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Wednesday, 23.04.2008.

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U.S. against Serbian elections in Kosovo

The U.S. opposes Serbian local elections being held in Kosovo on May 11, says State Department spokesman Tom Casey.

Izvor: Tanjug

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Peggy

pre 16 godina

Mr. D.J. Jones, surprise, surprise, Serbia did not break resolution 1244. It was already broken by the US.

Where have you been all this time? Did you just notice that res 1244 is broken?

Once you break something you can't blame others for trying to make the pieces fit.

italy

pre 16 godina

Instead of using Kosovo for idle internal political quarrels, I hope official Serbia will give more proofs against Haradinaj so that the Prosecutor in the Hague could restart the process against him. I really hope Serbia will start doing serious things instead of skirmishing with uncivilised American and European bureaucrats, whom you see today speaking and tomorrow somoene sends them to their home and replaces with another parrott. I hope I will soon read the news that Haradinaj has been sentenced to 30 year in jail. I further hope that Serbian Secret Services will open files and give them to the Hague and demonstrate that Allbrights and Hollbrooke's "sons" were a terrorist organisation that had managed to promote themselves as "fighters for freedom." I also hope Serbia will find Mladic even if American administration does not want him to go to the Hague. I am sure he is on american territory protected by their immunity. Only serious work can elevate Serbia to respond with pride to the parrots giving press realases in Washington and Brussels. It is the high time to start working on serious issues in order to have positive results.

Jan (Amsterdam)

pre 16 godina

Just ignore what the falling empire is saying. Please check out the following link.

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4684540

The US constitution is allowing the Mexican drugs maffia to get powerful guns to run the place (hereby unwillingly undermining the Mexican territorial integrity because the Mexican government kind of lost control) and then the Mexican drugs are destroying American youngsters, families, communities and eventually the country. It is all so very ironic and a deja vu comes to my mind. The US and the EU supported the Kosovo drugs maffia with arms to create a smuggling safe haven and those drugs will destroy so many lives in Europe. Upholding an outdated constitution seems more important (also for $$$) than imposing stricter rules that could save many lives. In this respect the US seems to me more like a banana republic and so any comment on Serbian elections in Kosovo can be ignored and the silly person making these comments should be petted on the head and told that silly little boys should keep their mouths shut. Unfortunately Hillary Clinton still has a chance and that means that Richard Holbrooke could become the next Secretary of State (and so another four to eight years of anti-Serbian hate policies will be ahead). Serbia will eventually survive it all, but Europe should finally reverse things and choose for European stability and fairness.

adrian, timisoara, romania

pre 16 godina

I don`t understand the entire discussion alout those local elections. Since UNMIK won`t recognize the results, they are useless anyway.

Sergei

pre 16 godina

“We expect the Serbian government to limit its electoral activities to Serbia.” No problem; that is exactly what the Serbian government is doing by staging elections in its southern province. Pretending Kosovo is independent is not going to make it so.

Duh

pre 16 godina

I really don't understand what the big deal is whether they vote or don't vote in a serbian election. After all if someone is not happy with the results they just dissolve the govt and call new elections. What a joke.

peter, sydney

pre 16 godina

Wonder what their 'founding fathers' would make of Tom Casey & his cronies in Washington.

They have been meddling in elections in Serbia attempting to impose the outcomes they desire.

They are denying the basic right to vote to serbs in Kosovo on the basis that these people are no longer a part of Serbia. Yet these people have never agreed to the loss of their citizenship, let alone to their inclusion in the entity known as 'the republic of Kosovo'.

You should be ashamed of youself Mr Casey.

And all citizens of the US should be ashamed of the actions of their government.

The serbs of Kosovo will indeed vote, as is their right.

You are welcome to watch Mr Casey. Perhaps you may then understand what democracy really means.

Is readily apparent you currently have no idea.

Jovan

pre 16 godina

well, then the US will have to swallow a bitter pill!

Mr.Casey, you should better take care about Aztlan... :)

if even swedish vodka-producers use certain "inevitable developments" for their advertisments... you should rather take care of your own country...

