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Thursday, 02.07.2009.

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Govt. tells Serbs to shun Kosovo elections

The Serbian government has concluded that the conditions for Serbs in Kosovo to participate in local elections do not exist.

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BalkanUpdate

pre 14 godina

Serb ministers are flat out lying to their people.

1."Svetozar Čiplić told reporters after the session that the ministers looked into the current issues in Kosovo and decided that the return of Serbs to the Kosovo police, KPS, came about with the implementation of the six-point plan, "which itself does not violate Resolution 1244".

2. "The minister ( Bogdanovic) said there was good will exists within the government to help Serbs return to the Kosovo police, KPS, but that Belgrade is negotiation the conditions under which they would not be working under the authority of Priština".

First off, 95% of Serb police have already return, so Bogdanovic is clearly lying here trying to create an impression that there is ongoing negotiation about this. And here is a quote from another B92 article that was published today "EULEX chief said that there had been no negotiations, conditions or agreements with the government in Belgrade regarding the return of Serbs to the KPS." I don't understand why Serb media does not question them when they spout out clear cut lies.

Simple Mind

pre 14 godina

Serb Government organised the election in Kosova(o) in May 2008 in clear breach of the UNSC Resolution 1244 that Serbia speaks so highly about it. According to 1244 Serbia is not entitled to call elections in Kosova(o). Also UNMIK deemed these election illegal because of that reason. Kind of funny situation though, Serbia calls the international community to respect the international law and at the same time it brakes it itself blatantly! Even so according to the 1974 constitution of the former Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia Kosova(o) had the veto right in the federation and no other federal unit incl. Serbia could interfere with Kosovas legal rights incl. elections! So no document from the past, no current document, no legal background entitles Serbia to call elections in Kosova! Not to mention the fact that to call election in a region you actually have to have your authorities in the region to physically execute the election, which Serbia does not have in Kosova(o).

european

pre 14 godina

Ron,

actually, Albanians in Serbia, if you are counting Kosovo, are not a small minority at all! They would represent some 18-20% of the population - something which the Serbian government carefully avoids mentioning.

laki bani

pre 14 godina

“Minister for Human Rights” and coworkers decided about the return of Serbs to KPS! Let us briefly ascertain this contradictory situation. According to the International Human Rights Standards; all forms of discrimination are prohibited decisively, against any person or persons based on sex, age, marital status……, social origin, property, birth or any other status. So that the right for a job is seen exclusively as a right of an individual to decide on his/her own. There shall be no interference towards any one regarding his/her determination or willingness to choose profession and occupation. Ultimately, there is so insensible to me when encountering this kind of assertions by those who represent a section that should exclusively serve its basically principles, no interference to the basic human needs of any one.

Kosova-USA

pre 14 godina

Kosovo will be Northern Cyprus at best!
(Ron, 2 July 2009 22:01)

As far as I know there is no single foreighn embassy in northern cypro, but there is planty in Prishtina,Kosova.

AA

pre 14 godina

The underlying problem here is that the west supports the gangs who are running Kosovo and as long as that is true there is no incentive for that side to come to a bilateral final status agreement. what's started as a bad decision is turning into a nightmare, everyone of those 60countries knew it was illegal and a bad idea but they cannot lose face on their decision to break the law in 1999 and then again in 2007. 1st rule of making a deal with the devil: don't!

Peggy

pre 14 godina

Up to here taste I was with you but then I missed the part where G.W. Bush send his troops in California and killed scores of Californians. Iraq, although an illegitimate war, was never a part of the U.S. so drop the California-U.S. comparison please.
(Zoti, 2 July 2009 17:08)

Ah, but president Lincoln did send troops down south to tame the rebels. It was a bloody civil war and there is no way Bush or anyone else would tolerate that again.

So, you see there is a lot of similarity. It's ok for US government to send their troops all over the world and meddle in everyone's business but it's not OK for Serbia to take care of it's own domestic business.

Nobody will allow their province to secede because they turn radical.

roberto

pre 14 godina

I think this is a very big mistake. the blg regime tells "their" serbs (i don't care if they are 4% or 14%)not to partake in any of kosovar institutions. which further marginalizes them inside kosovo/a, keeps them apart, keeps them alienated and alienating. then the blgd regime shouts: our serbs in kosovo/a are completely marginalized and pristina hasn't succeeded in accomplishing a thriving multi-cultural paradise.

duh! this is called circular reasoning. this is being a (major) part of the problem, not trying to resolve it.

as i have reported here, i am most grateful that sonia biserko and her colleagues in serbia (and kosovo/a) are ignoring the blgd regime as much as possible, and continuing to advocate for the true well-being of serbs in kosovo/a, and in fact for human rights for all people.
go for it, sonia!

i will always believe that when left to their own devises, people find ways to get along, to make pragmatic alliances, to build little bridges, small frndships, do business, attend one another's weddings and funerals. just let people live!

robert-o
frisco

Ataman

pre 14 godina

Roberto,

Please note, not a single "outsider" dared to post anything to recent Albanian election news. That is strictly their business.

