbia. Interesting to see what will happen in a week and in the next few months following the independence...if it happens.

[Ashot]

Serbia Denounces Kosovo Independence Bid

 

By SLOBODAN LEKIC – 1 hour ago

 

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia's government on Thursday denounced any unilateral declaration of Kosovo's independence — expected within days — as "invalid and void."

 

Serbia issued the defiant declaration just days before the province is expected to secede, and hours before the U.N. Security Council is to meet in New York to discuss Kosovo.

 

"Such a (move) would represent a flagrant and unilateral act of secession of a part of the territory of the Republic of Serbia, and is therefore invalid and void," the Serbian government said in a statement.

 

The government demanded that the Security Council "immediately annul" any Kosovo declaration of independence, and denounced a European Union plan to dispatch a 1,800-member police and judiciary mission to Kosovo.

 

Serbia wants to keep hold of Kosovo — which it considers the cradle of its medieval statehood and religion — although it has had no control over the province since a 1999 NATO launched a bombing campaign to end a Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanian rebels.

 

The U.S. and most EU nations support statehood for the U.N.-run province, where 90 percent of the population of 2 million is ethnic Albanian.

 

However, Russia, a traditional ally of Serbia, opposes recognizing Kosovo statehood, calling it a dangerous precedent to set for separatists worldwide.

 

With a Kosovo declaration imminent, Serbia already has endorsed a secret "Action Plan" to be implemented when the province declares independence.

 

The plan is believed to include retaliatory steps to keep Serb-populated areas under Belgrade's control — a move that would result in a de facto partitioning of the province.

 

The 100,000 Serbs living in Kosovo will remain "citizens of Serbia and have the full right not to recognize any illegal declarations of unilateral independence" by Kosovo's Albanians, the Serbian resolution said.

 

The plan contains no provisions for military action against Kosovo, now policed by 16,000 NATO troops.

 

In Pristina, Kosovo's capital, a lawmaker said the Serbian resolution would have no bearing on Kosovo's intention to declare independence.

 

"What Serbia does is irrelevant," legislator Vlora Citaku said. "Serbia can only invalidate decisions of its own assembly. Kosovo has its own path, and one that is internationally supported."

 

In April 2007, U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari recommended that Kosovo be granted internationally supervised independence.

 

But the internationally mediated talks that followed failed to yield an agreement between the ethnic Albanian leadership, which pushed for full statehood, and Serbia, which was willing to offer only wide autonomy.

 

Kosovo now is expected to declare independence unilaterally on Sunday or Monday — a move Serbia says would violate the U.N. resolution on Kosovo and encroach on Serbia's territorial integrity.

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Thursday that it would set a dangerous precedent.

 

"I will yet again emphasize that we consider that unilateral support for independence for Kosovo is immoral and illegal," he said in Moscow.

 

Associated Press writer Jovana Gec contributed to this report.

 

[Ashot]

Russia not to recognize Kosovo's independence

www.chinaview.cn 2008-02-14 03:31:17

 

MOSCOW, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Russia will not recognize Kosovo's independence if it is proclaimed, a senior Russian official handling the problem of the Kosovo settlement told reporters here on Wednesday.

 

"According to some reports, Kosovo may proclaim independence onFeb. 17, Sunday ... We shall not recognize Kosovo's independence," Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, deputy director of the 3rd European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

 

Measures must be taken for preventing the unilateral proclamation of Kosovo's independence and the removal of the Kosovo settlement from the legal sphere. Aside from it, it is necessary to prevent a conflict that may break out after the unilateral proclamation of Kosovo's independence, Botsan-Kharchenko said.

 

"An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the problem will be held on the initiative of Serbia in the coming days. We actively supported the initiative. It is reasonable and timely, considering the whipping up of tension around the recognition of Kosovo's independence," he said.

 

"It is necessary to call the attention again to the violation by Pristina of Resolution No. 1244 of the UN Security Council, of the UN Charter and of all the UN norms." he said.

 

Kosovo, a breakaway Serbian province, could unilaterally declare its independence as early as Sunday, and its status is expected to be recognized by Western countries.

Editor: Yan Liang

[Ashot]

Kosovo tries to launch independence softly

Despite Serbia's ire, province may declare independence as soon as Sunday.

from the February 14, 2008 edition

 

Pristina, Kosovo - Albanians here have craved independence for nine long years of loud tearoom debates. Now with a declaration expected as soon as Sunday, Kosovo officials hope independence from Serbia will be so quiet it will scarcely be noticed.

 

The hallmark phrase repeated by Prime Minister Hashim Thaci to local mayors all week is "independence with dignity." This means no bacchanalian outbursts, no in-your-face waving of Albanian flags around Serb enclaves, no mass rallies – nothing to provoke the incidents that officials here think Belgrade would like to see.

 

Popular expectations in the breakaway province are being scaled back by officials – that independence can magically solve all the difficulties of this sensitive Balkan flash point that has been overseen by the United Nations since 1999.

 

"We want to be a peaceful nation joining Europe, and we want that from the start," says Interior Minister Zenun Pajaziti. "A crisis is not in our interest."

