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Wednesday, 26.03.2008.

16:56

UNMIK again blocks medicines for Serbs

A shipment of medical supplied destined for healthcare institutions in the Kosovo Serb enclaves has been confiscated.

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Matthew

pre 16 godina

“Seems like it has to be made abundantly clear that the rules of an independent country need to be respected. (C, 27 March 2008 17:24)”

C,

I absolutely agree with you.

However, I’m having a great deal of difficultly understanding the whole independence process here, maybe you can help me. Only a handful of countries have recognized Kosovo as independent. The UN has not. No major international organizations have.

Even the EU did not have the political will power to recognize Kosovo, only to reach a consensus that recognition is up to the individual states.

So what does that mean and how should that be defined in legal terms? How does it work?

You seem to be claiming that those who do not choose to recognize Kosovo as independent must still recognize and treat it as such. If so, then why wouldn’t the EU as a whole recognize Kosovo then? Why did not the UN vote on it? Do you not believe in democracy? Or do you only believe in democracy for rich western countries? Should the voices and needs of poorer less developed countries be ignored? I personally believe in Global Democracy and not for only those of us blessed enough to be born in a prosperous “modern” country.

Instead the EU choose to accept and expect that different countries could have different standards and different relations with Kosovo, its entirely up to each individual country to recognize Kosovo, if Kosovo is not “independent” by a particular countries standards, then it can not be bound by the rules of a country that does not exist legally in their judicial system, its impossible. That was the consensus reached by the EU as a whole and thus should be respected. Even the US Supreme Court recently affirmed that the laws of individual states are above international law and treaties, and thus it is not legally bound by such things as specifically the Geneva Convention (Duty to inform local embassy of arrest of one of their nationals). If US and EU law and agreements both support Serbia’s stand that it does not need abide by or respect the laws of the Kosovar government, how do you support a completely contradictory stance?

Seriously, what did you expect to happen going for independence this way?

Look, I deeply respect some of the Albanians here and I’m extremely sorry for the abuses they and their loved ones suffered. I’ve always supported a peaceful partition founded on a mutually agreed upon compromise. I’d even consider Presevo in exchange for some type of concessions towards our Historic sites which we consider to be the very cradle and foundation of our civilization.

Of course we are not going to recognize your government in the North, that clearly will always stay in Serbia, just as Serbia really could not control the Albanian parts. There’s just no way to force a population (either Albanian or Serbian) who have suffered some very horrible things under one another to live under the rule of the other without their consent. That much is obvious.

This will continue. Medical supplies should not be the topic of such obviously political disagreements. The ICJ needs to immediately rule on whether this is a war crime or a human right’s violation.

odi

pre 16 godina

Guys , nobody is denying Kosovo Serbs to get their medicine, stop being ridiculous! There are Laws, everything entering Kosovo has to be reported to the authorities starting from bananas and chewing gums etc. The fact that your Government is too proud to get an authorisation at the border when knowing that these medicine will be blocked if you dont do so,just like in any other normal country, says enough!
Dont act as if you are in a New Found Land!

Peggy

pre 16 godina

Jan Anderson, why do you feel the need to provide us with the fact that you are not Albanian?

Does that somehow make you more credible? We all have opinions here and non Serbs back Serbs too. So what?

Are you that uncaring to actually excuse this horrible behaviour of blocking vital medicine with no paperwork bull?

Russia doesn't need permission from Kosovo since it doesn't recognise Kosovo as a state. US doesn't need permission from Serbia to ship arms to Kosovo since it does recognise Kosovo.

I think sending medicine is a lot more humane than guns. What's your opinion?

C

pre 16 godina

Matthew,

Okay, fair enough. You've seen what happens when you don't abide by the rules of the country in question. Let's play by the Serbian rules, and see where that take you. Seems like it has to be made abundantly clear that the rules of an independent country need to be respected. If you choose to ignore them, you can forget about delivery. Shame on those playing politics on the Serbian side - yet acting in the name of 'medical expediency.' I am sure the Kosovo Serbs need them, its a shame the Serbian Government wants to play politics here

Jan Andersen, DK

pre 16 godina

On 27 March 2008, 02:47, Peggy wrote:

"Albanian posters here should be ashamed of themselves. Citing things like "proper paperwork" is very uncaring indeed when you have people's lives depending on this shipment of medicine."

