Koštunica urges U.S. to drop Ahtisaari plan

Not one of the 18 US presidential candidates has ever said Ahti's name in any debate that I have watched so that should tell you all how important Kosovo is to my country.I have noticed that many Balkan people have delusions of grandeur which is oftentimes charming but people get real.The US does $400b worth of trade with China on an annual basis and as far as Russia is concerned do I as an American want the price of oil to go to $200 a gallon if Putin goes along with Chavez and Ahmadejan's plans to set the price of oil at whatever they want?Kosovo is Jerusalem to the Serbs no matter what ethinc groups live there just as Jerusalem is Jerusalem to my people regardless of the fact of how many Arabs live there.Shalom

I have to agree with Mr.Kostunica.It seams that rules are made to fit the highest bidder,with no regards to international laws.
And most important with no regards for human factor.

JHam.
I keep writting what I deem to be appropriate at this time. Knowing all the facts, it is hard to writte anything else but.
The problem here is that there need to be a compromise but, the way things are when you weigh everything, from 1913, the way Kosovo was taken over, 1918 with the TREATY OF VERASAILLE.
1943 AVNOJ, 1945, 1974 the Constitution (USTAV) and what Miloshevic did since he came to power and created 4 wars, almost half a million people died, 2-3 million refugees.
There is nothing more to be said.
Serbia, has lost a right to govern Kosovo. It does not anymore, and the way things are they will not in the future. Thats just the way things are in Kosovo.
Its going to be impossible to convince K-Albanians to agree to go under Serbian governing again.
So, I guess the only other solution is the question of Independence.
Dont think that Albanians are too happy with M. Ahtisari's plan, but after all it gives the a path towards Independence.
The good thing in all of this is that EU and NATO are involved in Kosovo, otherwise it probably would be a chaos and war.
So, I think you should be happy with Ahtisari's plan otherwise the other option would be catastrophic for both sides. I have truble imagining that anyone could choose the latter.

Its good that after all said and done, Kosovo will be in EU and there will be Serbia to follow.
But first Serbia has to realize that it needs NEW LEADERS.
Progressive, not radical.

Mr. Prime Minister,
That is your wishful thinking.
M. Ahtisari was appointed by UN and he did his job. He came up with the only solution, which he said it was very difficult but the only way out of gridlock.
No one said it was perfect, but it was the best under the circumstances.
Because you dont like it, you want something else that will suit you.
Well Mr. Prime Minister you cant have it!
You are in a wrong position.
You should let someone else govern Serbia.
RETIRE, thats my advice to you.
And hope that hand of justice wont grab you sometimes down the road.

Lazer you and fellows keep writing the way you are writing. I have heard this rhetoric before, heard all kinds of cheering because someone set a deadline and nothing happen you guys looked like ducks standing in the rain. Haven't you guys learned or you will you still listen to your representives? I advise you to open your eyes and see what is around before following others blindly.

Yes I do agree to abandon Ahtisaari plan and swith to fully independence.

The Ahtisari's plan was the best solution toward the serbian minority in Kosovo.

Sorry guys

briefly if B92 allows it,
The following will enlight most of doubts about Kosovo/a's future.
At first, I must confess that as all of the Albanian people inside the Ethnic Albania, and in diaspora too, I also as an inalienable part of one, appraise at high level with respect and devotion all of up to now attempts (political, diplomatic, economical, humanitarian and military) of the United States of America, managed and governed by the state administration of the ex-president Bill Clinton and the actual president George W. Bush in revival, life-saving and universal protection ( moral, humanitarian, democratic, legal etc.) of Albanian people and Kosovo. But, being that this is very important historical moment as well as the last chance to resolve properly the final status Kosovo according to the external self-determination, particularly the United States and the United Nations need to take into account historical right and International Law, not heterogeneous geopolitics, economics and military interests of the Europe which morally and legally is responsible for its unimproved historical and political mistakes toward Albania and Albanians which did twice through The Congress of Berlin (June 13 - July 13, 1878) and The London Conference of Ambassadors 1913, dividing them in two parts, and annexed them to Serbia, Greece and Montenegro.