I can only applaud the way Serbian gang handled it and it was not a single Serbian trolling.

Here, I do not have any opinion regarding Serbs participating in Kosovo elections or not and intentionally I do not want to form any.

This is strictly Albanian-Serbian matter and everyone who is not affected should not interfere.

Again: I DO NOT HAVE ANY OPINION HERE. Your conscience and your beliefs should guide you, not what some "gastarbajteri" ( = us) do say.

Ron

pre 14 godina

dan-ch,

May I remind you that Albanians are just a small minority in Serbia?

Hope you will take part in SERBIAN elections as Kosovo is just a Serbian province!

I am really getting sick of all these Balkan nonsense!

People in Western Europe are becoming fed up with this at an alarming rate?

You really thing Western Euorpe will allow an illegal state like Kosovo to join EU?

If you think please do a reality check then.

Kosovo will be Northern Cyprus at best!

arti

pre 14 godina

Human and Minority Rights Minister Svetozar Čiplić told reporters after the session that the ministers looked into the current issues in Kosovo and decided that the return of Serbs to the Kosovo police, KPS, came about with the implementation of the six-point plan, "which itself does not violate Resolution 1244 and the policy of a status-neutral position of the responsible international factors.

Now that's what I call a straight lie,
first,the return of Serbs in KPS itsn't in line with ur so called 6 point plan and the reason for that is that the plan is dead and nobody is following it,
second,their return comes due to the ultimatum given by the Kosovo authorities and by the drastic budget cuts from the Serbian government,
and last the resulution 1244 is already dead or if not that's where is headed,given that they're cuting troops every year and KPS is taking over their duty,and as far as the voting I'm concerned if the Serbs living in Kosovo don't want to vote,so it be,it's their decision,if they think it's better they're the ones that's going to benefit from it as one of the above comments pointed out,3/4 % it is not going to have any impact at all but it would be nice for everybody to contribute in building a society together.

Amer

pre 14 godina

This seems to be a pretty weak statement: the conditions don't exist for Serbians to participate - not "any Serb who participates will be considered a traitor and subject to punishment."

It will be better for the Serbian people living in Kosovo if they form their own parties and nominate their own candidates and run on local issues which they will actually have some control over.

Kosova-USA

pre 14 godina

The Serbian government has concluded that the conditions for Serbs in Kosovo to participate in local elections do not exist.

Can anybody tell me why conditions for free election do not exist?

taste

pre 14 godina

zoti,

the correlation here is that Milosevic and Bush were both leaders of a "total" country, where as Serbia and California are (were) provinces/states within the respective afformentioned "total" countries.

Now, I see where you went with what I wrote, and I would certainly have to agree, Bush did not attack a state within his union. That is fair, although that was not the relationship that I was portraying. The relationship is at the leader level, a leader of a "total" country and not a constituent province/state. The issue stems around the "milosevic" remark.
But to be fair, both leaders were able to convince their populations (with or without justification) that they were trying to calm a 'terroristic' upsurgence. One within his own greater territory, and one on someone else's territory. That being said, it is a well established precident that protecting one's own citizens from an internal terroristic organization is acceptable and appropriate force is also acceptable. Where as trying to preemptively strike a soverign nation under the pretense that they are a front nation for terroism does not fall under acceptable behaviour.

So, if drink felt Milosevic's behaviour during the 1990 was unacceptable, one could barely imagine the level of unacceptabilty drink would feel towards Bush's (and now Obama's) war policy. This is where the commonality lies between these two leaders.

Now, it truly was a poor example, but nonetheless a commonality exists.

kosovaman

pre 14 godina

"Living 24 hours a day under military supervision is not a life. But that's the way it will be without an agreement with Belgrade.
(Kalifornia, 2 July 2009 17:56)"

Dear Kalifornia,

We live with 10,000 NATO troops supervising the transition. How about Serbia living with over 100,000 permanent troops and nobody is threatening them? If it wasn't for the KFOR, Serbian troops would enter Kosovo within 2 hours and continue where they left 1999. How can there be a negotiated solution for Kosovo when Serbia only understands and approves the force. Intimidating people to vote is a good proof.

Zoti

pre 14 godina

California is a state of USA... GW Bush was president of USA (still with me here drink?)... GW Bust and Croonies said "Iraq is loaded with WMD" USA people believe with all their tainted hearts that GW Bush is right.
(taste, 2 July 2009 15:04)

Up to here taste I was with you but then I missed the part where G.W. Bush send his troops in California and killed scores of Californians. Iraq, although an illegitimate war, was never a part of the U.S. so drop the California-U.S. comparison please.

