A Serbian politician in Kosovo says Belgrade's furious reaction to the establishment of a Kosovo Security Force (KSF) is misplaced.
Rada Trajkovic, the president of the Kosovo-based Serbian Council, told Radio Free Europe – Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service that the "protests and complaints from Belgrade over the Kosovo Security Force" are being made too late to change any of the facts on the ground.
Rada Trajkovic, the president of the Kosovo-based Serbian Council, told Radio Free Europe – Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service that the "protests and complaints from Belgrade over the Kosovo Security Force" are being made too late to change any of the facts on the ground.
Trajkovic said protests will only contribute to "a wider gap between Serbs and Albanians."
Trajkovic added that Belgrade's negative reaction "is feeding the Kosovo Serbs' frustrations and could further separate Serbs from the international community."
Some Kosovo Serbs have shown willingness to join KSF, but hardline leaders in their community and the Serb Government in Belgrade, which still exerts influence over them, have opposed it.
Trajkovic added that Belgrade's negative reaction "is feeding the Kosovo Serbs' frustrations and could further separate Serbs from the international community."
Some Kosovo Serbs have shown willingness to join KSF, but hardline leaders in their community and the Serb Government in Belgrade, which still exerts influence over them, have opposed it.
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Sebaneau
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... http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/...ewsid=2542 Hackers attack Peščanik Peščanik, 25 January, 2009 The Peščanik [Hourglass] programme of Belgrade's independent Radio B92 reports a concerted hacker attack that has rendered its website inaccessible for the past few days, and also interfered with its broadcasts |
Sebaneau
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... You think that the Serbs are troublesome? Just read this: Tony Halpin, The Times, January 26, 2009 Russian Orthodox Church choses between 'ex-KGB candidates' as Patriarch http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5594067.ece |
Sebaneau
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... Radmila Trajković is most definitely NOT "a brave man" She is an upright woman 8-) |
Sebaneau
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... "I know a small number of Members of Parliament. I told some of them that I couldn't understand why none of them was willing to stand up and say: "'Would you like to know how to get out of this situation? "See that door over there? All you have to do is walk through it, and you'll be out. That door there, can't you see? "Recognize Kosovo immediately, for you'll never get it back anyway, and even if you did, you wouldn't know what to do with it. You know all this very well.' '--But we can't, there is the constitution.' "'--Well, change it'. "'--But we have passed resolutions.' "'--Pass new ones, and you'll no longer need the Russians: you'll go straight into the European Union for sure, which we all agree is the only way out. "You can claim ignorance, of course, but at least we'll know you're faking it --and the day will come when we'll ask you why you wasted all those years, given that you could have gotten out through that door.' "It seems that such tremendous psychological pressure has been built up that people who perfectly understand all of this don't dare to say it, preferring to behave like idiots instead. "Everyone is waiting for the verdict of the International Court of Justice, even though it cannot give Kosovo back to us. Kosovo was lost in 1990, when someone had the idea that you could rule by force over two million people who had no intention of being ruled by you. "If you were to win it back tomorrow, you would only get a permanent rebellion, lasting for as long as a single Albanian remained alive. All of this is well understood: that the whole story, and all the lies, all Jeremić's diplomatic victories, are nothing but a show, an excuse offered to people who had come to believe in Đinđić's concept, a pretence that we are confronted with objective new obstacles. "The key objective obstacle, in reality, is that we don't want it. Why don't we want it? Because we haven't given up the hope that Russia will help us realise Greater Serbia. This is the fantasy that still enslaves their imagination." http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2541 Srđa Popović: Serbian anomie - or a Chetnik-Informbiro [Cominform] government. Peščanik, 26 December 2008, Bosnian Institute, 24 January, 2009 |
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... Mr. Trajkovic is a brave man and inspired politician. The future of Kosovo is inevidible, and Beograd's hard-line policies will hurt Kosovo Serbs more in the long run and have little or no effect on Albanians who are already moving on and building a new country's future. |
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