These indisputable historical facts prove that origins of the conflict between Serbian and Albanians aren’t of the new date from Tito’s Yugoslavia (1945-1989), respectively from Slobodan Milosevic Yugoslavia (Serbia+ Montenegro, 1989-2000), but is very old since 1878; 1912-1913 as we mentioned above. However, by then up to now Albanians never stopped their attempts and struggles against Serbian colonial rule in order to release themselves and bring back their indigenous territories of the ethnic Albania. This our conclusion in favour of the historical and the self- determination of the Albanians and Kosovo witness and follows arguments : (I) Albanian Kosovo has been inhabited by the Illyrians, who are the ancestors of the present day Albanians who constitute over 90% of its inhabitants, and henceforth must be rightly called Albanian Kosovo. (II) Also, in 1878, Kosovo was part of natural Albania because of this fact in the same year (as a counter-replay to anti- Albanian resolutions, adopted by the Congress of Berlin) was founded the Albanian League of Prizren (1878) in sign of the revolt against the Ottomans, but for a short time it was destroyed by the military intervention of Russia and the Ottomans, which led the Great Powers’ Congress of Berlin in 1878 to enable Serbia and Montenegro to steal Albanian lands. That was the Russian intervention in favour of the Serbia and Montenegro which destroyed peaceful coexistence in the Balkans and is still destroying it. (III) Albanian Kosovo was a legal part of the independent of Albania (November 28, 1912). But it was invaded by military Serbia which committed genocide against its indigenous people. The injustice done by severing Albanian Kosovo from its motherland was crowned in the London Conference of Ambassadors (December 1912- August 1913).(IV) In 1918 Albanian Kosovo was inclusive in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by force and genocide, but it was flagrant act of colonialism, dividing Albanian territories, and giving rise to the Albanian right to the decolonization of Albanian Kosovo. During 1918-1919 Albanian Kosovo’s struggle for independence was crushed through genocide crimes committed for the fourth time by Serbia against its indigenous people, including the importation of Serbian colonists in Kosovo, respectively in Ethnic Albania. According to articles 20 and 22.4 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, the severance of Albanian Kosovo from Ethnic(natural) Albania is declared null and void and its independence from the colonizing Power is provisionally recognized.
In violation of the Covenant of the League of Nations, Albanian Kosovo was colonized in the period 1918-1941 by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and was officially declared and treated as a colony, through implanting Serbian colonists, expelling hundreds of thousands of the indigenous Albanian people, economic and mental persecution, terror, and liquidation; that is genocide. Turkey took part in that genocide operation be expelling over 300.000 Albanian from Albanian Kosovo to Istanbul, according to the Gentlemen Agreement with Yugoslavia in 1938.
Being that that Albanian Kosovo it’s not a legal property of Serbia and Serbs, Albanian people shouldn’t agree with imposition of the “conditional independence “ of Kosovo because one has never been Serbia’s territory, but Ethnic Albania’s integral natural, historical and geopolitical part. This is the main reason why Albanians shouldn’t give up from their historical and legitimate right of Kosovo. While, Serbian minority of 8% doesn’t have any legal right to call upon that Kosovo is part of Serbia, because one is colonial remnant in Kosovo from 1912 when Serbia by genocide and military force colonized and annexed Kosovo. This our conclusion proves and Serbian historian Dubravka Stojanovic (Professor at Philosophic Faculty of Belgrade University): “For Serbia the First Balkan War was the greatest historical moment, but for Albanians the same war was the biggest trauma because of the Great Powers of Europe adopted their unjust resolution of dividing of Albania in two parts, and Kosovo annexed to Serbia” (RSE, October 22, 2002). Also, as a professor Dubravka Stojanovic was written: “ In 1912, Serbia, very fast, militarily entered and occupied territory of Kosovo, Novi Pazar and a part of Macedonia”. (THB1NL (3 February, 2007 - 15:54).
These historical based facts, expounded by Dubravka Stojanovic that Kosovo was colonized by Serbia, also, are interlaced accurately by Prof. Dr .Robert Jackson : “Kosovo had long been part of the Ottoman Empire when it was conquered by Serbia in 1912. That right of conquest was confirmed by the League of the Nations at the end of the First World War by the inclusion of Kosovo in the new state of Yugoslavia.” (Robert Jackson, The Global Covenant- Human Conduct in a World of States, Oxford University, New York, 2000, p.278).

It’s important to stress the fact that, and during the Second World War the status of Albanians of Kosovo was remained unchanged, even though “in January 2, 1944 was hold the meeting of the National Liberation Movement about Kosovo political status which as known as the Bujan Conference. In this conference was adopted the Bujan Resolution, which defined Albanian Kosovo as a sovereign entity and a part of Albania and expressed its aim remain part of the Albanian state after the end of the Second World War. But the partisan army led by Tito crushed its indigenous people by committing all possible means of genocide against them.” (Noel Malcolm, Kosovo a Short History, Harper Perennial, New York, 1999, p.307-308)