Kalifornia

pre 14 godina

Albanians here sure do talk tough but, Kosovo is not going anywhere without Serbia's approval. If you believe anything else, you are deceiving yourself. Living 24 hours a day under military supervision is not a life. But that's the way it will be without an agreement with Belgrade.

Rebel

pre 14 godina

"Bogdanović told the newspaper that this message goes not only to Serbs, but to all Kosovo residents, who must understand that Serbs have always lived there and that this is how it will remain."


Says you! I say you are talking the talk but can't walk the walk.

taste

pre 14 godina

drink,
it is remarkable that you missed the exceptional similarities to california
...
California is infact hunted by scorpions, or have you never left the coast?
Remember Milosevic was President of Jugoslavia... so we extrapolate... Serbia was a province of Jugoslavia, California is a state of USA... GW Bush was president of USA (still with me here drink?)... GW Bust and Croonies said "Iraq is loaded with WMD" USA people believe with all their tainted hearts that GW Bush is right.
WRONG!!!! GW Bush/ D Cheyney LIED... LIED... but
"denied that anything happened until above reasnable doubt proof" will be "shown"
(drink, 2 July 2009 13:47)


drink my friend... you're just a quencher, and left no substance. You described USA to a tee. Thank you for the way you opened up my eyes to the American illegality and hypocrisy... thank you to yours too... (Because I'm certain that you would wholeheartedly support innocent until proven guilty, yet you make comments that certain fellows (milosevic for example) should not have had this RIGHT and not american luxury... oh right true democracy happens everywhere by USA... Strike that... not true... True democracy happens in many places that are not USA...

drink

pre 14 godina

california, well well well,
trying to compare serbia to usa??? hahahaha
california was not hunted by scorpions, milosevich and denied that anything happened until above reasnable doubt proof was shown.

Demi

pre 14 godina

''The minister said there was good will exists within the government to help Serbs return to the Kosovo police, KPS, but that Belgrade is negotiation the conditions under which they would not be working under the authority of Priština.''


Bogdanovic maybee you don't have any information about the KPS serbs but they have returned to their job yesterday. A majority of serbs you had left their work has turned back yesterday. There s just a few ones who hasen't and those few lives in Serbia by now.


The majority of serbs in Kosovo has realised that Belgrade is no help to them in their daily life. Kosovo authoritys on the other hand are very poweful in Kosovo and very encouragen to our serb citizens in Kosovo.,

Zoran

pre 14 godina

Nelli, this "3-4%" control about 30-35% of the territory in Kosovo. If you don't care then that's fine with us.

But this is not doing anything for the province. We need to start accepting the facts and to make an agreement acceptable to all. Firstly, Kosovo will never become independent. Serbia can never control the ethnic Albanians. The ethnic Albanians cannot control the Serbians and others.

The answer is to make an agreement based on more than autonomy and less than independence with ethnic-Albanian self-rule. We can do this now or wait 15 years for this proposal to self-fulfil but in that case we have lost 15 years of potential prosperity.

Unfortunately I don't believe the temporary institutions in the province are mature enough to do the right thing.

Ron

pre 14 godina

Some one else's business?

Kosovo is a Serbian province.

Or are Californian affairs not of America's business?

As long as Kosovo leaders do not accept the fact that Kosovo is a Serbian province Serbs should NOT take part in these elections!

MikeC

pre 14 godina

PRN

Of course it is a bluf! Tadic will recognize Kosovo soon, right! By the way, what happend to the millions of recognitions The Snake promised you? Every week he says "next week this" and "next week that" but what happens? NOTHING!

Nelli_Canada

pre 14 godina

Look who's talking again,LOL.
If belgrade tries to stick its' nose into someone elses
business I'm sure it'll cost them much more than last time.
Do K-Albanians care what happens in Belgrade?, not really, well we never did. BTW who cares if 3-4% don't show up to cast their votes.

PRN

pre 14 godina

This is the latest bluf by Tadic & co. I am prettty sure that a few days before the elections Tadic will change his tone, just as they did with police of Kosovo regading 30 June deadline.

PRN

pre 14 godina

This is the latest bluf by Tadic & co. I am prettty sure that a few days before the elections Tadic will change his tone, just as they did with police of Kosovo regading 30 June deadline.

drink

pre 14 godina

california, well well well,
trying to compare serbia to usa??? hahahaha
california was not hunted by scorpions, milosevich and denied that anything happened until above reasnable doubt proof was shown.

Ron

pre 14 godina

Some one else's business?

Kosovo is a Serbian province.

Or are Californian affairs not of America's business?

As long as Kosovo leaders do not accept the fact that Kosovo is a Serbian province Serbs should NOT take part in these elections!