 

"You only get a chance to declare independence once, so you need to do it right," says Louis Sell, a former US diplomat with Balkan experience.

 

Kosovo's independence closes a chapter of grief and genocide in the Balkans dating from 1992. Analysts concerned about a "domino effect" of a bloody re-ordering of ethnic borders see Kosovo's peaceful evolution as a test for EU and US resolve in southern Europe. But the province's independence is bitterly opposed by Serbia, which enjoys at least rhetorical backing from Russia.

 

Since 2000, the EU has spent $4 billion here and will send its largest ever (1,800) civil and police mission in days.

 

Serb Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica stated Tuesday, "We shall not allow a fictitious state to exist for a minute on Serbian territory. It has to be legally annulled."

 

The precise manner of Kosovo's declaration remains unclear. Officials hint at 48 hours notice; some say it will be only six – ahead of an EU foreign ministers' meeting next Monday. NATO-KFOR has been increasing its 17,000-strong presence with soldiers having combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kosovo police leaves are cancelled as of this week.

 

"I almost think the idea is to have everyone wake up in the morning to find we declared at 3 a.m.," says Pristina columnist Baton Haxhiu. "Many of us might feel like waving flags and making a big fire. But the international community and Serbs could say we are just primitives, untrustworthy Albanians. So we will be on good behavior. Everyone knows – no big fires."

 

Kosovo is 90 percent Albanian, with several small Serb enclaves. The most sensitive area is the divided city of Mitrovica, a zone that borders Serbia, and home to many Serb radicals. Serbs unofficially control the city north of the Ibar River; few Albanians live there. Last week an association of Serb refugees formed a parliament in Mitrovica. Authorities do not want a repeat of March 2004 when Serb and Albanian communities rioted. Most Albanian homes have a weapon, and informal armies are said to be poised.

 

But the '04 riots, which caught KFOR unprepared, were spontaneous.

 

Western security officials say the long run-up has changed the situation markedly: "I think KFOR has a very high level of vision inside Kosovo today," says a senior Western official. "They are ready to stamp out violence. For KFOR, peace in Kosovo has ramifications for Europe and the world. It is being seen in a larger context than Kosovo alone."

 

Serbs view Kosovo as the spiritual heartland of their identity – the site of epic medieval battles against the Ottoman empire. Kosovo was a cultural crossroads in the Balkans, though as recently as the 1920s, a Bulgarian geographer called it "almost as unknown and inaccessible as a stretch of land in Central Africa."

 

Among Albanians, the third largest ethnic group in the Balkans, Kosovo independence has been anticipated for decades. It has been an emotional refrain – not unlike the Jewish phrase "See you in Jerusalem" – repeated through years of trauma and uncertainty.

 

Under Slobodan Milosevic's regime in Belgrade, Kosovo's status as a special province was removed, and a terrifically repressive administration instituted. The Albanians lived in fear as second-class citizens in one of the most oppressive political arrangements in Europe – picked up randomly, questioned and tortured in a system of jails and police stations. Paramilitary units operated out of the main hotel. The Albanians opted out, creating their own schools, parliament, and infrastructure under president Ibrahim Rugova, who adopted Gandhi's tactics of passive resistance.

 

The creation of a Kosovo Liberation Army followed by NATO intervention drove the Serbs out.

 

"After eight years, Kosovo is getting its place in the sun. This should have happened earlier," says William Walker. His January 1999 eyewitness accounts here as Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ambassador, of a scene of evident mass execution of Albanians in Racak, was a turning point leading to the "humanitarian intervention" that NATO used to enter Kosovo.

 

"Most Kosovars really do understand they have to be good winners," Ambassador Walker adds. "The world doesn't like sore losers or sore or arrogant winners."

 

In Pristina, English language translators are quietly being seconded for unspecified weekend events. Hotels are doubling room rates. On Sunday or Monday, festivities are expected to include Kosovo's own Philharmonia playing Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" as the independence hymn.

 

Under the UN "Ahtisaari" blueprint governing Kosovo's transition, Serbs will receive a level of minority rights that no other group in the Balkans is ensured, diplomats point out. Yet the Serbs remain unplacated.

 

Walker points out that in the Slavonia plains of Croatia during the dissolution of Yugoslavia, many of the remaining Serbs "were unwilling to accept that at some point they were going to be Serbs of Croatian nationality…. If the Serbs in Kosovo can accept the fact that they will be a minority, it will be fine. But that may be a big if."

 

Walker, considered a national hero here, added that Kosovo independence can't be seen as a final goal. "Some Kosovars think that independence means reaching your destiny, that it is an antedote to all problems. But it may not be that simple."

 

The international mission in Kosovo is the butt of many Albanian jokes, and the UN is often criticized for taking a colonialist approach. But both Kosovo and Western authorities are concerned about expectations as well. "I'm with the Kosovars 100 percent," says a high-ranking UN official. "But I think they aren't yet clear on the responsibilities that being a state will involve."