Dragan

pre 16 godina

Again, Serbs DON'T CARE what this vehemently anti-Serb US administration has to say. In fact, whatever they say, we will most likely do the opposite.
We are holding elections, just watch us.
Cheers!

tim

pre 16 godina

What is the US going to do? Tell the UN their mandate is over, kick the UN out? Bomb the Serbs? Send in death squads? Put Serbs in a concenttration camp? Oh, wait, they already are surrounded in barbed wire and armed guards.

Mr. D. J. Jones

pre 16 godina

Surprise, Surprise!!!

.......And we believe that the Kosovo authorities are those that are responsible for calling and holding elections in Kosovo,“ Casey told a press conference.....

So what happened to the United Nations in this i.e. UNSC Resolution 1244?

Seems only serbia can break this resolution....

Hypocrites

european

pre 16 godina

The hypocrisy is with those who try to forget that 1244 does not exist to reaffirm Serbia's territorial integrity but to REMOVE Serbia's jurisdiction over Kosovo!

Serbia has no right to interfere in Kosovo except when and where it is invited to do so by UNMIK. UNMIK has sole authority to organise elections in Kosovo and this expressly WITH the kosovo authorities as the aim of 1244 is to guide Kosovo and its authorities towards the capacity to run their own affairs.

Whether those affairs should be run as autonomous part of Serbia or as an independent state was left to a future status resolution process - one that has so far found no bilateral solution.

Peggy

pre 16 godina

And Serbia opposes your meddling too. Who made you judge, jury and executioner?

Kindly take care of your own domestic issues instead of always butting into other people's affairs. You have more than enough misery in America to fix so go and do that.

Resolution 1244 is in force not you.

Agon

pre 16 godina

why does not serbia keep election in macedonia montenegro or croatia??
tadic should keep his country away from kosovo.enough serbia tryed to destabilish kosovo future.leave kosovo alone,we dont need to be part of serbian problems
hands away from kosovo
long live freedom

Princip, UK

pre 16 godina

Who's listening to the US anymore when they have so discredited themselves by illegally recognising the unlateral declaration of NATO dependence of the Serbian citizens of Albanian ethnicity in what remains UN recognised Serbian soverign territory!!!

What can the US do - send in their marines to stop people using their democratic right to vote in Serbian elections throughout Soverign Serbia???

I guess that US phrase goes well in this circumstance

- "talk to the hand" because the Serbs are not listening!

Oh what a tangled web we weave...

kufr

pre 16 godina

It's remarkable how much energy some countries put into trying to stop democratic elections i Serbia. The countries trying to impede democracy are of course the same countries who violated resolution 1244 by recognizing the semi-independent Kosovo in the first place. By doing so they forfeited their right to meddle in Serbias internal business and their words means nothing.

Dragan

pre 16 godina

Again, Serbs DON'T CARE what this vehemently anti-Serb US administration has to say. In fact, whatever they say, we will most likely do the opposite.
We are holding elections, just watch us.
Cheers!

tim

pre 16 godina

What is the US going to do? Tell the UN their mandate is over, kick the UN out? Bomb the Serbs? Send in death squads? Put Serbs in a concenttration camp? Oh, wait, they already are surrounded in barbed wire and armed guards.

Mr. D. J. Jones

pre 16 godina

Surprise, Surprise!!!

.......And we believe that the Kosovo authorities are those that are responsible for calling and holding elections in Kosovo,“ Casey told a press conference.....

So what happened to the United Nations in this i.e. UNSC Resolution 1244?

Seems only serbia can break this resolution....

Hypocrites

Jovan

pre 16 godina

well, then the US will have to swallow a bitter pill!

Mr.Casey, you should better take care about Aztlan... :)

if even swedish vodka-producers use certain "inevitable developments" for their advertisments... you should rather take care of your own country...

peter, sydney

pre 16 godina

Wonder what their 'founding fathers' would make of Tom Casey & his cronies in Washington.