Zoran

pre 14 godina

Nelli, this "3-4%" control about 30-35% of the territory in Kosovo. If you don't care then that's fine with us.

But this is not doing anything for the province. We need to start accepting the facts and to make an agreement acceptable to all. Firstly, Kosovo will never become independent. Serbia can never control the ethnic Albanians. The ethnic Albanians cannot control the Serbians and others.

The answer is to make an agreement based on more than autonomy and less than independence with ethnic-Albanian self-rule. We can do this now or wait 15 years for this proposal to self-fulfil but in that case we have lost 15 years of potential prosperity.

Unfortunately I don't believe the temporary institutions in the province are mature enough to do the right thing.

Nelli_Canada

pre 14 godina

Look who's talking again,LOL.
If belgrade tries to stick its' nose into someone elses
business I'm sure it'll cost them much more than last time.
Do K-Albanians care what happens in Belgrade?, not really, well we never did. BTW who cares if 3-4% don't show up to cast their votes.

MikeC

pre 14 godina

PRN

Of course it is a bluf! Tadic will recognize Kosovo soon, right! By the way, what happend to the millions of recognitions The Snake promised you? Every week he says "next week this" and "next week that" but what happens? NOTHING!

Rebel

pre 14 godina

"Bogdanović told the newspaper that this message goes not only to Serbs, but to all Kosovo residents, who must understand that Serbs have always lived there and that this is how it will remain."


Says you! I say you are talking the talk but can't walk the walk.

Zoti

pre 14 godina

California is a state of USA... GW Bush was president of USA (still with me here drink?)... GW Bust and Croonies said "Iraq is loaded with WMD" USA people believe with all their tainted hearts that GW Bush is right.
(taste, 2 July 2009 15:04)

Up to here taste I was with you but then I missed the part where G.W. Bush send his troops in California and killed scores of Californians. Iraq, although an illegitimate war, was never a part of the U.S. so drop the California-U.S. comparison please.

Demi

pre 14 godina

''The minister said there was good will exists within the government to help Serbs return to the Kosovo police, KPS, but that Belgrade is negotiation the conditions under which they would not be working under the authority of Priština.''


Bogdanovic maybee you don't have any information about the KPS serbs but they have returned to their job yesterday. A majority of serbs you had left their work has turned back yesterday. There s just a few ones who hasen't and those few lives in Serbia by now.


The majority of serbs in Kosovo has realised that Belgrade is no help to them in their daily life. Kosovo authoritys on the other hand are very poweful in Kosovo and very encouragen to our serb citizens in Kosovo.,

Ron

pre 14 godina

dan-ch,

May I remind you that Albanians are just a small minority in Serbia?

Hope you will take part in SERBIAN elections as Kosovo is just a Serbian province!

I am really getting sick of all these Balkan nonsense!

People in Western Europe are becoming fed up with this at an alarming rate?

You really thing Western Euorpe will allow an illegal state like Kosovo to join EU?

If you think please do a reality check then.

Kosovo will be Northern Cyprus at best!

taste

pre 14 godina

drink,
it is remarkable that you missed the exceptional similarities to california
...
California is infact hunted by scorpions, or have you never left the coast?
Remember Milosevic was President of Jugoslavia... so we extrapolate... Serbia was a province of Jugoslavia, California is a state of USA... GW Bush was president of USA (still with me here drink?)... GW Bust and Croonies said "Iraq is loaded with WMD" USA people believe with all their tainted hearts that GW Bush is right.
WRONG!!!! GW Bush/ D Cheyney LIED... LIED... but
"denied that anything happened until above reasnable doubt proof" will be "shown"
(drink, 2 July 2009 13:47)


drink my friend... you're just a quencher, and left no substance. You described USA to a tee. Thank you for the way you opened up my eyes to the American illegality and hypocrisy... thank you to yours too... (Because I'm certain that you would wholeheartedly support innocent until proven guilty, yet you make comments that certain fellows (milosevic for example) should not have had this RIGHT and not american luxury... oh right true democracy happens everywhere by USA... Strike that... not true... True democracy happens in many places that are not USA...

Kalifornia

pre 14 godina

Albanians here sure do talk tough but, Kosovo is not going anywhere without Serbia's approval. If you believe anything else, you are deceiving yourself. Living 24 hours a day under military supervision is not a life. But that's the way it will be without an agreement with Belgrade.

Kosova-USA

pre 14 godina

The Serbian government has concluded that the conditions for Serbs in Kosovo to participate in local elections do not exist.

Can anybody tell me why conditions for free election do not exist?

kosovaman

pre 14 godina

"Living 24 hours a day under military supervision is not a life. But that's the way it will be without an agreement with Belgrade.
(Kalifornia, 2 July 2009 17:56)"

Dear Kalifornia,

We live with 10,000 NATO troops supervising the transition. How about Serbia living with over 100,000 permanent troops and nobody is threatening them? If it wasn't for the KFOR, Serbian troops would enter Kosovo within 2 hours and continue where they left 1999. How can there be a negotiated solution for Kosovo when Serbia only understands and approves the force. Intimidating people to vote is a good proof.