And refusing to fill out some random papers because you don't recognize the government demanding those papers "... is very uncaring indeed when you have people's lives depending on this shipment of medicine."

PS: And I am not Albanian.

Nenad

pre 16 godina

Dear Jan Anderson,
As to your insistence that you are not Albanian, it does not matter whether you are or whether you are not.
What matters is whether you support ridiculous issues that prevent medical supplies going to sick people.
That makes you a rather unquie person doesn't it?
You are less of a person than those who want to hurt the Serbs because they are Albanian.
You should know better if you were truly independently minded.

Felix, Romania

pre 16 godina

I thought the UNMIK represented the UN. As the UN has not recognised Kosovo, I do not understand how they would recommend or impose the Kosovo Drug Agency (grim name really - probably the same arm of the KLA in charge with the strong stuff).

Is it that via UNMIK we are now beginning to see the true colours of the UN, in fact? It appears that they are lying about their policies and abusing a UN resolution.

Well, if they took the liberty to confiscate urgent medicine shipments, they are then responsible for supplying medicines to those in need. Or is it that now they are no longer interested in human rights and politics prevail?

I tell you, the way it looks... one day there will be retribuiton.

Ashley

pre 16 godina

The biggest form of human rights violation is the withholding of medical supplies for sick. This is absolutely disgusting on the part of the UN and EU but to be expected from the animal albanians. It is very ironic that the region has the biggest flow of illegal drug trafficking by the KLA mafia but they all of a sudden sanction legal medicinal drugs for the Serb population. The world has to wake up before the final stage of the albanian ethnic cleansing of the Serbs are completed.

Matthew

pre 16 godina

C,

Since everyone decided that recognizing Kosovo was up to individual states, and Serbia declined to do so, it is not bound by any laws of the Kosovo “government”. So countries that recognize Kosovo would have to abide by such rules, and those that don’t, need to follow the rules of Serbia. Its pretty simple really. That is the path the Albanians of Kosovo chose to take. If they didn’t want it to function that way, maybe they should have come to an agreement on partition instead of going for the whole pie. Now the world truly is in chaos and the rule of law is meaningless…

I suggest that Russia send her own EULEX style mission to Kosovo to help in aid distribution. Obviously, there is no requirement for UN approval for such actions anymore. The Serbs of Kosovo have been requesting such action. Essentially what we have is simply a war zone, and regardless of what side you take, we must all agree to let humanitarian aid reach opposing sides.

Peggy

pre 16 godina

While Kosovo Serbs are at the risk of dying, Thaci plays his sick game of politics.

Albanian posters here should be ashamed of themselves. Citing things like "proper paperwork" is very uncaring indeed when you have people's lives depending on this shipment of medicine.

But then again, since when was a Serbian life important to Albanians? All that's important are the organs for harvesting.

Penjack, USA

pre 16 godina

Jan Andersen, DK wrote, "And now you complain when they actually try to impose some control, some demand for proper paperworks, before stuff are getting across the borders."

Ah yes the "Paperworks"!
Does Hashim "the Snake" Thaci have the "paperworks" from the UN recognizing Kosovo as an independent country?
Where was the "paperworks" authorizing Albanian terrorist to remove organs from kidnapped Serbs?

Amazing that terrorist require "paperworks" to provide humanitarian aid to the sick.
The only "paperworks" KLA terrorist are familiar with is on a roll in the bathroom.

Jan Andersen, DK

pre 16 godina

Okay Serbs

On one hand you complain loudly and accuses Albanians (and by implication the Kosovars) for being the kings of illegal drug trading in the Balkans and Europe.

And now you complain when they actually try to impose some control, some demand for proper paperworks, before stuff are getting across the borders.

So what is it? Is it going to be a free-for-all-import, or a system where importers need to go through some red tape?

