Feith: EULEX will take over from UNMIK

Dark side of the (Ban Ki) Moon.

The arrogance of Feith is beyond belief. He demands self determination for the Albanians supporting them and consequently breaking all international laws but the Serbs are not allowed any such 'democratic' rights. They are not allowed to express their views. Feith wants the Serbs to remain in Kosovo since he can potray it as a 'success' for a 'multi-ethnic' Kosovo but will no doubt try and aggitate the Serbs in order to go in to 'restore' order!!! He would not want too many Serbs there- just enough to bring out now and again to perpetuate the lie that everything is now wonderful!! Many of us in Europe are seeing through their lies. Ireland may save us all with their no vote to the Lisbon treaty , Russia and China will hopefully save the Serbs from both the EU and subjection by the Albanians. Good luck Serbia you will win in the end!!!

If this is an imposed 'political settlement' then at some stage soon 1244 is over - and Serbia can re-enter Kosovo quite legally.

In my reading of 1244, once there is a 'political settlement' 1244 can be taken as being at an end. Obviously if it is an imposed settlement it can be legally resisted as part of Serbia's right of self defence. NATO will have no legal right to remain as long as Serbia acts within the law.

Serbia should not join the EU while the EU is imposing itself within the Serbian province of Kosovo; there is no legal justification for the policy the EU is imposing and it is against the expressed will of Serbia.

How can the EU wind itself up into such an illegal load of foolishness in direct contravention of the wishes of the democratic will of democratic Serbia?

EULEX is illegal if it infringes Serbia's territorial integrity and for any Serb to comply with it is treasonous.

The EU would have looked much more competent if they had supported a solution that had Serbia on-side. Instead they have created a problem that will not go away, and destroyed (for the time being at least) the possibility of agreement.

This is a reason why the EU should never have an army - they will give up negotiation (the real basis of the EU) for force (the basis on which the US is getting itself into lots of messes).

The Irish vote is more than a warning - the EU risks losing support because of its high-handed anti-democratic structure. The attitude to Kosovo is a prime example of where the EU is gradually going badly wrong.

EA, 15 June 2008 12:53

"Russia and China has got a lot to do in their own countries. Kosova is an EU issue and EU is the main sponsor in Kosova's democratic developement"

How could you put so much nonsece in quite few words ?

1. Both Russia and China are offenced with what is happening in KosovO for both of them are multinational countries interested to locate and treat the disease where it was first found.

2. In the circumstances Russia cannot afford retreating over KosovO unless the Serbs themselves stop the resistance for Russian view have also been ignored. All wars against Russia start different while as you know they are finished the same way.

3. KosovO has nothing to do with EU. The only things that connect you are the traffic and stolen cars. Not only you have no chances to join EU during the 50 years to come but the existence of the Union in it's current form is now problematic.

4. As for "democratic developement" you sound insane for mass murderers cannot be democrats. Besides EU have such a democracy that they fear to ask their own nations of the vital choices they have to take. From this point of view only Ireland and Swithzerland have something to be proud of.

5. You Albanians have done a wrong initial stake on the loosing side and they force you to make new mistakes to encorner you and leave you alone with the Serbs. So isn't it time for you to stop ?

"parallelism of authority in Kosovo will not be tolerated".

Dangerous words for an equally dangerous situation, how far is he prepared to go?
He fails to say if this will be acheived by force??? But yet again is this just bravado and empty words on the part of the wanabe feith. he's good at telling the K alabanians what they want to hear!!!
Cart before the horse syndrome me thinks!!!!

What authority has Mr Feith to say such things ? Arrogance personified!

In Ireland we term such people 'chancers' - they will chance anything to see if they can get away with it.

Well, sorry, no such luck here.

David Crowley

THIS IS RUBBISH! You cannot have a multi-ethnic demographic if members of the KLA have control - Dream on.

LOOK AT ALBANIA - MULTI ETHNIC????

DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!

Pieter Feith Try to enforce EULEX in kosovo province without UNSC approval. Let see if you have the "guts" to do it. I'm sure the russians and the chinese are looking at you.