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0214/p01s02-woeu.html?page=2

[elle]

Саакашвили всерьез опасается возможных прецедентов после Косово

 

Президент Грузии Михаил Саакашвили призывает не играть с прецедентом Косово и не покушаться на территориальную целостность его страны в связи с возможным признанием независимости края.

 

"Грузинский народ никому не позволит перекроить грузинские границы. Сегодня мы стоим перед историческим вызовом, и хочу открыто и прямо предупредить всех за несколько дней до признания международным сообществом Косово, что мы никому не позволим покуситься на нашу целостность", - сказал М.Саакашвили в четверг вечером в Тбилиси на приеме в честь делегации Объединения президентов основных еврейских организаций США и Евразийского конгресса евреев.

 

"Разговор идет о моей стране, о расчленении Грузии, которая сохранила свое единство кровью грузинского народа в течение тысячелетий, и мы никогда не допустим, чтобы какая-либо сторона, сильная или слабая, покусилась на территориальную целостность и суверенитет Грузии", - заявил президент, подчеркнув, что желает, чтобы его "услышали везде".

 

Он отметил, что "тревожные сигналы в отношении Абхазии и Южной Осетии" появились на фоне позитивных изменений в грузино-российских отношениях, передает "Интерфакс".

 

"У нас в последнее время были позитивные переговоры с российской стороной, и мы договорились предварительно о том, что между Грузией и Россией будет восстановлено авиационное сообщение, и наша представительная делегация в составе заместителей главы МИД находится в Москве, чтобы договориться о возобновлении грузинского экспорта", - сказал президент.

 

"Мы предварительно договорились об открытии совместных таможенных пунктов на грузино-российской границе, в том числе и в конфликтных регионах, что снимет все проблемы для России по вступлению в ВТО при поддержке Грузии", - добавил М.Саакашвили.

 

Izvestia.ru

 

 

 

[Ashot]

MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia could be forced to reconsider its relations with two Georgian breakaway regions if Kosovo declares independence and it is recognized by other states, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

 

A separatist province in southern Serbia, Kosovo is expected to unilaterally declare its independence on Sunday.

 

Russia has repeatedly said that granting Kosovo sovereignty could set a precedent and trigger a chain reaction for secessionist regions throughout the world, including in Greece, Spain, Georgia, Moldova and Cyprus. But Western countries supporting Kosovo's independence insist that the case is unique, and that there is no threat of the weakening of international law.

 

"The declaration of sovereignty by Kosovo and its recognition will doubtlessly be taken into account in [Russia's] relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Still, Russia confirms its consistent intention to seek a peaceful settlement for the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South Ossetian conflicts within current formats and counter every attempt to solve the problem by force," the ministry said.

 

The statement followed a meeting earlier on Friday between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the presidents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Sergei Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity.

 

The Russian minister discussed the consequences of Kosovo's independence for international law with the leaders of the self-proclaimed republics, which declared independence from Georgia following bloody conflicts in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse.

 

But Moscow repeatedly said Russia will not recognize the sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia if Kosovo's independence is recognized. During his final annual news conference as president on Thursday, Vladimir Putin said that if Western countries acknowledge Kosovo's independence, Russia has no plans to seek "non-legal" retaliation.

 

Russia, a veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council and Serbia's long-time ally, maintains that Belgrade and Pristina should continue seeking a compromise, and calls for security and humanitarian issues to be rectified in the province.

 

Kosovo has been a UN protectorate since the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia ended a conflict between Kosovo Albanians and Serb forces in 1999.

 

Serbia's territorial integrity was fixed in UN Security Council Resolution 1244, adopted in 1999.

 

The European Union is expected to approve a decision to deploy a 2,000-strong police and justice mission and a EU civil administration in Kosovo on Saturday night. The new mission, to be reinforced by a NATO contingent, is expected to replace a UN mission deployed in the region since 1999.

 

However, Russia's Foreign Ministry stated on Friday that only the UN Security Council can take the decision to change the format of the international mission in Kosovo.

 

"We are convinced that Security Council resolution 1244 is valid. And we draw the attention of our EU partners, who have said a great deal lately about their desire and decision to send an additional mission to the territory, that a change in the international makeup in Kosovo is possible only on the basis of an according decision by the Security Council," the ministry's official spokesman Mikhail Kamynin told the Russian Vesti TV channel.

 

He also said Moscow hoped the UN would restrain those countries that are pushing the Serb province to declare independence.

 

"Debate on the Kosovo problem at the UN Security Council should have a restraining influence on those forces that have been pushing Pristina toward independence," Kamynin said.

 

 

[Ashot]

There goes the real story behind it all!!! Russia doesn't care as much for the Serbia being a long time ally, it wants more out of hits...

2 facts - first one, if Cosovo is not granted independence then everything stays the same, except one minor thing - Gerogia has to really work hard to become a strong ally of Russia, meanin Russia gets Georgia back!!!

Second - if Cosovo becomes independent - Abkhazia and South Osetia will go tro war with Cosovo, right awa!!!

[Eurocentric]

I hope Russia recognizes the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

 

Screw the US, EU and their shiptar proxies.