The Swiss

pre 16 godina

Ah, yeah...the racist attitude of a 'drug-trafficking mafia state'...we're all so used to that type of propaganda, it's become too comic...
(C, 26 March 2008 20:05)

Kosovo Drug Agency.. well, I hope there are not the same that approved the white powder traffic towards EU!!

Of course, this is only propaganda, made by The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)!

Am sure that all the relatives of people who died from it or are suffering from it wouldn't find your comment to comic!!

Jovan

pre 16 godina

"Ah, yeah...the racist attitude of a 'drug-trafficking mafia state'...we're all so used to that type of propaganda, it's become too comic...
(C, 26 March 2008 20:05)"

dear "C"

even a german newspaper "FAZ" published an article on sunday , march 16th with the headline saying "crime does pay off" referring to Kosovo "where organized crime has now it´s own state"

so, when even the newspapers in Germany don´t deny it, why are you continuing to act/play the little white dove-part?

WHO for heavens sake do you think will believe you???

it´s obvious, and every single letter you write in the attempt to deny it is simply ridiculous!
keep that in mind, my dear "C"...when you decide to post another comment.

C

pre 16 godina

Guys, you must be out of your minds!! This is a country of laws and they need to be respected.

The rules are simple: stuff can't be imported from outside without valid documentation. What part of it don't you understand?

I wonder how the Serbs in Serbia would have reacted to someone trying to literally smuggle in medicine that lacked proper documentation.

Every country has laws on licensing medical imports, there's no exception to Kosovo.

Ah, yeah...the racist attitude of a 'drug-trafficking mafia state'...we're all so used to that type of propaganda, it's become too comic...

Brian Chorley

pre 16 godina

UNMIK "defends human rights" by stealing medicines destined for sick people who are living in ghettos and terrorized by a mafia state led by drug trafickers, pimps, and murderers.

Where is the outrage from the NGOs and other CIA front groups that pretend like they care about human suffering? Where are all the KLA supporters on this website who always whine about the Serbs causing trouble?

Dragan

pre 16 godina

This is sick. I'm sure the Yanks and Germans are very proud of their obedient albanians, witholding insulin from diabetics. Sick, truly sick. The world I hope will wake up to these ethnic cleansing methods applied by the albanians.

bmrusila

pre 16 godina

Scum! Kosovo’s clerks exercise democracy and respect for human rights once again. But what else the one can expect in Thacistan!

lids

pre 16 godina

Thaci&co.just wanted Serbians in Kosovo to try their medicine that`s proven to work On Serbs.Laced with just a touch of opium of the best quality imported straight from avghanistan and cooked in ne country 'albanistan".

BKK

pre 16 godina

Grossest violation of human rights.
Getting a permission from an illegitimate drug trafficking and terrorist funding organization to supply sick with medicine.
What a dioscrease. This should be followed up by WHO and UN.

BKK

pre 16 godina

Grossest violation of human rights.
Getting a permission from an illegitimate drug trafficking and terrorist funding organization to supply sick with medicine.
What a dioscrease. This should be followed up by WHO and UN.

Dragan

pre 16 godina

This is sick. I'm sure the Yanks and Germans are very proud of their obedient albanians, witholding insulin from diabetics. Sick, truly sick. The world I hope will wake up to these ethnic cleansing methods applied by the albanians.

bmrusila

pre 16 godina

Scum! Kosovo’s clerks exercise democracy and respect for human rights once again. But what else the one can expect in Thacistan!

lids

pre 16 godina

Thaci&co.just wanted Serbians in Kosovo to try their medicine that`s proven to work On Serbs.Laced with just a touch of opium of the best quality imported straight from avghanistan and cooked in ne country 'albanistan".

Brian Chorley

pre 16 godina

UNMIK "defends human rights" by stealing medicines destined for sick people who are living in ghettos and terrorized by a mafia state led by drug trafickers, pimps, and murderers.

Where is the outrage from the NGOs and other CIA front groups that pretend like they care about human suffering? Where are all the KLA supporters on this website who always whine about the Serbs causing trouble?

