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| Serbia effectively seeks Kosovo partition-sources |
| 2008-03-19 |
| Serbia has offered to govern ethnic Serb areas in Kosovo, senior diplomatic sources said on Tuesday, a plan that would effectively partition the newly independent state. The proposal was made at the weekend by Serbia's Minister for Kosovo, Slobodan Samardzic, but was rejected by the United Nations administrators of Kosovo which has a 90 percent Albanian majority. "The proposal's goal seems to be the partition of Kosovo, literally for Serbia to govern in the enclaves," one source told Reuters. Another source in the U.N. mission UNMIK said this would be "a ratification of partition". Deputy UNMIK chief Larry Rossin confirmed on Tuesday that Samardzic, whom he met at the weekend, had delivered a document meant to be "a framework for a comprehensive relationship between Serbia and UNMIK". He would not comment on the contents. Backed by Russia, Serbia rejects the Feb. 17 secession of its former province and is instructing the 120,000 remaining Serbs to sever ties with the Albanian majority and ignore a European Union supervisory mission. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 KOMMERSANT > UKRAINIAN SPECIAL FORCES TO FIGHT SERBS, under UN Command and backed up by KFOR units, agz Serbian demonstrations; + NOT KOSOVO BUT CHECHNYA IS WHAT BROKE AWAY ACCORDING TO EACH TENTH IN USA [Survey]. HMMMMM, "Greater Kosovo" = "Greater Chechnya"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-19 00:55 |
| #1 RIAN > IRAN SAYS US MISSLE SHIELD [+ Radars, etc] IN TURKEY THREATENS RUSSIA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-19 00:45 |