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Titolo: Kosovo: cosa fare?

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questi sanno cosa fare, però bisogna leggere in inglese, in Italia al 
momento, tutte le attenzioni sono circa il voto di Cossiga, il quale con 
la sua fiducia, ha salvato il governo
segue l'articolo:-
Kosovo set for 'supervised independence'
By Paul Reynolds
World affairs correspondent BBC News website
Kosovo Protection Corps members in Pristina
Kosovo Albanians parade in Pristina
The failure to reach agreement on the future of Kosovo is expected to 
lead to a declaration of independence by Kosovo Albanian leaders.
The timing of that declaration is not clear but the Kosovo Albanians are 
under pressure from their international supporters to delay it until 
early next year.
A report from a troika of negotiators - from the US, the EU and Russia - 
has been sent to the UN Secretary General Ban to meet a deadline of 10 
December.
"This is a document summarising the negotiating process and making clear 
that no agreement has been reached," said a British official. "The 
failure is not due to a lack of effort or energy. It is because there is 
no common ground."
Senior international diplomats say that Serbia has given assurances to 
the troika that it will not use force.
Support for Kosovo
The independence of Kosovo, albeit with limitations, will be supported 
by the United States and by most of the European Union member states, 
but not by Serbia and Russia, nor by the Serbian minority in Kosovo.
The US and EU have been urging the Kosovo Albanian leadership to 
co-ordinate their declaration with their international supporters. This 
is supposed to minimise the risk of destabilisation of the kind 
precipitated by the sudden recognition of Croatia by some EU states in 1991.
A short period is therefore expected while this co-ordination takes 
place. The EU summit in Brussels on 14 December could send a signal of 
support to Kosovo from a majority of EU states, though Greece and maybe 
one or two others are opposed to the idea of Kosovo's independence.
The EU is in any event likely to agree to send a police team to Kosovo 
in an extension of its moves into peacekeeping.
Security Council consultations will follow on 19 December, but these 
will probably confirm Russia's opposition.
End of story?
Those supporting an independent Kosovo hope it will bring an end to the 
story of the break-up of Yugoslavia. The US, the EU and Nato are 
determined to suppress potential violence in a way they did not or could 
not in the 1990s. Whether it closes that book or simply opens another 
chapter of tension is the critical question.
Certainly it will complicate the already difficult relations between 
Russia and the West even further. Russia argues that the Security 
Council, in resolution 1244, simply authorised Kosovo's self-government 
under the UN within Yugoslavia after the war of 1999, not its independence.
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Russia might argue that Kosovo is a precedent for enclaves sympathetic 
to Russia in other states, especially Georgia. The EU and US counter 
that Kosovo, the subject of oppression, a war and a UN resolution is unique.
However the troika process has shown that Serbia's offer of autonomy to 
Kosovo is not acceptable to the Kosovo Albanians and that the Kosovo 
Albanians' demand for independence is not acceptable to Serbia.
The Ahtisaari plan
Therefore, the supporters of independence argue, the plan drawn up for 
the UN by the former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari should now be 
implemented, with or without a new Security Council resolution. Russia 
blocked a resolution in the summer and is likely to do so again.
The plan calls for "supervised independence" for Kosovo. Kosovo would 
not be allowed to join any other state (i.e. Albania) and there are 
protections for the Serb minority and heritage. Nato's 16,000 troops 
will remain and the new EU police force will take over from UN personnel.
The plan has been accepted by Kosovo's Albanian leadership.
The European and American hope is that, despite the tensions and 
arguments and with some problems on the ground along the way, the 
process will in due course play out.
The carrot for the Serbs is that one day they will join the European 
Union and for this to happen, there will have to be peace.
But the loss of Kosovo, scene of a heroic Serb defeat against the 
Ottomans in 1389 that has become a symbol of its nationhood, will be a 
bitter pill for Serbia to swallow.