Jovan

pre 16 godina

"Ah, yeah...the racist attitude of a 'drug-trafficking mafia state'...we're all so used to that type of propaganda, it's become too comic...
(C, 26 March 2008 20:05)"

dear "C"

even a german newspaper "FAZ" published an article on sunday , march 16th with the headline saying "crime does pay off" referring to Kosovo "where organized crime has now it´s own state"

so, when even the newspapers in Germany don´t deny it, why are you continuing to act/play the little white dove-part?

WHO for heavens sake do you think will believe you???

it´s obvious, and every single letter you write in the attempt to deny it is simply ridiculous!
keep that in mind, my dear "C"...when you decide to post another comment.

C

pre 16 godina

Guys, you must be out of your minds!! This is a country of laws and they need to be respected.

The rules are simple: stuff can't be imported from outside without valid documentation. What part of it don't you understand?

I wonder how the Serbs in Serbia would have reacted to someone trying to literally smuggle in medicine that lacked proper documentation.

Every country has laws on licensing medical imports, there's no exception to Kosovo.

Ah, yeah...the racist attitude of a 'drug-trafficking mafia state'...we're all so used to that type of propaganda, it's become too comic...

Jan Andersen, DK

pre 16 godina

Okay Serbs

On one hand you complain loudly and accuses Albanians (and by implication the Kosovars) for being the kings of illegal drug trading in the Balkans and Europe.

And now you complain when they actually try to impose some control, some demand for proper paperworks, before stuff are getting across the borders.

So what is it? Is it going to be a free-for-all-import, or a system where importers need to go through some red tape?

Penjack, USA

pre 16 godina

Jan Andersen, DK wrote, "And now you complain when they actually try to impose some control, some demand for proper paperworks, before stuff are getting across the borders."

Ah yes the "Paperworks"!
Does Hashim "the Snake" Thaci have the "paperworks" from the UN recognizing Kosovo as an independent country?
Where was the "paperworks" authorizing Albanian terrorist to remove organs from kidnapped Serbs?

Amazing that terrorist require "paperworks" to provide humanitarian aid to the sick.
The only "paperworks" KLA terrorist are familiar with is on a roll in the bathroom.

Ashley

pre 16 godina

The biggest form of human rights violation is the withholding of medical supplies for sick. This is absolutely disgusting on the part of the UN and EU but to be expected from the animal albanians. It is very ironic that the region has the biggest flow of illegal drug trafficking by the KLA mafia but they all of a sudden sanction legal medicinal drugs for the Serb population. The world has to wake up before the final stage of the albanian ethnic cleansing of the Serbs are completed.

Felix, Romania

pre 16 godina

I thought the UNMIK represented the UN. As the UN has not recognised Kosovo, I do not understand how they would recommend or impose the Kosovo Drug Agency (grim name really - probably the same arm of the KLA in charge with the strong stuff).

Is it that via UNMIK we are now beginning to see the true colours of the UN, in fact? It appears that they are lying about their policies and abusing a UN resolution.

Well, if they took the liberty to confiscate urgent medicine shipments, they are then responsible for supplying medicines to those in need. Or is it that now they are no longer interested in human rights and politics prevail?

I tell you, the way it looks... one day there will be retribuiton.

The Swiss

pre 16 godina

Ah, yeah...the racist attitude of a 'drug-trafficking mafia state'...we're all so used to that type of propaganda, it's become too comic...
(C, 26 March 2008 20:05)

Kosovo Drug Agency.. well, I hope there are not the same that approved the white powder traffic towards EU!!

Of course, this is only propaganda, made by The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)!

Am sure that all the relatives of people who died from it or are suffering from it wouldn't find your comment to comic!!

Nenad

pre 16 godina

Dear Jan Anderson,
As to your insistence that you are not Albanian, it does not matter whether you are or whether you are not.
What matters is whether you support ridiculous issues that prevent medical supplies going to sick people.
That makes you a rather unquie person doesn't it?
You are less of a person than those who want to hurt the Serbs because they are Albanian.
You should know better if you were truly independently minded.

