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Titolo: Serbia warns US, NATO not to "snatch" Kosovo

Serbia warns US, NATO not to "snatch" Kosovo
22 Sep 2007 14:22:50 GMT
Source: Reuters
 
BELGRADE, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica
warned the United States, NATO and Kosovo Albanians on Saturday they would
be responsible for devastating consequences if they "snatch" Kosovo and
declare it independent.
Serbia is offering wide autonomy for Kosovo. The Albanians, who have been
under U.N. rule for eight years, want full independence. They are to hold
direct talks in New York next week and have until Dec. 10 before a report
must go to the U.N.
"This time, they will implement a different strategy -- unilateral
recognition of independent Kosovo," Kostunica predicted in an interview
with Vecernje Novosti newspaper.
Asked what Serbia could do, Kostunica said: "One must clearly warn of the
devastating consequences of such violence, which has not happened since
the U.N. was established. And that's what we do all the time." 
He did not elaborate, but he appeared to be speaking of "violence" that
would be done to international law.
Kostunica said there were differences in his coalition government on how
Serbia should respond to an independence declaration, but said Belgrade
would focus diplomatic reprisals on NATO states that he believes
instigated secession.
"We must make a difference between the main player, without whom the whole
issue of independence would have never been raised. That is NATO," he said.
"This has nothing to do with the European Union. Not for the slightest
moment have we questioned Serbia's European integration. Besides, a number
of EU members are not NATO members."
LAST DITCH TALKS
Kostunica said he believed a solution could still be found to settle the
status of Kosovo on the basis of the United Nations Charter, which upholds
Serbian sovereignty over the 90-percent Albanian majority.
But "the Albanians, supported especially by their American partners" were
simply waiting for the clock to run out on the 120-day period set for
last-ditch negotiations before declaring an impasse and doing what they
have planned all along, he said.
Responding to a question on whether Serbia would send in troops if Kosovo
declared independence, he said: "Our attention right now is focused on
making sure there is no unilateral declaration of independence. And if it
happens, to make sure that our ties with our people in the province remain
unbroken."
Only Russia "is firm in its stand that international law must be
respected", he said. Russia had helped stop a NATO plan to grab Serb
territory for the Albanians by stealth, he said.
"The intention was, swiftly, quietly and in the dark so that no one can
see it, to snatch a part of territory from Serbia. We have managed to turn
on the light and ignite a huge debate," he said.
Serbia's autonomy offer to Kosovo's two million Albanians includes no
offer to restore their citizenship in Serbia.
The Albanians have no desire for it, having suffered thousands of
casualties at the hands of Serb forces in 1998-99 before NATO intervened
to stop ethnic cleansing -- an aspect of the argument rarely addressed by
Kostunica.
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 negoziato.
Certo che se i dirigenti sovietici e americani della guerra fredda fossero
stati tutti come te e come molti dirigenti americani iraniani israeliani
palestinesi ecc. di oggi, che vede come alternativa solo l'alleanza o la
guerra, al primo casino al Muro partivano un centinaio di missili con
testata atomica... e non saremmo qui a scrivere su IPI

 NATO.
ROTFL ricordi le conferenze di Yalta e Potsdam?