Russia and China has got a lot to do in their own countries. Kosova is an EU issue and EU is the main sponsor in Kosova's democratic developement. If the newly configurated mission becomes a hindrance for Kosova government to exert its authority in the whole Kosova then UMNIK will have to face itself being marginalised and talk to itself.
(EA, 15 June 2008 12:53)

There was me stupidly thinking all this mess was orchestrated by the USA with a little help from 'some' puppets in the EU. The EU has clearly shown they are not mature enough politically to deal with this issue. Certain member states have matured enough but ultimately it comes down to the permanent members of UNSC of which Russia and China will always veto.

One cannot force compliance. Attempts to force people to do things they don't want to do is always a bad idea and never ends well. Serbs will not join the eu government and will continue to rule themselves. If you doubt me, just look at Bosnia. Have the Bosnian Serbs joined Bosnia all these years later? NOpe.

This was the same guy who boasted recently that Eulex will supplant UNMIK entirely on June 15th. Well what date is today?

More hot air now from this guy about Eulex "eventually" taking over from UNMIK, a climbdown couched in attempted face-saving language if you ask me. "Eventually" likely means he won't see its fruition in the north during his tenure, most likely never at all. All this bravedo from Eulex means nothing when, at the end of the day, they meekly agreed to be under UN's umbrella.

Russia and China has got a lot to do in their own countries. Kosova is an EU issue and EU is the main sponsor in Kosova's democratic developement. If the newly configurated mission becomes a hindrance for Kosova government to exert its authority in the whole Kosova then UMNIK will have to face itself being marginalised and talk to itself.

The circus has come to Pristina today and Pinocchio is the guest star.

You can be sure that all of this talk is for Albanian entertainment and that Serbians will have nothing to do with it. It will only strengthen the defacto partition, isolate the Albanians and split Kosovo deeper.

I suspect that UNMIK may become redundant one day but that will translate into Belgrade having full control of areas that are loyal to Serbia - in line with the more than autonomy but less than independence offer.

It is self-fulfilling.

We are glad they have 'promoted' Feith as head of EULEX, now we are rid off him :D

The netherlands uses european posts as an 'promotion' to get rid off unwanted nitwits in our own politics.

I challenge him to stand up in front of a group of Kosovo Serbs in North Mitrovica and say this.

"...because we have a multi-ethnic Kosovo based on the Ahtisaari document,"

this 'argument' sums it up:
BECAUSE 'WE' 'HAVE' 'MULTI-ETNHIC' 'BASED ON' 'AHTISAARI DOCUMENT"

all phony, contraversial, one-sided, unbridled, unlawful and beaurocratic notions out of touch with common sense and should I dare to say; with the will of the Serbian people and those who support them.

Let me comment on this one person who said that kosovo is an EU issue. In the first place my friend the EU has NO business in interfering in the balkans since Serbia is NOT a member of the EU. The EU's obvious support for this so called kosovo statehood is a clear violation on the sovereighty of a UN member state and a clear INVASION / COLONIZATION. AND IT'S CLEAR THAT THE UNSC HAS THE MORAL AUTHORITY TO RESOLVE THIS KOSOVO PROVINCE ISSUE ALONE.

"parallelism of authority in Kosovo will not be tolerated".

I wonder what he is going to do about it. He really is arrogant, isn't he, yet he has no authority in Kosovo at all, at least not with the Serbian side. Does he suggest military intervention if he doesn't get his way, or what?

SOmehow I think this EULEX mission will be a failure.

EA, according to you Russia and China have no business in Kosovo as they have their own problems at home.

Let me tell you that nobody has more problems at home than the US and yet they seem to stick their nose into evryone else's business all the time.

How about you tell Mr Bush to go and sort Ameria's domestic issues first before he starts trampling all over Serbia?

In any case I don't think that eithher Russi or China will take your advice so save it.
Why is it that the Albanian side always says the same thing like Russia should fix their domestic problems first? Is there no other argument against them getting invovled? If that's all you can say then you certainly have a very weak arguemnt.

The UK has more roblems than they can poke a stick at. France as well. Maybe they should all just mind their own business as they haven't claned up their own mess first. Will you support me in this argument as it seems as sane to me as yours is?