Matthew

pre 16 godina

C,

Since everyone decided that recognizing Kosovo was up to individual states, and Serbia declined to do so, it is not bound by any laws of the Kosovo “government”. So countries that recognize Kosovo would have to abide by such rules, and those that don’t, need to follow the rules of Serbia. Its pretty simple really. That is the path the Albanians of Kosovo chose to take. If they didn’t want it to function that way, maybe they should have come to an agreement on partition instead of going for the whole pie. Now the world truly is in chaos and the rule of law is meaningless…

I suggest that Russia send her own EULEX style mission to Kosovo to help in aid distribution. Obviously, there is no requirement for UN approval for such actions anymore. The Serbs of Kosovo have been requesting such action. Essentially what we have is simply a war zone, and regardless of what side you take, we must all agree to let humanitarian aid reach opposing sides.

Peggy

pre 16 godina

While Kosovo Serbs are at the risk of dying, Thaci plays his sick game of politics.

Albanian posters here should be ashamed of themselves. Citing things like "proper paperwork" is very uncaring indeed when you have people's lives depending on this shipment of medicine.

But then again, since when was a Serbian life important to Albanians? All that's important are the organs for harvesting.

Peggy

pre 16 godina

Jan Anderson, why do you feel the need to provide us with the fact that you are not Albanian?

Does that somehow make you more credible? We all have opinions here and non Serbs back Serbs too. So what?

Are you that uncaring to actually excuse this horrible behaviour of blocking vital medicine with no paperwork bull?

Russia doesn't need permission from Kosovo since it doesn't recognise Kosovo as a state. US doesn't need permission from Serbia to ship arms to Kosovo since it does recognise Kosovo.

I think sending medicine is a lot more humane than guns. What's your opinion?

Jan Andersen, DK

pre 16 godina

On 27 March 2008, 02:47, Peggy wrote:

"Albanian posters here should be ashamed of themselves. Citing things like "proper paperwork" is very uncaring indeed when you have people's lives depending on this shipment of medicine."

And refusing to fill out some random papers because you don't recognize the government demanding those papers "... is very uncaring indeed when you have people's lives depending on this shipment of medicine."

PS: And I am not Albanian.

C

pre 16 godina

Matthew,

Okay, fair enough. You've seen what happens when you don't abide by the rules of the country in question. Let's play by the Serbian rules, and see where that take you. Seems like it has to be made abundantly clear that the rules of an independent country need to be respected. If you choose to ignore them, you can forget about delivery. Shame on those playing politics on the Serbian side - yet acting in the name of 'medical expediency.' I am sure the Kosovo Serbs need them, its a shame the Serbian Government wants to play politics here

odi

pre 16 godina

Guys , nobody is denying Kosovo Serbs to get their medicine, stop being ridiculous! There are Laws, everything entering Kosovo has to be reported to the authorities starting from bananas and chewing gums etc. The fact that your Government is too proud to get an authorisation at the border when knowing that these medicine will be blocked if you dont do so,just like in any other normal country, says enough!
Dont act as if you are in a New Found Land!

Matthew

pre 16 godina

“Seems like it has to be made abundantly clear that the rules of an independent country need to be respected. (C, 27 March 2008 17:24)”

C,

I absolutely agree with you.

However, I’m having a great deal of difficultly understanding the whole independence process here, maybe you can help me. Only a handful of countries have recognized Kosovo as independent. The UN has not. No major international organizations have.

Even the EU did not have the political will power to recognize Kosovo, only to reach a consensus that recognition is up to the individual states.

So what does that mean and how should that be defined in legal terms? How does it work?

You seem to be claiming that those who do not choose to recognize Kosovo as independent must still recognize and treat it as such. If so, then why wouldn’t the EU as a whole recognize Kosovo then? Why did not the UN vote on it? Do you not believe in democracy? Or do you only believe in democracy for rich western countries? Should the voices and needs of poorer less developed countries be ignored? I personally believe in Global Democracy and not for only those of us blessed enough to be born in a prosperous “modern” country.