Kosova-USA

pre 14 godina

Kosovo will be Northern Cyprus at best!
(Ron, 2 July 2009 22:01)

As far as I know there is no single foreighn embassy in northern cypro, but there is planty in Prishtina,Kosova.

taste

pre 14 godina

zoti,

the correlation here is that Milosevic and Bush were both leaders of a "total" country, where as Serbia and California are (were) provinces/states within the respective afformentioned "total" countries.

Now, I see where you went with what I wrote, and I would certainly have to agree, Bush did not attack a state within his union. That is fair, although that was not the relationship that I was portraying. The relationship is at the leader level, a leader of a "total" country and not a constituent province/state. The issue stems around the "milosevic" remark.
But to be fair, both leaders were able to convince their populations (with or without justification) that they were trying to calm a 'terroristic' upsurgence. One within his own greater territory, and one on someone else's territory. That being said, it is a well established precident that protecting one's own citizens from an internal terroristic organization is acceptable and appropriate force is also acceptable. Where as trying to preemptively strike a soverign nation under the pretense that they are a front nation for terroism does not fall under acceptable behaviour.

So, if drink felt Milosevic's behaviour during the 1990 was unacceptable, one could barely imagine the level of unacceptabilty drink would feel towards Bush's (and now Obama's) war policy. This is where the commonality lies between these two leaders.

Now, it truly was a poor example, but nonetheless a commonality exists.

roberto

pre 14 godina

I think this is a very big mistake. the blg regime tells "their" serbs (i don't care if they are 4% or 14%)not to partake in any of kosovar institutions. which further marginalizes them inside kosovo/a, keeps them apart, keeps them alienated and alienating. then the blgd regime shouts: our serbs in kosovo/a are completely marginalized and pristina hasn't succeeded in accomplishing a thriving multi-cultural paradise.

duh! this is called circular reasoning. this is being a (major) part of the problem, not trying to resolve it.

as i have reported here, i am most grateful that sonia biserko and her colleagues in serbia (and kosovo/a) are ignoring the blgd regime as much as possible, and continuing to advocate for the true well-being of serbs in kosovo/a, and in fact for human rights for all people.
go for it, sonia!

i will always believe that when left to their own devises, people find ways to get along, to make pragmatic alliances, to build little bridges, small frndships, do business, attend one another's weddings and funerals. just let people live!

robert-o
frisco

european

pre 14 godina

Ron,

actually, Albanians in Serbia, if you are counting Kosovo, are not a small minority at all! They would represent some 18-20% of the population - something which the Serbian government carefully avoids mentioning.

Amer

pre 14 godina

This seems to be a pretty weak statement: the conditions don't exist for Serbians to participate - not "any Serb who participates will be considered a traitor and subject to punishment."

It will be better for the Serbian people living in Kosovo if they form their own parties and nominate their own candidates and run on local issues which they will actually have some control over.

arti

pre 14 godina

Human and Minority Rights Minister Svetozar Čiplić told reporters after the session that the ministers looked into the current issues in Kosovo and decided that the return of Serbs to the Kosovo police, KPS, came about with the implementation of the six-point plan, "which itself does not violate Resolution 1244 and the policy of a status-neutral position of the responsible international factors.

Now that's what I call a straight lie,
first,the return of Serbs in KPS itsn't in line with ur so called 6 point plan and the reason for that is that the plan is dead and nobody is following it,
second,their return comes due to the ultimatum given by the Kosovo authorities and by the drastic budget cuts from the Serbian government,
and last the resulution 1244 is already dead or if not that's where is headed,given that they're cuting troops every year and KPS is taking over their duty,and as far as the voting I'm concerned if the Serbs living in Kosovo don't want to vote,so it be,it's their decision,if they think it's better they're the ones that's going to benefit from it as one of the above comments pointed out,3/4 % it is not going to have any impact at all but it would be nice for everybody to contribute in building a society together.

Simple Mind

pre 14 godina

Serb Government organised the election in Kosova(o) in May 2008 in clear breach of the UNSC Resolution 1244 that Serbia speaks so highly about it. According to 1244 Serbia is not entitled to call elections in Kosova(o). Also UNMIK deemed these election illegal because of that reason. Kind of funny situation though, Serbia calls the international community to respect the international law and at the same time it brakes it itself blatantly! Even so according to the 1974 constitution of the former Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia Kosova(o) had the veto right in the federation and no other federal unit incl. Serbia could interfere with Kosovas legal rights incl. elections! So no document from the past, no current document, no legal background entitles Serbia to call elections in Kosova! Not to mention the fact that to call election in a region you actually have to have your authorities in the region to physically execute the election, which Serbia does not have in Kosova(o).