Russia and China has got a lot to do in their own countries. Kosova is an EU issue and EU is the main sponsor in Kosova's democratic developement. If the newly configurated mission becomes a hindrance for Kosova government to exert its authority in the whole Kosova then UMNIK will have to face itself being marginalised and talk to itself.

One cannot force compliance. Attempts to force people to do things they don't want to do is always a bad idea and never ends well. Serbs will not join the eu government and will continue to rule themselves. If you doubt me, just look at Bosnia. Have the Bosnian Serbs joined Bosnia all these years later? NOpe.

"parallelism of authority in Kosovo will not be tolerated".

Dangerous words for an equally dangerous situation, how far is he prepared to go?
He fails to say if this will be acheived by force??? But yet again is this just bravado and empty words on the part of the wanabe feith. he's good at telling the K alabanians what they want to hear!!!
Cart before the horse syndrome me thinks!!!!

We are glad they have 'promoted' Feith as head of EULEX, now we are rid off him :D

The netherlands uses european posts as an 'promotion' to get rid off unwanted nitwits in our own politics.

Dark side of the (Ban Ki) Moon.

Pieter Feith Try to enforce EULEX in kosovo province without UNSC approval. Let see if you have the "guts" to do it. I'm sure the russians and the chinese are looking at you.

This was the same guy who boasted recently that Eulex will supplant UNMIK entirely on June 15th. Well what date is today?

More hot air now from this guy about Eulex "eventually" taking over from UNMIK, a climbdown couched in attempted face-saving language if you ask me. "Eventually" likely means he won't see its fruition in the north during his tenure, most likely never at all. All this bravedo from Eulex means nothing when, at the end of the day, they meekly agreed to be under UN's umbrella.

THIS IS RUBBISH! You cannot have a multi-ethnic demographic if members of the KLA have control - Dream on.

LOOK AT ALBANIA - MULTI ETHNIC????

DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!

The circus has come to Pristina today and Pinocchio is the guest star.

You can be sure that all of this talk is for Albanian entertainment and that Serbians will have nothing to do with it. It will only strengthen the defacto partition, isolate the Albanians and split Kosovo deeper.

I suspect that UNMIK may become redundant one day but that will translate into Belgrade having full control of areas that are loyal to Serbia - in line with the more than autonomy but less than independence offer.

It is self-fulfilling.

The arrogance of Feith is beyond belief. He demands self determination for the Albanians supporting them and consequently breaking all international laws but the Serbs are not allowed any such 'democratic' rights. They are not allowed to express their views. Feith wants the Serbs to remain in Kosovo since he can potray it as a 'success' for a 'multi-ethnic' Kosovo but will no doubt try and aggitate the Serbs in order to go in to 'restore' order!!! He would not want too many Serbs there- just enough to bring out now and again to perpetuate the lie that everything is now wonderful!! Many of us in Europe are seeing through their lies. Ireland may save us all with their no vote to the Lisbon treaty , Russia and China will hopefully save the Serbs from both the EU and subjection by the Albanians. Good luck Serbia you will win in the end!!!

If this is an imposed 'political settlement' then at some stage soon 1244 is over - and Serbia can re-enter Kosovo quite legally.

In my reading of 1244, once there is a 'political settlement' 1244 can be taken as being at an end. Obviously if it is an imposed settlement it can be legally resisted as part of Serbia's right of self defence. NATO will have no legal right to remain as long as Serbia acts within the law.

Serbia should not join the EU while the EU is imposing itself within the Serbian province of Kosovo; there is no legal justification for the policy the EU is imposing and it is against the expressed will of Serbia.

How can the EU wind itself up into such an illegal load of foolishness in direct contravention of the wishes of the democratic will of democratic Serbia?

EULEX is illegal if it infringes Serbia's territorial integrity and for any Serb to comply with it is treasonous.

The EU would have looked much more competent if they had supported a solution that had Serbia on-side. Instead they have created a problem that will not go away, and destroyed (for the time being at least) the possibility of agreement.

This is a reason why the EU should never have an army - they will give up negotiation (the real basis of the EU) for force (the basis on which the US is getting itself into lots of messes).