Instead the EU choose to accept and expect that different countries could have different standards and different relations with Kosovo, its entirely up to each individual country to recognize Kosovo, if Kosovo is not “independent” by a particular countries standards, then it can not be bound by the rules of a country that does not exist legally in their judicial system, its impossible. That was the consensus reached by the EU as a whole and thus should be respected. Even the US Supreme Court recently affirmed that the laws of individual states are above international law and treaties, and thus it is not legally bound by such things as specifically the Geneva Convention (Duty to inform local embassy of arrest of one of their nationals). If US and EU law and agreements both support Serbia’s stand that it does not need abide by or respect the laws of the Kosovar government, how do you support a completely contradictory stance?

Seriously, what did you expect to happen going for independence this way?

Look, I deeply respect some of the Albanians here and I’m extremely sorry for the abuses they and their loved ones suffered. I’ve always supported a peaceful partition founded on a mutually agreed upon compromise. I’d even consider Presevo in exchange for some type of concessions towards our Historic sites which we consider to be the very cradle and foundation of our civilization.

Of course we are not going to recognize your government in the North, that clearly will always stay in Serbia, just as Serbia really could not control the Albanian parts. There’s just no way to force a population (either Albanian or Serbian) who have suffered some very horrible things under one another to live under the rule of the other without their consent. That much is obvious.

This will continue. Medical supplies should not be the topic of such obviously political disagreements. The ICJ needs to immediately rule on whether this is a war crime or a human right’s violation.

C

pre 16 godina

Guys, you must be out of your minds!! This is a country of laws and they need to be respected.

The rules are simple: stuff can't be imported from outside without valid documentation. What part of it don't you understand?

I wonder how the Serbs in Serbia would have reacted to someone trying to literally smuggle in medicine that lacked proper documentation.

Every country has laws on licensing medical imports, there's no exception to Kosovo.

Ah, yeah...the racist attitude of a 'drug-trafficking mafia state'...we're all so used to that type of propaganda, it's become too comic...

Jan Andersen, DK

pre 16 godina

On 27 March 2008, 02:47, Peggy wrote:

"Albanian posters here should be ashamed of themselves. Citing things like "proper paperwork" is very uncaring indeed when you have people's lives depending on this shipment of medicine."

And refusing to fill out some random papers because you don't recognize the government demanding those papers "... is very uncaring indeed when you have people's lives depending on this shipment of medicine."

PS: And I am not Albanian.

C

pre 16 godina

Matthew,

Okay, fair enough. You've seen what happens when you don't abide by the rules of the country in question. Let's play by the Serbian rules, and see where that take you. Seems like it has to be made abundantly clear that the rules of an independent country need to be respected. If you choose to ignore them, you can forget about delivery. Shame on those playing politics on the Serbian side - yet acting in the name of 'medical expediency.' I am sure the Kosovo Serbs need them, its a shame the Serbian Government wants to play politics here

BKK

pre 16 godina

Grossest violation of human rights.
Getting a permission from an illegitimate drug trafficking and terrorist funding organization to supply sick with medicine.
What a dioscrease. This should be followed up by WHO and UN.

lids

pre 16 godina

Thaci&co.just wanted Serbians in Kosovo to try their medicine that`s proven to work On Serbs.Laced with just a touch of opium of the best quality imported straight from avghanistan and cooked in ne country 'albanistan".

bmrusila

pre 16 godina

Scum! Kosovo’s clerks exercise democracy and respect for human rights once again. But what else the one can expect in Thacistan!

Dragan

pre 16 godina

This is sick. I'm sure the Yanks and Germans are very proud of their obedient albanians, witholding insulin from diabetics. Sick, truly sick. The world I hope will wake up to these ethnic cleansing methods applied by the albanians.

Penjack, USA

pre 16 godina

Jan Andersen, DK wrote, "And now you complain when they actually try to impose some control, some demand for proper paperworks, before stuff are getting across the borders."

Ah yes the "Paperworks"!
Does Hashim "the Snake" Thaci have the "paperworks" from the UN recognizing Kosovo as an independent country?
Where was the "paperworks" authorizing Albanian terrorist to remove organs from kidnapped Serbs?