They have been meddling in elections in Serbia attempting to impose the outcomes they desire.

They are denying the basic right to vote to serbs in Kosovo on the basis that these people are no longer a part of Serbia. Yet these people have never agreed to the loss of their citizenship, let alone to their inclusion in the entity known as 'the republic of Kosovo'.

You should be ashamed of youself Mr Casey.

And all citizens of the US should be ashamed of the actions of their government.

The serbs of Kosovo will indeed vote, as is their right.

You are welcome to watch Mr Casey. Perhaps you may then understand what democracy really means.

Is readily apparent you currently have no idea.

kufr

pre 16 godina

It's remarkable how much energy some countries put into trying to stop democratic elections i Serbia. The countries trying to impede democracy are of course the same countries who violated resolution 1244 by recognizing the semi-independent Kosovo in the first place. By doing so they forfeited their right to meddle in Serbias internal business and their words means nothing.

Princip, UK

pre 16 godina

Who's listening to the US anymore when they have so discredited themselves by illegally recognising the unlateral declaration of NATO dependence of the Serbian citizens of Albanian ethnicity in what remains UN recognised Serbian soverign territory!!!

What can the US do - send in their marines to stop people using their democratic right to vote in Serbian elections throughout Soverign Serbia???

I guess that US phrase goes well in this circumstance

- "talk to the hand" because the Serbs are not listening!

Oh what a tangled web we weave...

Peggy

pre 16 godina

And Serbia opposes your meddling too. Who made you judge, jury and executioner?

Kindly take care of your own domestic issues instead of always butting into other people's affairs. You have more than enough misery in America to fix so go and do that.

Resolution 1244 is in force not you.

Sergei

pre 16 godina

“We expect the Serbian government to limit its electoral activities to Serbia.” No problem; that is exactly what the Serbian government is doing by staging elections in its southern province. Pretending Kosovo is independent is not going to make it so.

Agon

pre 16 godina

why does not serbia keep election in macedonia montenegro or croatia??
tadic should keep his country away from kosovo.enough serbia tryed to destabilish kosovo future.leave kosovo alone,we dont need to be part of serbian problems
hands away from kosovo
long live freedom

Jan (Amsterdam)

pre 16 godina

Just ignore what the falling empire is saying. Please check out the following link.

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4684540

The US constitution is allowing the Mexican drugs maffia to get powerful guns to run the place (hereby unwillingly undermining the Mexican territorial integrity because the Mexican government kind of lost control) and then the Mexican drugs are destroying American youngsters, families, communities and eventually the country. It is all so very ironic and a deja vu comes to my mind. The US and the EU supported the Kosovo drugs maffia with arms to create a smuggling safe haven and those drugs will destroy so many lives in Europe. Upholding an outdated constitution seems more important (also for $$$) than imposing stricter rules that could save many lives. In this respect the US seems to me more like a banana republic and so any comment on Serbian elections in Kosovo can be ignored and the silly person making these comments should be petted on the head and told that silly little boys should keep their mouths shut. Unfortunately Hillary Clinton still has a chance and that means that Richard Holbrooke could become the next Secretary of State (and so another four to eight years of anti-Serbian hate policies will be ahead). Serbia will eventually survive it all, but Europe should finally reverse things and choose for European stability and fairness.

italy

pre 16 godina

Instead of using Kosovo for idle internal political quarrels, I hope official Serbia will give more proofs against Haradinaj so that the Prosecutor in the Hague could restart the process against him. I really hope Serbia will start doing serious things instead of skirmishing with uncivilised American and European bureaucrats, whom you see today speaking and tomorrow somoene sends them to their home and replaces with another parrott. I hope I will soon read the news that Haradinaj has been sentenced to 30 year in jail. I further hope that Serbian Secret Services will open files and give them to the Hague and demonstrate that Allbrights and Hollbrooke's "sons" were a terrorist organisation that had managed to promote themselves as "fighters for freedom." I also hope Serbia will find Mladic even if American administration does not want him to go to the Hague. I am sure he is on american territory protected by their immunity. Only serious work can elevate Serbia to respond with pride to the parrots giving press realases in Washington and Brussels. It is the high time to start working on serious issues in order to have positive results.

european

pre 16 godina

The hypocrisy is with those who try to forget that 1244 does not exist to reaffirm Serbia's territorial integrity but to REMOVE Serbia's jurisdiction over Kosovo!

