Wim Roffel
pre 15 godina
I recently saw Joost Lagendijk on some symposium. He is another Europarlementarian that is involved with the Balkan and he spoke there mainly on Kosovo. He sounded very much like the Europarlementarians mentioned in this and other B92 articles on the recent EP incident. I found him very partial. But when pressed it appeared that he knew very little about the subject. It looked like he was mainly repeating American propaganda.
Three of his main arguments were:
- "Serbia has taken no initiative until the Ahtisaari Plan." This is definitely wrong. Serb ministers and officials made informal proposals as early as 2000. But UNMIK refused to talk about Kosovo's future before it had the situation there better under control.
- the "reality" argument: Kosovo's independence is now the reality and by denying it Serbia is only hurting itself. This was also the argument used by Czechia for its recent recognition of Kosovo.This is more rethorics than a real argument.
- related to this is the "big powers" argument that says that it is the big powers that determine what happens in the world and that they have chosen to support Kosovo's independence. This ignores that both that the power of the US is not absolute and that unlike the era of the Berlin conferences we now have welldeveloped international law.
Replacing Kacin will not solve the problem that the culture in the EP section involved in the Balkans is very anti-Serb. Instead I think Serbia should focus on getting more representatives sympathic to its case involved in the EP's Balkan politcs and that it should pay attention at educating them (lobbying?). The arguments in the EP in favor of Kosovo's independence are not strong, but someone needs to say that the emperor has no clothes.
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