Amazing that terrorist require "paperworks" to provide humanitarian aid to the sick.
The only "paperworks" KLA terrorist are familiar with is on a roll in the bathroom.

Jan Andersen, DK

pre 16 godina

Okay Serbs

On one hand you complain loudly and accuses Albanians (and by implication the Kosovars) for being the kings of illegal drug trading in the Balkans and Europe.

And now you complain when they actually try to impose some control, some demand for proper paperworks, before stuff are getting across the borders.

So what is it? Is it going to be a free-for-all-import, or a system where importers need to go through some red tape?

Brian Chorley

pre 16 godina

UNMIK "defends human rights" by stealing medicines destined for sick people who are living in ghettos and terrorized by a mafia state led by drug trafickers, pimps, and murderers.

Where is the outrage from the NGOs and other CIA front groups that pretend like they care about human suffering? Where are all the KLA supporters on this website who always whine about the Serbs causing trouble?

Jovan

pre 16 godina

"Ah, yeah...the racist attitude of a 'drug-trafficking mafia state'...we're all so used to that type of propaganda, it's become too comic...
(C, 26 March 2008 20:05)"

dear "C"

even a german newspaper "FAZ" published an article on sunday , march 16th with the headline saying "crime does pay off" referring to Kosovo "where organized crime has now it´s own state"

so, when even the newspapers in Germany don´t deny it, why are you continuing to act/play the little white dove-part?

WHO for heavens sake do you think will believe you???

it´s obvious, and every single letter you write in the attempt to deny it is simply ridiculous!
keep that in mind, my dear "C"...when you decide to post another comment.

The Swiss

pre 16 godina

Ah, yeah...the racist attitude of a 'drug-trafficking mafia state'...we're all so used to that type of propaganda, it's become too comic...
(C, 26 March 2008 20:05)

Kosovo Drug Agency.. well, I hope there are not the same that approved the white powder traffic towards EU!!

Of course, this is only propaganda, made by The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)!

Am sure that all the relatives of people who died from it or are suffering from it wouldn't find your comment to comic!!

Peggy

pre 16 godina

While Kosovo Serbs are at the risk of dying, Thaci plays his sick game of politics.

Albanian posters here should be ashamed of themselves. Citing things like "proper paperwork" is very uncaring indeed when you have people's lives depending on this shipment of medicine.

But then again, since when was a Serbian life important to Albanians? All that's important are the organs for harvesting.

Matthew

pre 16 godina

C,

Since everyone decided that recognizing Kosovo was up to individual states, and Serbia declined to do so, it is not bound by any laws of the Kosovo “government”. So countries that recognize Kosovo would have to abide by such rules, and those that don’t, need to follow the rules of Serbia. Its pretty simple really. That is the path the Albanians of Kosovo chose to take. If they didn’t want it to function that way, maybe they should have come to an agreement on partition instead of going for the whole pie. Now the world truly is in chaos and the rule of law is meaningless…

I suggest that Russia send her own EULEX style mission to Kosovo to help in aid distribution. Obviously, there is no requirement for UN approval for such actions anymore. The Serbs of Kosovo have been requesting such action. Essentially what we have is simply a war zone, and regardless of what side you take, we must all agree to let humanitarian aid reach opposing sides.

Ashley

pre 16 godina

The biggest form of human rights violation is the withholding of medical supplies for sick. This is absolutely disgusting on the part of the UN and EU but to be expected from the animal albanians. It is very ironic that the region has the biggest flow of illegal drug trafficking by the KLA mafia but they all of a sudden sanction legal medicinal drugs for the Serb population. The world has to wake up before the final stage of the albanian ethnic cleansing of the Serbs are completed.

Felix, Romania

pre 16 godina

I thought the UNMIK represented the UN. As the UN has not recognised Kosovo, I do not understand how they would recommend or impose the Kosovo Drug Agency (grim name really - probably the same arm of the KLA in charge with the strong stuff).

Is it that via UNMIK we are now beginning to see the true colours of the UN, in fact? It appears that they are lying about their policies and abusing a UN resolution.