Serbia has no right to interfere in Kosovo except when and where it is invited to do so by UNMIK. UNMIK has sole authority to organise elections in Kosovo and this expressly WITH the kosovo authorities as the aim of 1244 is to guide Kosovo and its authorities towards the capacity to run their own affairs.

Whether those affairs should be run as autonomous part of Serbia or as an independent state was left to a future status resolution process - one that has so far found no bilateral solution.

Peggy

pre 16 godina

Mr. D.J. Jones, surprise, surprise, Serbia did not break resolution 1244. It was already broken by the US.

Where have you been all this time? Did you just notice that res 1244 is broken?

Once you break something you can't blame others for trying to make the pieces fit.

Duh

pre 16 godina

I really don't understand what the big deal is whether they vote or don't vote in a serbian election. After all if someone is not happy with the results they just dissolve the govt and call new elections. What a joke.

adrian, timisoara, romania

pre 16 godina

I don`t understand the entire discussion alout those local elections. Since UNMIK won`t recognize the results, they are useless anyway.

Agon

pre 16 godina

why does not serbia keep election in macedonia montenegro or croatia??
tadic should keep his country away from kosovo.enough serbia tryed to destabilish kosovo future.leave kosovo alone,we dont need to be part of serbian problems
hands away from kosovo
long live freedom

european

pre 16 godina

The hypocrisy is with those who try to forget that 1244 does not exist to reaffirm Serbia's territorial integrity but to REMOVE Serbia's jurisdiction over Kosovo!

Serbia has no right to interfere in Kosovo except when and where it is invited to do so by UNMIK. UNMIK has sole authority to organise elections in Kosovo and this expressly WITH the kosovo authorities as the aim of 1244 is to guide Kosovo and its authorities towards the capacity to run their own affairs.

Whether those affairs should be run as autonomous part of Serbia or as an independent state was left to a future status resolution process - one that has so far found no bilateral solution.

adrian, timisoara, romania

pre 16 godina

I don`t understand the entire discussion alout those local elections. Since UNMIK won`t recognize the results, they are useless anyway.

Duh

pre 16 godina

I really don't understand what the big deal is whether they vote or don't vote in a serbian election. After all if someone is not happy with the results they just dissolve the govt and call new elections. What a joke.

kufr

pre 16 godina

It's remarkable how much energy some countries put into trying to stop democratic elections i Serbia. The countries trying to impede democracy are of course the same countries who violated resolution 1244 by recognizing the semi-independent Kosovo in the first place. By doing so they forfeited their right to meddle in Serbias internal business and their words means nothing.

Princip, UK

pre 16 godina

Who's listening to the US anymore when they have so discredited themselves by illegally recognising the unlateral declaration of NATO dependence of the Serbian citizens of Albanian ethnicity in what remains UN recognised Serbian soverign territory!!!

What can the US do - send in their marines to stop people using their democratic right to vote in Serbian elections throughout Soverign Serbia???

I guess that US phrase goes well in this circumstance

- "talk to the hand" because the Serbs are not listening!

Oh what a tangled web we weave...

Peggy

pre 16 godina

And Serbia opposes your meddling too. Who made you judge, jury and executioner?

Kindly take care of your own domestic issues instead of always butting into other people's affairs. You have more than enough misery in America to fix so go and do that.

Resolution 1244 is in force not you.

Mr. D. J. Jones

pre 16 godina

Surprise, Surprise!!!

.......And we believe that the Kosovo authorities are those that are responsible for calling and holding elections in Kosovo,“ Casey told a press conference.....

So what happened to the United Nations in this i.e. UNSC Resolution 1244?