After the end of the war in Yugoslavia (1945) in violation, and contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, according to the Yugoslavia’s Federal Constitution of 1946, Albanian Kosovo and its indigenous Albanian people were annexed by force of the Yugoslavia. According to the international law, this is an act of colonialism because of the fact it was against the will of Albanian people. In the same outlaw manner in 1989 (after Slobodan Milosevic took power in SRFY), Albanian Kosovo was again illegally and by force annexed by the Republic of Serbia, which matter breaks any structural connection between the two entities, and constitutes the obstruction of Albanian Kosovo’s exercise of its independence, statehood and sovereignty. This annexation was by force, and the commission of all forms of total obstruction of the internal self-determination which Albanian Kosovo had according to the constitution of the SFRY in the 1974. As a consequence all of these mentioned Serbia’s condemnable acts according to the Article 2 (4) of the United Nations Charter, and the international law, in July2, 1990, Kosovo’s parliament adopted the Declaration of independence of Albanian Kosovo; (2) the Constitution of September 7, 1990 (known as Kacanik’s Constitution) declaring Albanian Kosovo a republic ; (3) the Declaration of September 22,1991 as a sovereign independent state with the right of constitutional participation in the league of sovereign republic-states of Yugoslavia;(4) the Declaration of October 19, 1991 of Albanian Kosovo as a sovereign independent republic on the basis of the Referendum held from September 26 through 30, 1991 in the presence of international observers, with 87,01% of the electorate voting, from which 99,87% voted in favour of independence from the SFRY. This Referendum was according to the contemporary international law, and the UN Charter as well as to these resolutions, adopted by the Assembly of the United Nations: (i) Res.637(VII) Dec.16,1952.Right of Peoples and Nations to Self- Determination, (ii) Res.1514(XV) Dec.1960 on granting independence to dependent peoples; (iii) Res.2160 (XXI) Nov.30,1966. Forcible action depriving people of right to self-determination; (iv) Res. 2200(XXI) Dec.16,1966. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Art.1; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Art.1.; (v) Res.(XXV) Nov.30,1970. Emphasizing importance of universal realization of self-determination and condemning denial especially to people of southern Africa and Palestine; (vi) Res.33/44 Dec.13,1978. Decolonization; (vii) Res.34/103 Dec 14,1979. Hegemonism, and so on.
Ahtisaari’s plan must be in compliance with international law, and historical right of Albanians to Kosovo & ;nbs p; All of the international actors (USA, UN, EU, NATO, Contact Group) involved in settlement of Kosovo’s status, morally and legally are obliged to take into account valid and objective arguments according to historical and juridical rights of both parts (Serbian and Albanian) in conflict. Really, in this context is prepared and the United Nation plan on Kosovo which in February 2, 2007 was delivered and presented by its envoy, Marti Ahtisaari to Serbian authorities in Belgrade and Albanian government in Pristina. However, Marti Ahtisaari’s plan about Kosovo, official Belgrade at the same day rejects by motivation that one imply independence of Kosovo. Meanwhile, Albanian part accepted it with reluctance and pleasure hoping that the UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari will get in consideration its additional proposals to be completed his plan before submitted it to the Security Council of the United Nations.
Like the Albanian part in Pristina as well as mentioned relevant parts of international community (particularly USA) who invested, and really interested to resolve of Kosovo’s issue needn’t hurried with approving of Martti Ahtisaari’s plane because one "omitted" the external self-determination of Kosovo. This is a main reason why Martti Ahtisaari’s Plan couldn’t be presented to the UN Security Council before being completed with this important and unavoidable legal clause which is in conformity to " the Declaration Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in Accordance with the Charter of the UN"(See: GA Resolution 1514(XV),14 December 1960; and GA Resolution 2625(XXV),24 October 1970).
These are the main rational and legal reasons why Kosovo must be granted with full-external independence, not only with internal independence such as Martti Ahtisaari’s Plan expected as a first reasonable step. Indeed, Kosovo’s government isn’t in situation to refuse Martti Ahtisaari’s proposed plan, like did Serbia, but morally, historically and legally is obliged to give its additional suggests and proposals which concern to the settlement of the final political status of Kosovo in compliance to recognize the full right of the self-determination of 2 millions Albanian people who are the "hostages" of the colonial Great Serbia from 1912/1913 to June 10, 1999.
In this context, Martti Ahtisaari’s plan must take in consideration and these important historical and juridical reasons and arguments who are directly connected to the granting of full independence of Kosovo. First, historically, Kosovo has never been legal part of Serbian territory, but only genocidal and colonial plunder disjoined from the historical, geopolitical and integral territory of the ethnic natural Albania by the European Great Powers (19113).