The Irish vote is more than a warning - the EU risks losing support because of its high-handed anti-democratic structure. The attitude to Kosovo is a prime example of where the EU is gradually going badly wrong.

Russia and China has got a lot to do in their own countries. Kosova is an EU issue and EU is the main sponsor in Kosova's democratic developement. If the newly configurated mission becomes a hindrance for Kosova government to exert its authority in the whole Kosova then UMNIK will have to face itself being marginalised and talk to itself.
(EA, 15 June 2008 12:53)

There was me stupidly thinking all this mess was orchestrated by the USA with a little help from 'some' puppets in the EU. The EU has clearly shown they are not mature enough politically to deal with this issue. Certain member states have matured enough but ultimately it comes down to the permanent members of UNSC of which Russia and China will always veto.

What authority has Mr Feith to say such things ? Arrogance personified!

In Ireland we term such people 'chancers' - they will chance anything to see if they can get away with it.

Well, sorry, no such luck here.

David Crowley

I challenge him to stand up in front of a group of Kosovo Serbs in North Mitrovica and say this.

"...because we have a multi-ethnic Kosovo based on the Ahtisaari document,"

this 'argument' sums it up:
BECAUSE 'WE' 'HAVE' 'MULTI-ETNHIC' 'BASED ON' 'AHTISAARI DOCUMENT"

all phony, contraversial, one-sided, unbridled, unlawful and beaurocratic notions out of touch with common sense and should I dare to say; with the will of the Serbian people and those who support them.

EA, 15 June 2008 12:53

"Russia and China has got a lot to do in their own countries. Kosova is an EU issue and EU is the main sponsor in Kosova's democratic developement"

How could you put so much nonsece in quite few words ?

1. Both Russia and China are offenced with what is happening in KosovO for both of them are multinational countries interested to locate and treat the disease where it was first found.

2. In the circumstances Russia cannot afford retreating over KosovO unless the Serbs themselves stop the resistance for Russian view have also been ignored. All wars against Russia start different while as you know they are finished the same way.

3. KosovO has nothing to do with EU. The only things that connect you are the traffic and stolen cars. Not only you have no chances to join EU during the 50 years to come but the existence of the Union in it's current form is now problematic.

4. As for "democratic developement" you sound insane for mass murderers cannot be democrats. Besides EU have such a democracy that they fear to ask their own nations of the vital choices they have to take. From this point of view only Ireland and Swithzerland have something to be proud of.

5. You Albanians have done a wrong initial stake on the loosing side and they force you to make new mistakes to encorner you and leave you alone with the Serbs. So isn't it time for you to stop ?

"parallelism of authority in Kosovo will not be tolerated".

I wonder what he is going to do about it. He really is arrogant, isn't he, yet he has no authority in Kosovo at all, at least not with the Serbian side. Does he suggest military intervention if he doesn't get his way, or what?

SOmehow I think this EULEX mission will be a failure.

Let me comment on this one person who said that kosovo is an EU issue. In the first place my friend the EU has NO business in interfering in the balkans since Serbia is NOT a member of the EU. The EU's obvious support for this so called kosovo statehood is a clear violation on the sovereighty of a UN member state and a clear INVASION / COLONIZATION. AND IT'S CLEAR THAT THE UNSC HAS THE MORAL AUTHORITY TO RESOLVE THIS KOSOVO PROVINCE ISSUE ALONE.

EA, according to you Russia and China have no business in Kosovo as they have their own problems at home.

Let me tell you that nobody has more problems at home than the US and yet they seem to stick their nose into evryone else's business all the time.

How about you tell Mr Bush to go and sort Ameria's domestic issues first before he starts trampling all over Serbia?

In any case I don't think that eithher Russi or China will take your advice so save it.
Why is it that the Albanian side always says the same thing like Russia should fix their domestic problems first? Is there no other argument against them getting invovled? If that's all you can say then you certainly have a very weak arguemnt.

The UK has more roblems than they can poke a stick at. France as well. Maybe they should all just mind their own business as they haven't claned up their own mess first. Will you support me in this argument as it seems as sane to me as yours is?