Seems only serbia can break this resolution....

Hypocrites

Dragan

pre 16 godina

Again, Serbs DON'T CARE what this vehemently anti-Serb US administration has to say. In fact, whatever they say, we will most likely do the opposite.
We are holding elections, just watch us.
Cheers!

tim

pre 16 godina

What is the US going to do? Tell the UN their mandate is over, kick the UN out? Bomb the Serbs? Send in death squads? Put Serbs in a concenttration camp? Oh, wait, they already are surrounded in barbed wire and armed guards.

Jovan

pre 16 godina

well, then the US will have to swallow a bitter pill!

Mr.Casey, you should better take care about Aztlan... :)

if even swedish vodka-producers use certain "inevitable developments" for their advertisments... you should rather take care of your own country...

peter, sydney

pre 16 godina

Wonder what their 'founding fathers' would make of Tom Casey & his cronies in Washington.

They have been meddling in elections in Serbia attempting to impose the outcomes they desire.

They are denying the basic right to vote to serbs in Kosovo on the basis that these people are no longer a part of Serbia. Yet these people have never agreed to the loss of their citizenship, let alone to their inclusion in the entity known as 'the republic of Kosovo'.

You should be ashamed of youself Mr Casey.

And all citizens of the US should be ashamed of the actions of their government.

The serbs of Kosovo will indeed vote, as is their right.

You are welcome to watch Mr Casey. Perhaps you may then understand what democracy really means.

Is readily apparent you currently have no idea.

Sergei

pre 16 godina

“We expect the Serbian government to limit its electoral activities to Serbia.” No problem; that is exactly what the Serbian government is doing by staging elections in its southern province. Pretending Kosovo is independent is not going to make it so.

Jan (Amsterdam)

pre 16 godina

Just ignore what the falling empire is saying. Please check out the following link.

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4684540

The US constitution is allowing the Mexican drugs maffia to get powerful guns to run the place (hereby unwillingly undermining the Mexican territorial integrity because the Mexican government kind of lost control) and then the Mexican drugs are destroying American youngsters, families, communities and eventually the country. It is all so very ironic and a deja vu comes to my mind. The US and the EU supported the Kosovo drugs maffia with arms to create a smuggling safe haven and those drugs will destroy so many lives in Europe. Upholding an outdated constitution seems more important (also for $$$) than imposing stricter rules that could save many lives. In this respect the US seems to me more like a banana republic and so any comment on Serbian elections in Kosovo can be ignored and the silly person making these comments should be petted on the head and told that silly little boys should keep their mouths shut. Unfortunately Hillary Clinton still has a chance and that means that Richard Holbrooke could become the next Secretary of State (and so another four to eight years of anti-Serbian hate policies will be ahead). Serbia will eventually survive it all, but Europe should finally reverse things and choose for European stability and fairness.

italy

pre 16 godina

Instead of using Kosovo for idle internal political quarrels, I hope official Serbia will give more proofs against Haradinaj so that the Prosecutor in the Hague could restart the process against him. I really hope Serbia will start doing serious things instead of skirmishing with uncivilised American and European bureaucrats, whom you see today speaking and tomorrow somoene sends them to their home and replaces with another parrott. I hope I will soon read the news that Haradinaj has been sentenced to 30 year in jail. I further hope that Serbian Secret Services will open files and give them to the Hague and demonstrate that Allbrights and Hollbrooke's "sons" were a terrorist organisation that had managed to promote themselves as "fighters for freedom." I also hope Serbia will find Mladic even if American administration does not want him to go to the Hague. I am sure he is on american territory protected by their immunity. Only serious work can elevate Serbia to respond with pride to the parrots giving press realases in Washington and Brussels. It is the high time to start working on serious issues in order to have positive results.

Peggy

pre 16 godina

Mr. D.J. Jones, surprise, surprise, Serbia did not break resolution 1244. It was already broken by the US.

Where have you been all this time? Did you just notice that res 1244 is broken?

Once you break something you can't blame others for trying to make the pieces fit.