Second, Kosovo belongs to the civilization (history, culture and language etc.) of the Western Europe because Albanians are Illyrians descendants, not at all Slaves or Muslims as Serbian quasi-history, politics and propaganda of the Serbian State and Orthodox Church try to sophisticate their history for centuries in the face of the world in order to hide their centennial colonial genocides committed on Albanians and ethnic Albania (1846-1999).
On the contrary of the Serbian invented myth about Kosovo battle 1389, which symbolize ancient history and right of Serbia and Serbs to Kosovo, "Serbia does not have a continuous history on Kosovo. For several hundred years, Kosovo was not part of Serbia, because there was no Serbia to be part of: during most of long Ottoman period, Serbia did not exist as an entity at all. Kosovo was annexed de facto by Serbia within living memory, in 1912; de jure it wasn’t annexed by the Serbian kingdom at all".(See excellent book, Introduction : Kosovo a Short History by Noel Malcolm, New York, 1999, p.xxxv). Also, Serbia and Serbs haven’t their religious and culture "cradle" in Kosovo because "the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church was not founded in Kosovo; it merely moved there after its original foundation in central Serbia was burnt down. Nor does the Patriarchate have any continuous history as an institution in Kosovo…, but in Rascia(Serbia), an area beyond Kosovo’s north- western border, and most of the important early medieval Serbian monasteries and churches were built outside Kosovo itself." (Ibidem, p. xxxv).
There’s no dilemma that historically Kosovo was Albanian territory, not Serbian as has written with incontestable arguments Prof. Dr. Noel Malcolm in his mentioned excellent and realistic book about Kosovo. Indeed, that Kosovo has never been Serbian land, but Albanian which in 1371 has been part of the Albanian feudal state of the Balsha’s which was defeated by the Ottomans in 1389.
Third, Kosovo isn’t Serbian minority problem (as official Belgrade and Serbian Orthodox Church are manipulating with 8% of Serbs in Kosovo under the pretext that they are victims of the Albanian majority of 90%. This is falls argument which Serbia, and Serbian Orthodox Church are using to blame Albanians, instead to blame themselves for all their colonial aggressions toward Kosovo- Albania and Albanians ), but ancient colonial problem which must be resolved in accordance with International Positive Law and the United Nations Chart. Fourth, in order to reach definitely political compromise between Serbs and Albanians, Martti Ahtisaari’s plan must include the necessary international juridical clause of the external self- determination which theoretically and practically means full independence of Kosovo, not internal which directly and indirectly Belgrade want to be implied to Kosovo by international community because it will be only "legal way" to keep still its colonial plunder like 100 years ago (1878-2007).
Basically, Martti Ahtisaari’s plan about final status of Kosovo should be accepted by Pristina’s government and Albanian political parties, only if it contains the full external independence of Kosovo, otherwise won’t be changed the status quo of Kosovo, event though Martti Ahtisaari’s plan expect conditional independence of Kosovo under international oversee i.e. the European Union (EU) which (politically) could consider as a first "equilibrate" and "fair" step by the international community, it won’t be a good guaranty in the service of international legality for peace and justice for all.

As the United States as well as the United Nations, European Union, NATO etc. should bear in mind the fact that only way to reach historical compromise between disputed parts, and lasting peace and stability in Balkans is immediately recognition of the external self-determination of Kosovo as a independent, sovereign, democratic and multiethnic state within which will include and respect the rule of law and all human rights to the all ethnic and religious minorities.

"I have to agree with Mr.Kostunica.It seams that rules are made to fit the highest bidder,with no regards to international laws. "

If all the world thought like you, then the Balkans would still be under Ottoman rule because the Ottomans didn't like to lose territory. The US would still be under British rule because the Brits didn't like to lose territory etc etc.After all it was their territory for a long time.Thankfully things don't work that way in the real world.

On the contrary it is because the human factor is being taken account that we have a Kosova/o issue today.

To answer Luciano. I am an American too. Just because you have an American citizenship it doesn't give you the right to speak in the name of the American people. By the way don't worry about Putin's oil prices. We buy the vast majority of it from Canada and Canada is our friend.

Well, in my opinion Ahtisaari plan is not bad at all when is about giving guarantees for the K/Serbs; the only problem is that the proposal simply puts Kosovo out of Serbia de jure, and we should all agree, regardless our ethnicity/nationality/simpaties, that no country would easily accept to give up some of its territory.
However, I invite all of you to read the last report of ICG, regarding Kosovo's future, the role of EU and possible scenarios. The paper is named "Breaking the Kosovo Stalemate: Europe’s Responsibility" (www.icg.org). It is quite comprehensive and explains how immediate future may look down here (something important especially for few of us living/working in Kosovo...)

Best,
George

Since Kostunica likes to talk so much about fairness. Why isn't he asking the Russians not to back Serbia. You know it is easy to reach a compromise that way too. Far easier I would say.

To all those posters and people who insist Kosovo is Albanian because Kosovo Albanians are Illyrian please follow this link.

http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2005/08/haplogroup-frequency-correlations-in.html

Genetic Haplotype testing proving the overwhelming majority of Kosovo Albanians are E3B Haplotype which has nothing to do with Illyrians. Note the difference between Tosc and Gheg Albanians... Tosc Abanaians from Albania may be Illyrian but Ghegs are certainly not. They are two very different peoples with a common language, that's about it.

"They are two very different peoples with a common language, that's about it.
(Cygnus, 26. August 2007 17:06)"

Albanians = Illyrian.
Serbs = Slavic

Cygnus,
You have NOT convinced me of anything.
You, personally do not know the difference between Toske and Gege.
Your genetical proposition here is based on some numbers, since i followed the link, I did not get any info to counter what I already know.
Have you done studies on Kosovar Albanians?
How did you get the Genetic code for Illyrians?
Just tell me.

