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Surroi: Serbia can't teach Kosovo morals

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Veton Surroi
Former member of the Kosovo negotiating team in the two-year long talks with Serbia and publisher Veton Surroi in an interview with Serb television B92 said that it is offending the fact that Serbia talks about moral categories.

"Belgrade and Serbia has attempted to commit genocide in Kosovo whereas now even ten years afterwards it claims that this is not relevant, we did not do it, it was a different regime, this is not the same Serbia and we will take you to court. There must be a dose of reality, after this attempted genocide."

"When you have an attempt to uproot a whole population from its territory, then the case for its independence should not even be questioned. From the moral, political, and judicial aspect, the authorities in Serbia should make a step forward and say: we should forget the past, forget it so that we don't place the past in the current political context," said Surroi adding that Serbia should establish good neighborly relations with all people and countries with which it fought.

Surroi deems the Serb ICJ fight at the UN a success of the Serb diplomacy and a failure of the Kosovar one. However, he says that the “political game” is not in the interest of Serbia either.

"Kosovo could prove an extraordinary stumbling block for Belgrade on its path to EU. Whenever Serbia tries to speed up its path to EU, Kosovo will be the topic for which it will be told: wait, you can't talk about membership in the EU while not getting rid of the Kosovo issue."  

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Jeton said:

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Of course Serbia can not teach Kosovo any ethics, at least not until Serbia understands that it is the only nation after the WWII that has its entire state nomenclature being tried for war crimes, its president, army generals, heads of government, heads of security services, EVEN few Oposition Leaders (I don't think nazis had any oposition parties that actually cooperated with them)...which just goes to tell you who badly Serbia is a need of a national renewal (renesance).
Kosovo may and does have its problems, most of them thanks to "Serbian Morale Support", but we the Kosovars are not nearly in an identity crisis that some are going through. Fundamentals of a nationbuilding have been set in Kosovo, current problems are more of operational. day to day so to speak nature....not easy but no ethical problems...and Serbia deffinitelly can not teach that.
 
October 30, 2008
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Owen said:

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"In fact, Serbia CAN teach the population of Kosovo and Metohia some very important lessons in personal and group ethics."

Sometimes people should simply know to remain silent.
 
October 19, 2008
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arben said:

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Bob is Boban, or at least he wishes to be ...
 
October 11, 2008
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kujtimk said:

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Bob,

Thank you for "advice".
If we have to be "civilized" by superior Serbs, we rather choose to stay "barbarians".
Come on man, wake up and smell the coffee. Serbs committed worst atrocities in Europe since WWII. Let's see Vukovar, Sarajevo siege, Srbernica not to mention genocide attempt in Kosovo. Who are you kidding or you have been in coma last 2 decades?
All ex-Yugoslav people got rid of you. So show this self-claimed civilization by denouncing crimes of the past and looking forward for the future.
And please do not try to "civilize" neighbouring nations. This is not 19th century and we are not black (No disrespect for Africans, just paraphrasing the imperialistic ideas).
 
October 09, 2008
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Bob said:

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In fact, Serbia CAN teach the population of Kosovo and Metohia some very important lessons in personal and group ethics. While - EVEN during the Milosevic rule - Serbia NEVER desecrated Moslem places of worship, Albanian mob torched, stoned and defecated on just about anything that has a Serbian name or cross on it, whether it is a church, a cemetery or a monument - destroying some 200 irreplaceable historical places in a single day in the process. Some morals !

The population of Kosovo should think twice whether they wish to act like Taliban, or would prefer to rejoin their mother country (Serbia) and ultimately, through Serbia, be readmitted to the civilized family of nations. But the choice is theirs, not Serbia's.

Until they make a right decision, they will live in limbo of their own choosing, and be hostages to their own mafia, crime gangs, narco- and human trafickers and such.

I hope and pray that they make a right - and only - choice.

Until this happens, Kosovo population will reside in a stolen and pilfered land, devoid of faith and hope and doomed to go nowhere. That which is begotten in deceit and robery is doomed to ignoble and painful demise.
 
October 09, 2008
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Scanderbeg said:

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To Bob:
In 1998 no more than 200.000 serbs have lived in Kosovo (check any source you like). According to UN and OSCE today there are around 130-140 thousand Serbs living in Kosovo. That means that only 60-70 thousand Kosovo Serbs have left the country. Most of them were people of regime, working for the police, military or being somehow engaged in the genocidal machinery of Serbia. Most of them who fled the country have blod on their hands. If they want to come back, they will have to face courts of justice. There are already thousands of lawsuits in preparation, which will be waiting for them to come back.
Welcome to the independent Kosovo!
 
October 08, 2008
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dragana said:

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only uneducated people like Party Time can compare these two situations. I suggested you google how many people were killed during the holocaust and then compare that to the number of people killed during the war in jugoslavia. You will be very suprised when you actually find out the # of people killed.
 
October 08, 2008
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DomiNation said:

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A message to Kosovo Albanian leaders ....
You can dress in Armani suit while Serb leaders Almost LIV in Arab countries.

To all the Arab countries which have't recognized Kosovo Burn you. From today I am not Muslim long.
Serbia wan today with 77 states..........

 
October 08, 2008
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Bob said:

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Strangely enough Albanian politician doesn't talk about more then 200 thousand Kosovo Serbs who were expelled after NATO marched in. It seems for you Albanians there's only one genocide and only one side to look at this problem. That's why our two nations will stay on very opposite side for a long time. And, by building mono-ethnic Kosovo, Albanians will place Serbs as their ongoing enemies.
 
October 08, 2008
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Party TIME said:

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It looks like nazi Germany taking the Allies to court for having attacked her...
 
October 08, 2008
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