Peggy

pre 14 godina

Up to here taste I was with you but then I missed the part where G.W. Bush send his troops in California and killed scores of Californians. Iraq, although an illegitimate war, was never a part of the U.S. so drop the California-U.S. comparison please.
(Zoti, 2 July 2009 17:08)

Ah, but president Lincoln did send troops down south to tame the rebels. It was a bloody civil war and there is no way Bush or anyone else would tolerate that again.

So, you see there is a lot of similarity. It's ok for US government to send their troops all over the world and meddle in everyone's business but it's not OK for Serbia to take care of it's own domestic business.

Nobody will allow their province to secede because they turn radical.

Ataman

pre 14 godina

Roberto,

Please note, not a single "outsider" dared to post anything to recent Albanian election news. That is strictly their business.

I can only applaud the way Serbian gang handled it and it was not a single Serbian trolling.

Here, I do not have any opinion regarding Serbs participating in Kosovo elections or not and intentionally I do not want to form any.

This is strictly Albanian-Serbian matter and everyone who is not affected should not interfere.

Again: I DO NOT HAVE ANY OPINION HERE. Your conscience and your beliefs should guide you, not what some "gastarbajteri" ( = us) do say.

laki bani

pre 14 godina

“Minister for Human Rights” and coworkers decided about the return of Serbs to KPS! Let us briefly ascertain this contradictory situation. According to the International Human Rights Standards; all forms of discrimination are prohibited decisively, against any person or persons based on sex, age, marital status……, social origin, property, birth or any other status. So that the right for a job is seen exclusively as a right of an individual to decide on his/her own. There shall be no interference towards any one regarding his/her determination or willingness to choose profession and occupation. Ultimately, there is so insensible to me when encountering this kind of assertions by those who represent a section that should exclusively serve its basically principles, no interference to the basic human needs of any one.

BalkanUpdate

pre 14 godina

Serb ministers are flat out lying to their people.

1."Svetozar Čiplić told reporters after the session that the ministers looked into the current issues in Kosovo and decided that the return of Serbs to the Kosovo police, KPS, came about with the implementation of the six-point plan, "which itself does not violate Resolution 1244".

2. "The minister ( Bogdanovic) said there was good will exists within the government to help Serbs return to the Kosovo police, KPS, but that Belgrade is negotiation the conditions under which they would not be working under the authority of Priština".

First off, 95% of Serb police have already return, so Bogdanovic is clearly lying here trying to create an impression that there is ongoing negotiation about this. And here is a quote from another B92 article that was published today "EULEX chief said that there had been no negotiations, conditions or agreements with the government in Belgrade regarding the return of Serbs to the KPS." I don't understand why Serb media does not question them when they spout out clear cut lies.

AA

pre 14 godina

The underlying problem here is that the west supports the gangs who are running Kosovo and as long as that is true there is no incentive for that side to come to a bilateral final status agreement. what's started as a bad decision is turning into a nightmare, everyone of those 60countries knew it was illegal and a bad idea but they cannot lose face on their decision to break the law in 1999 and then again in 2007. 1st rule of making a deal with the devil: don't!

Ron

pre 14 godina

Some one else's business?

Kosovo is a Serbian province.

Or are Californian affairs not of America's business?

As long as Kosovo leaders do not accept the fact that Kosovo is a Serbian province Serbs should NOT take part in these elections!

Nelli_Canada

pre 14 godina

Look who's talking again,LOL.
If belgrade tries to stick its' nose into someone elses
business I'm sure it'll cost them much more than last time.
Do K-Albanians care what happens in Belgrade?, not really, well we never did. BTW who cares if 3-4% don't show up to cast their votes.

MikeC

pre 14 godina

PRN

Of course it is a bluf! Tadic will recognize Kosovo soon, right! By the way, what happend to the millions of recognitions The Snake promised you? Every week he says "next week this" and "next week that" but what happens? NOTHING!

PRN

pre 14 godina

This is the latest bluf by Tadic & co. I am prettty sure that a few days before the elections Tadic will change his tone, just as they did with police of Kosovo regading 30 June deadline.

Zoran

pre 14 godina

Nelli, this "3-4%" control about 30-35% of the territory in Kosovo. If you don't care then that's fine with us.

But this is not doing anything for the province. We need to start accepting the facts and to make an agreement acceptable to all. Firstly, Kosovo will never become independent. Serbia can never control the ethnic Albanians. The ethnic Albanians cannot control the Serbians and others.

The answer is to make an agreement based on more than autonomy and less than independence with ethnic-Albanian self-rule. We can do this now or wait 15 years for this proposal to self-fulfil but in that case we have lost 15 years of potential prosperity.