Mr. Prime Minister,
That is your wishful thinking.
M. Ahtisari was appointed by UN and he did his job. He came up with the only solution, which he said it was very difficult but the only way out of gridlock.
No one said it was perfect, but it was the best under the circumstances.
Because you dont like it, you want something else that will suit you.
Well Mr. Prime Minister you cant have it!
You are in a wrong position.
You should let someone else govern Serbia.
RETIRE, thats my advice to you.
And hope that hand of justice wont grab you sometimes down the road.

Yes I do agree to abandon Ahtisaari plan and swith to fully independence.

The Ahtisari's plan was the best solution toward the serbian minority in Kosovo.

Sorry guys

JHam.
I keep writting what I deem to be appropriate at this time. Knowing all the facts, it is hard to writte anything else but.
The problem here is that there need to be a compromise but, the way things are when you weigh everything, from 1913, the way Kosovo was taken over, 1918 with the TREATY OF VERASAILLE.
1943 AVNOJ, 1945, 1974 the Constitution (USTAV) and what Miloshevic did since he came to power and created 4 wars, almost half a million people died, 2-3 million refugees.
There is nothing more to be said.
Serbia, has lost a right to govern Kosovo. It does not anymore, and the way things are they will not in the future. Thats just the way things are in Kosovo.
Its going to be impossible to convince K-Albanians to agree to go under Serbian governing again.
So, I guess the only other solution is the question of Independence.
Dont think that Albanians are too happy with M. Ahtisari's plan, but after all it gives the a path towards Independence.
The good thing in all of this is that EU and NATO are involved in Kosovo, otherwise it probably would be a chaos and war.
So, I think you should be happy with Ahtisari's plan otherwise the other option would be catastrophic for both sides. I have truble imagining that anyone could choose the latter.

Its good that after all said and done, Kosovo will be in EU and there will be Serbia to follow.
But first Serbia has to realize that it needs NEW LEADERS.
Progressive, not radical.

briefly if B92 allows it,
The following will enlight most of doubts about Kosovo/a's future.
At first, I must confess that as all of the Albanian people inside the Ethnic Albania, and in diaspora too, I also as an inalienable part of one, appraise at high level with respect and devotion all of up to now attempts (political, diplomatic, economical, humanitarian and military) of the United States of America, managed and governed by the state administration of the ex-president Bill Clinton and the actual president George W. Bush in revival, life-saving and universal protection ( moral, humanitarian, democratic, legal etc.) of Albanian people and Kosovo. But, being that this is very important historical moment as well as the last chance to resolve properly the final status Kosovo according to the external self-determination, particularly the United States and the United Nations need to take into account historical right and International Law, not heterogeneous geopolitics, economics and military interests of the Europe which morally and legally is responsible for its unimproved historical and political mistakes toward Albania and Albanians which did twice through The Congress of Berlin (June 13 - July 13, 1878) and The London Conference of Ambassadors 1913, dividing them in two parts, and annexed them to Serbia, Greece and Montenegro.