Well, if they took the liberty to confiscate urgent medicine shipments, they are then responsible for supplying medicines to those in need. Or is it that now they are no longer interested in human rights and politics prevail?

I tell you, the way it looks... one day there will be retribuiton.

Nenad

pre 16 godina

Dear Jan Anderson,
As to your insistence that you are not Albanian, it does not matter whether you are or whether you are not.
What matters is whether you support ridiculous issues that prevent medical supplies going to sick people.
That makes you a rather unquie person doesn't it?
You are less of a person than those who want to hurt the Serbs because they are Albanian.
You should know better if you were truly independently minded.

Peggy

pre 16 godina

Jan Anderson, why do you feel the need to provide us with the fact that you are not Albanian?

Does that somehow make you more credible? We all have opinions here and non Serbs back Serbs too. So what?

Are you that uncaring to actually excuse this horrible behaviour of blocking vital medicine with no paperwork bull?

Russia doesn't need permission from Kosovo since it doesn't recognise Kosovo as a state. US doesn't need permission from Serbia to ship arms to Kosovo since it does recognise Kosovo.

I think sending medicine is a lot more humane than guns. What's your opinion?

odi

pre 16 godina

Guys , nobody is denying Kosovo Serbs to get their medicine, stop being ridiculous! There are Laws, everything entering Kosovo has to be reported to the authorities starting from bananas and chewing gums etc. The fact that your Government is too proud to get an authorisation at the border when knowing that these medicine will be blocked if you dont do so,just like in any other normal country, says enough!
Dont act as if you are in a New Found Land!

Matthew

pre 16 godina

“Seems like it has to be made abundantly clear that the rules of an independent country need to be respected. (C, 27 March 2008 17:24)”

C,

I absolutely agree with you.

However, I’m having a great deal of difficultly understanding the whole independence process here, maybe you can help me. Only a handful of countries have recognized Kosovo as independent. The UN has not. No major international organizations have.

Even the EU did not have the political will power to recognize Kosovo, only to reach a consensus that recognition is up to the individual states.

So what does that mean and how should that be defined in legal terms? How does it work?

You seem to be claiming that those who do not choose to recognize Kosovo as independent must still recognize and treat it as such. If so, then why wouldn’t the EU as a whole recognize Kosovo then? Why did not the UN vote on it? Do you not believe in democracy? Or do you only believe in democracy for rich western countries? Should the voices and needs of poorer less developed countries be ignored? I personally believe in Global Democracy and not for only those of us blessed enough to be born in a prosperous “modern” country.

Instead the EU choose to accept and expect that different countries could have different standards and different relations with Kosovo, its entirely up to each individual country to recognize Kosovo, if Kosovo is not “independent” by a particular countries standards, then it can not be bound by the rules of a country that does not exist legally in their judicial system, its impossible. That was the consensus reached by the EU as a whole and thus should be respected. Even the US Supreme Court recently affirmed that the laws of individual states are above international law and treaties, and thus it is not legally bound by such things as specifically the Geneva Convention (Duty to inform local embassy of arrest of one of their nationals). If US and EU law and agreements both support Serbia’s stand that it does not need abide by or respect the laws of the Kosovar government, how do you support a completely contradictory stance?

Seriously, what did you expect to happen going for independence this way?

Look, I deeply respect some of the Albanians here and I’m extremely sorry for the abuses they and their loved ones suffered. I’ve always supported a peaceful partition founded on a mutually agreed upon compromise. I’d even consider Presevo in exchange for some type of concessions towards our Historic sites which we consider to be the very cradle and foundation of our civilization.

Of course we are not going to recognize your government in the North, that clearly will always stay in Serbia, just as Serbia really could not control the Albanian parts. There’s just no way to force a population (either Albanian or Serbian) who have suffered some very horrible things under one another to live under the rule of the other without their consent. That much is obvious.

This will continue. Medical supplies should not be the topic of such obviously political disagreements. The ICJ needs to immediately rule on whether this is a war crime or a human right’s violation.