Unfortunately I don't believe the temporary institutions in the province are mature enough to do the right thing.

drink

pre 14 godina

california, well well well,
trying to compare serbia to usa??? hahahaha
california was not hunted by scorpions, milosevich and denied that anything happened until above reasnable doubt proof was shown.

Kalifornia

pre 14 godina

Albanians here sure do talk tough but, Kosovo is not going anywhere without Serbia's approval. If you believe anything else, you are deceiving yourself. Living 24 hours a day under military supervision is not a life. But that's the way it will be without an agreement with Belgrade.

Demi

pre 14 godina

''The minister said there was good will exists within the government to help Serbs return to the Kosovo police, KPS, but that Belgrade is negotiation the conditions under which they would not be working under the authority of Priština.''


Bogdanovic maybee you don't have any information about the KPS serbs but they have returned to their job yesterday. A majority of serbs you had left their work has turned back yesterday. There s just a few ones who hasen't and those few lives in Serbia by now.


The majority of serbs in Kosovo has realised that Belgrade is no help to them in their daily life. Kosovo authoritys on the other hand are very poweful in Kosovo and very encouragen to our serb citizens in Kosovo.,

kosovaman

pre 14 godina

"Living 24 hours a day under military supervision is not a life. But that's the way it will be without an agreement with Belgrade.
(Kalifornia, 2 July 2009 17:56)"

Dear Kalifornia,

We live with 10,000 NATO troops supervising the transition. How about Serbia living with over 100,000 permanent troops and nobody is threatening them? If it wasn't for the KFOR, Serbian troops would enter Kosovo within 2 hours and continue where they left 1999. How can there be a negotiated solution for Kosovo when Serbia only understands and approves the force. Intimidating people to vote is a good proof.

Rebel

pre 14 godina

"Bogdanović told the newspaper that this message goes not only to Serbs, but to all Kosovo residents, who must understand that Serbs have always lived there and that this is how it will remain."


Says you! I say you are talking the talk but can't walk the walk.

Ron

pre 14 godina

dan-ch,

May I remind you that Albanians are just a small minority in Serbia?

Hope you will take part in SERBIAN elections as Kosovo is just a Serbian province!

I am really getting sick of all these Balkan nonsense!

People in Western Europe are becoming fed up with this at an alarming rate?

You really thing Western Euorpe will allow an illegal state like Kosovo to join EU?

If you think please do a reality check then.

Kosovo will be Northern Cyprus at best!

roberto

pre 14 godina

I think this is a very big mistake. the blg regime tells "their" serbs (i don't care if they are 4% or 14%)not to partake in any of kosovar institutions. which further marginalizes them inside kosovo/a, keeps them apart, keeps them alienated and alienating. then the blgd regime shouts: our serbs in kosovo/a are completely marginalized and pristina hasn't succeeded in accomplishing a thriving multi-cultural paradise.

duh! this is called circular reasoning. this is being a (major) part of the problem, not trying to resolve it.

as i have reported here, i am most grateful that sonia biserko and her colleagues in serbia (and kosovo/a) are ignoring the blgd regime as much as possible, and continuing to advocate for the true well-being of serbs in kosovo/a, and in fact for human rights for all people.
go for it, sonia!

i will always believe that when left to their own devises, people find ways to get along, to make pragmatic alliances, to build little bridges, small frndships, do business, attend one another's weddings and funerals. just let people live!

robert-o
frisco

taste

pre 14 godina

drink,
it is remarkable that you missed the exceptional similarities to california
...
California is infact hunted by scorpions, or have you never left the coast?
Remember Milosevic was President of Jugoslavia... so we extrapolate... Serbia was a province of Jugoslavia, California is a state of USA... GW Bush was president of USA (still with me here drink?)... GW Bust and Croonies said "Iraq is loaded with WMD" USA people believe with all their tainted hearts that GW Bush is right.
WRONG!!!! GW Bush/ D Cheyney LIED... LIED... but
"denied that anything happened until above reasnable doubt proof" will be "shown"
(drink, 2 July 2009 13:47)


drink my friend... you're just a quencher, and left no substance. You described USA to a tee. Thank you for the way you opened up my eyes to the American illegality and hypocrisy... thank you to yours too... (Because I'm certain that you would wholeheartedly support innocent until proven guilty, yet you make comments that certain fellows (milosevic for example) should not have had this RIGHT and not american luxury... oh right true democracy happens everywhere by USA... Strike that... not true... True democracy happens in many places that are not USA...

Kosova-USA

pre 14 godina

The Serbian government has concluded that the conditions for Serbs in Kosovo to participate in local elections do not exist.

Can anybody tell me why conditions for free election do not exist?