These indisputable historical facts prove that origins of the conflict between Serbian and Albanians aren’t of the new date from Tito’s Yugoslavia (1945-1989), respectively from Slobodan Milosevic Yugoslavia (Serbia+ Montenegro, 1989-2000), but is very old since 1878; 1912-1913 as we mentioned above. However, by then up to now Albanians never stopped their attempts and struggles against Serbian colonial rule in order to release themselves and bring back their indigenous territories of the ethnic Albania. This our conclusion in favour of the historical and the self- determination of the Albanians and Kosovo witness and follows arguments : (I) Albanian Kosovo has been inhabited by the Illyrians, who are the ancestors of the present day Albanians who constitute over 90% of its inhabitants, and henceforth must be rightly called Albanian Kosovo. (II) Also, in 1878, Kosovo was part of natural Albania because of this fact in the same year (as a counter-replay to anti- Albanian resolutions, adopted by the Congress of Berlin) was founded the Albanian League of Prizren (1878) in sign of the revolt against the Ottomans, but for a short time it was destroyed by the military intervention of Russia and the Ottomans, which led the Great Powers’ Congress of Berlin in 1878 to enable Serbia and Montenegro to steal Albanian lands. That was the Russian intervention in favour of the Serbia and Montenegro which destroyed peaceful coexistence in the Balkans and is still destroying it. (III) Albanian Kosovo was a legal part of the independent of Albania (November 28, 1912). But it was invaded by military Serbia which committed genocide against its indigenous people. The injustice done by severing Albanian Kosovo from its motherland was crowned in the London Conference of Ambassadors (December 1912- August 1913).(IV) In 1918 Albanian Kosovo was inclusive in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by force and genocide, but it was flagrant act of colonialism, dividing Albanian territories, and giving rise to the Albanian right to the decolonization of Albanian Kosovo. During 1918-1919 Albanian Kosovo’s struggle for independence was crushed through genocide crimes committed for the fourth time by Serbia against its indigenous people, including the importation of Serbian colonists in Kosovo, respectively in Ethnic Albania. According to articles 20 and 22.4 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, the severance of Albanian Kosovo from Ethnic(natural) Albania is declared null and void and its independence from the colonizing Power is provisionally recognized.
In violation of the Covenant of the League of Nations, Albanian Kosovo was colonized in the period 1918-1941 by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and was officially declared and treated as a colony, through implanting Serbian colonists, expelling hundreds of thousands of the indigenous Albanian people, economic and mental persecution, terror, and liquidation; that is genocide. Turkey took part in that genocide operation be expelling over 300.000 Albanian from Albanian Kosovo to Istanbul, according to the Gentlemen Agreement with Yugoslavia in 1938.
Being that that Albanian Kosovo it’s not a legal property of Serbia and Serbs, Albanian people shouldn’t agree with imposition of the “conditional independence “ of Kosovo because one has never been Serbia’s territory, but Ethnic Albania’s integral natural, historical and geopolitical part. This is the main reason why Albanians shouldn’t give up from their historical and legitimate right of Kosovo. While, Serbian minority of 8% doesn’t have any legal right to call upon that Kosovo is part of Serbia, because one is colonial remnant in Kosovo from 1912 when Serbia by genocide and military force colonized and annexed Kosovo. This our conclusion proves and Serbian historian Dubravka Stojanovic (Professor at Philosophic Faculty of Belgrade University): “For Serbia the First Balkan War was the greatest historical moment, but for Albanians the same war was the biggest trauma because of the Great Powers of Europe adopted their unjust resolution of dividing of Albania in two parts, and Kosovo annexed to Serbia” (RSE, October 22, 2002). Also, as a professor Dubravka Stojanovic was written: “ In 1912, Serbia, very fast, militarily entered and occupied territory of Kosovo, Novi Pazar and a part of Macedonia”. (THB1NL (3 February, 2007 - 15:54).
These historical based facts, expounded by Dubravka Stojanovic that Kosovo was colonized by Serbia, also, are interlaced accurately by Prof. Dr .Robert Jackson : “Kosovo had long been part of the Ottoman Empire when it was conquered by Serbia in 1912. That right of conquest was confirmed by the League of the Nations at the end of the First World War by the inclusion of Kosovo in the new state of Yugoslavia.” (Robert Jackson, The Global Covenant- Human Conduct in a World of States, Oxford University, New York, 2000, p.278).

It’s important to stress the fact that, and during the Second World War the status of Albanians of Kosovo was remained unchanged, even though “in January 2, 1944 was hold the meeting of the National Liberation Movement about Kosovo political status which as known as the Bujan Conference. In this conference was adopted the Bujan Resolution, which defined Albanian Kosovo as a sovereign entity and a part of Albania and expressed its aim remain part of the Albanian state after the end of the Second World War. But the partisan army led by Tito crushed its indigenous people by committing all possible means of genocide against them.” (Noel Malcolm, Kosovo a Short History, Harper Perennial, New York, 1999, p.307-308)

After the end of the war in Yugoslavia (1945) in violation, and contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, according to the Yugoslavia’s Federal Constitution of 1946, Albanian Kosovo and its indigenous Albanian people were annexed by force of the Yugoslavia. According to the international law, this is an act of colonialism because of the fact it was against the will of Albanian people. In the same outlaw manner in 1989 (after Slobodan Milosevic took power in SRFY), Albanian Kosovo was again illegally and by force annexed by the Republic of Serbia, which matter breaks any structural connection between the two entities, and constitutes the obstruction of Albanian Kosovo’s exercise of its independence, statehood and sovereignty. This annexation was by force, and the commission of all forms of total obstruction of the internal self-determination which Albanian Kosovo had according to the constitution of the SFRY in the 1974. As a consequence all of these mentioned Serbia’s condemnable acts according to the Article 2 (4) of the United Nations Charter, and the international law, in July2, 1990, Kosovo’s parliament adopted the Declaration of independence of Albanian Kosovo; (2) the Constitution of September 7, 1990 (known as Kacanik’s Constitution) declaring Albanian Kosovo a republic ; (3) the Declaration of September 22,1991 as a sovereign independent state with the right of constitutional participation in the league of sovereign republic-states of Yugoslavia;(4) the Declaration of October 19, 1991 of Albanian Kosovo as a sovereign independent republic on the basis of the Referendum held from September 26 through 30, 1991 in the presence of international observers, with 87,01% of the electorate voting, from which 99,87% voted in favour of independence from the SFRY. This Referendum was according to the contemporary international law, and the UN Charter as well as to these resolutions, adopted by the Assembly of the United Nations: (i) Res.637(VII) Dec.16,1952.Right of Peoples and Nations to Self- Determination, (ii) Res.1514(XV) Dec.1960 on granting independence to dependent peoples; (iii) Res.2160 (XXI) Nov.30,1966. Forcible action depriving people of right to self-determination; (iv) Res. 2200(XXI) Dec.16,1966. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Art.1; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Art.1.; (v) Res.(XXV) Nov.30,1970. Emphasizing importance of universal realization of self-determination and condemning denial especially to people of southern Africa and Palestine; (vi) Res.33/44 Dec.13,1978. Decolonization; (vii) Res.34/103 Dec 14,1979. Hegemonism, and so on.
Ahtisaari’s plan must be in compliance with international law, and historical right of Albanians to Kosovo & ;nbs p; All of the international actors (USA, UN, EU, NATO, Contact Group) involved in settlement of Kosovo’s status, morally and legally are obliged to take into account valid and objective arguments according to historical and juridical rights of both parts (Serbian and Albanian) in conflict. Really, in this context is prepared and the United Nation plan on Kosovo which in February 2, 2007 was delivered and presented by its envoy, Marti Ahtisaari to Serbian authorities in Belgrade and Albanian government in Pristina. However, Marti Ahtisaari’s plan about Kosovo, official Belgrade at the same day rejects by motivation that one imply independence of Kosovo. Meanwhile, Albanian part accepted it with reluctance and pleasure hoping that the UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari will get in consideration its additional proposals to be completed his plan before submitted it to the Security Council of the United Nations.
Like the Albanian part in Pristina as well as mentioned relevant parts of international community (particularly USA) who invested, and really interested to resolve of Kosovo’s issue needn’t hurried with approving of Martti Ahtisaari’s plane because one "omitted" the external self-determination of Kosovo. This is a main reason why Martti Ahtisaari’s Plan couldn’t be presented to the UN Security Council before being completed with this important and unavoidable legal clause which is in conformity to " the Declaration Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in Accordance with the Charter of the UN"(See: GA Resolution 1514(XV),14 December 1960; and GA Resolution 2625(XXV),24 October 1970).
These are the main rational and legal reasons why Kosovo must be granted with full-external independence, not only with internal independence such as Martti Ahtisaari’s Plan expected as a first reasonable step. Indeed, Kosovo’s government isn’t in situation to refuse Martti Ahtisaari’s proposed plan, like did Serbia, but morally, historically and legally is obliged to give its additional suggests and proposals which concern to the settlement of the final political status of Kosovo in compliance to recognize the full right of the self-determination of 2 millions Albanian people who are the "hostages" of the colonial Great Serbia from 1912/1913 to June 10, 1999.
In this context, Martti Ahtisaari’s plan must take in consideration and these important historical and juridical reasons and arguments who are directly connected to the granting of full independence of Kosovo. First, historically, Kosovo has never been legal part of Serbian territory, but only genocidal and colonial plunder disjoined from the historical, geopolitical and integral territory of the ethnic natural Albania by the European Great Powers (19113).

Second, Kosovo belongs to the civilization (history, culture and language etc.) of the Western Europe because Albanians are Illyrians descendants, not at all Slaves or Muslims as Serbian quasi-history, politics and propaganda of the Serbian State and Orthodox Church try to sophisticate their history for centuries in the face of the world in order to hide their centennial colonial genocides committed on Albanians and ethnic Albania (1846-1999).
On the contrary of the Serbian invented myth about Kosovo battle 1389, which symbolize ancient history and right of Serbia and Serbs to Kosovo, "Serbia does not have a continuous history on Kosovo. For several hundred years, Kosovo was not part of Serbia, because there was no Serbia to be part of: during most of long Ottoman period, Serbia did not exist as an entity at all. Kosovo was annexed de facto by Serbia within living memory, in 1912; de jure it wasn’t annexed by the Serbian kingdom at all".(See excellent book, Introduction : Kosovo a Short History by Noel Malcolm, New York, 1999, p.xxxv). Also, Serbia and Serbs haven’t their religious and culture "cradle" in Kosovo because "the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church was not founded in Kosovo; it merely moved there after its original foundation in central Serbia was burnt down. Nor does the Patriarchate have any continuous history as an institution in Kosovo…, but in Rascia(Serbia), an area beyond Kosovo’s north- western border, and most of the important early medieval Serbian monasteries and churches were built outside Kosovo itself." (Ibidem, p. xxxv).
There’s no dilemma that historically Kosovo was Albanian territory, not Serbian as has written with incontestable arguments Prof. Dr. Noel Malcolm in his mentioned excellent and realistic book about Kosovo. Indeed, that Kosovo has never been Serbian land, but Albanian which in 1371 has been part of the Albanian feudal state of the Balsha’s which was defeated by the Ottomans in 1389.
Third, Kosovo isn’t Serbian minority problem (as official Belgrade and Serbian Orthodox Church are manipulating with 8% of Serbs in Kosovo under the pretext that they are victims of the Albanian majority of 90%. This is falls argument which Serbia, and Serbian Orthodox Church are using to blame Albanians, instead to blame themselves for all their colonial aggressions toward Kosovo- Albania and Albanians ), but ancient colonial problem which must be resolved in accordance with International Positive Law and the United Nations Chart. Fourth, in order to reach definitely political compromise between Serbs and Albanians, Martti Ahtisaari’s plan must include the necessary international juridical clause of the external self- determination which theoretically and practically means full independence of Kosovo, not internal which directly and indirectly Belgrade want to be implied to Kosovo by international community because it will be only "legal way" to keep still its colonial plunder like 100 years ago (1878-2007).
Basically, Martti Ahtisaari’s plan about final status of Kosovo should be accepted by Pristina’s government and Albanian political parties, only if it contains the full external independence of Kosovo, otherwise won’t be changed the status quo of Kosovo, event though Martti Ahtisaari’s plan expect conditional independence of Kosovo under international oversee i.e. the European Union (EU) which (politically) could consider as a first "equilibrate" and "fair" step by the international community, it won’t be a good guaranty in the service of international legality for peace and justice for all.

As the United States as well as the United Nations, European Union, NATO etc. should bear in mind the fact that only way to reach historical compromise between disputed parts, and lasting peace and stability in Balkans is immediately recognition of the external self-determination of Kosovo as a independent, sovereign, democratic and multiethnic state within which will include and respect the rule of law and all human rights to the all ethnic and religious minorities.

Well, in my opinion Ahtisaari plan is not bad at all when is about giving guarantees for the K/Serbs; the only problem is that the proposal simply puts Kosovo out of Serbia de jure, and we should all agree, regardless our ethnicity/nationality/simpaties, that no country would easily accept to give up some of its territory.
However, I invite all of you to read the last report of ICG, regarding Kosovo's future, the role of EU and possible scenarios. The paper is named "Breaking the Kosovo Stalemate: Europe’s Responsibility" (www.icg.org). It is quite comprehensive and explains how immediate future may look down here (something important especially for few of us living/working in Kosovo...)

Best,
George

"I have to agree with Mr.Kostunica.It seams that rules are made to fit the highest bidder,with no regards to international laws. "

If all the world thought like you, then the Balkans would still be under Ottoman rule because the Ottomans didn't like to lose territory. The US would still be under British rule because the Brits didn't like to lose territory etc etc.After all it was their territory for a long time.Thankfully things don't work that way in the real world.

On the contrary it is because the human factor is being taken account that we have a Kosova/o issue today.

To answer Luciano. I am an American too. Just because you have an American citizenship it doesn't give you the right to speak in the name of the American people. By the way don't worry about Putin's oil prices. We buy the vast majority of it from Canada and Canada is our friend.

Since Kostunica likes to talk so much about fairness. Why isn't he asking the Russians not to back Serbia. You know it is easy to reach a compromise that way too. Far easier I would say.

I have to agree with Mr.Kostunica.It seams that rules are made to fit the highest bidder,with no regards to international laws.
And most important with no regards for human factor.

Lazer you and fellows keep writing the way you are writing. I have heard this rhetoric before, heard all kinds of cheering because someone set a deadline and nothing happen you guys looked like ducks standing in the rain. Haven't you guys learned or you will you still listen to your representives? I advise you to open your eyes and see what is around before following others blindly.

Not one of the 18 US presidential candidates has ever said Ahti's name in any debate that I have watched so that should tell you all how important Kosovo is to my country.I have noticed that many Balkan people have delusions of grandeur which is oftentimes charming but people get real.The US does $400b worth of trade with China on an annual basis and as far as Russia is concerned do I as an American want the price of oil to go to $200 a gallon if Putin goes along with Chavez and Ahmadejan's plans to set the price of oil at whatever they want?Kosovo is Jerusalem to the Serbs no matter what ethinc groups live there just as Jerusalem is Jerusalem to my people regardless of the fact of how many Arabs live there.Shalom

To all those posters and people who insist Kosovo is Albanian because Kosovo Albanians are Illyrian please follow this link.

http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2005/08/haplogroup-frequency-correlations-in.html

Genetic Haplotype testing proving the overwhelming majority of Kosovo Albanians are E3B Haplotype which has nothing to do with Illyrians. Note the difference between Tosc and Gheg Albanians... Tosc Abanaians from Albania may be Illyrian but Ghegs are certainly not. They are two very different peoples with a common language, that's about it.

"They are two very different peoples with a common language, that's about it.
(Cygnus, 26. August 2007 17:06)"

Albanians = Illyrian.
Serbs = Slavic

Cygnus,
You have NOT convinced me of anything.
You, personally do not know the difference between Toske and Gege.
Your genetical proposition here is based on some numbers, since i followed the link, I did not get any info to counter what I already know.
Have you done studies on Kosovar Albanians?
How did you get the Genetic code for Illyrians?
Just tell me.