Zoti

pre 14 godina

California is a state of USA... GW Bush was president of USA (still with me here drink?)... GW Bust and Croonies said "Iraq is loaded with WMD" USA people believe with all their tainted hearts that GW Bush is right.
(taste, 2 July 2009 15:04)

Up to here taste I was with you but then I missed the part where G.W. Bush send his troops in California and killed scores of Californians. Iraq, although an illegitimate war, was never a part of the U.S. so drop the California-U.S. comparison please.

taste

pre 14 godina

zoti,

the correlation here is that Milosevic and Bush were both leaders of a "total" country, where as Serbia and California are (were) provinces/states within the respective afformentioned "total" countries.

Now, I see where you went with what I wrote, and I would certainly have to agree, Bush did not attack a state within his union. That is fair, although that was not the relationship that I was portraying. The relationship is at the leader level, a leader of a "total" country and not a constituent province/state. The issue stems around the "milosevic" remark.
But to be fair, both leaders were able to convince their populations (with or without justification) that they were trying to calm a 'terroristic' upsurgence. One within his own greater territory, and one on someone else's territory. That being said, it is a well established precident that protecting one's own citizens from an internal terroristic organization is acceptable and appropriate force is also acceptable. Where as trying to preemptively strike a soverign nation under the pretense that they are a front nation for terroism does not fall under acceptable behaviour.

So, if drink felt Milosevic's behaviour during the 1990 was unacceptable, one could barely imagine the level of unacceptabilty drink would feel towards Bush's (and now Obama's) war policy. This is where the commonality lies between these two leaders.

Now, it truly was a poor example, but nonetheless a commonality exists.

arti

pre 14 godina

Human and Minority Rights Minister Svetozar Čiplić told reporters after the session that the ministers looked into the current issues in Kosovo and decided that the return of Serbs to the Kosovo police, KPS, came about with the implementation of the six-point plan, "which itself does not violate Resolution 1244 and the policy of a status-neutral position of the responsible international factors.

Now that's what I call a straight lie,
first,the return of Serbs in KPS itsn't in line with ur so called 6 point plan and the reason for that is that the plan is dead and nobody is following it,
second,their return comes due to the ultimatum given by the Kosovo authorities and by the drastic budget cuts from the Serbian government,
and last the resulution 1244 is already dead or if not that's where is headed,given that they're cuting troops every year and KPS is taking over their duty,and as far as the voting I'm concerned if the Serbs living in Kosovo don't want to vote,so it be,it's their decision,if they think it's better they're the ones that's going to benefit from it as one of the above comments pointed out,3/4 % it is not going to have any impact at all but it would be nice for everybody to contribute in building a society together.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

Up to here taste I was with you but then I missed the part where G.W. Bush send his troops in California and killed scores of Californians. Iraq, although an illegitimate war, was never a part of the U.S. so drop the California-U.S. comparison please.
(Zoti, 2 July 2009 17:08)

Ah, but president Lincoln did send troops down south to tame the rebels. It was a bloody civil war and there is no way Bush or anyone else would tolerate that again.

So, you see there is a lot of similarity. It's ok for US government to send their troops all over the world and meddle in everyone's business but it's not OK for Serbia to take care of it's own domestic business.

Nobody will allow their province to secede because they turn radical.

Amer

pre 14 godina

This seems to be a pretty weak statement: the conditions don't exist for Serbians to participate - not "any Serb who participates will be considered a traitor and subject to punishment."

It will be better for the Serbian people living in Kosovo if they form their own parties and nominate their own candidates and run on local issues which they will actually have some control over.

Ataman

pre 14 godina

Roberto,

Please note, not a single "outsider" dared to post anything to recent Albanian election news. That is strictly their business.

I can only applaud the way Serbian gang handled it and it was not a single Serbian trolling.

Here, I do not have any opinion regarding Serbs participating in Kosovo elections or not and intentionally I do not want to form any.

This is strictly Albanian-Serbian matter and everyone who is not affected should not interfere.

Again: I DO NOT HAVE ANY OPINION HERE. Your conscience and your beliefs should guide you, not what some "gastarbajteri" ( = us) do say.

AA

pre 14 godina

The underlying problem here is that the west supports the gangs who are running Kosovo and as long as that is true there is no incentive for that side to come to a bilateral final status agreement. what's started as a bad decision is turning into a nightmare, everyone of those 60countries knew it was illegal and a bad idea but they cannot lose face on their decision to break the law in 1999 and then again in 2007. 1st rule of making a deal with the devil: don't!

Kosova-USA

pre 14 godina

Kosovo will be Northern Cyprus at best!
(Ron, 2 July 2009 22:01)

As far as I know there is no single foreighn embassy in northern cypro, but there is planty in Prishtina,Kosova.

european

pre 14 godina

Ron,

actually, Albanians in Serbia, if you are counting Kosovo, are not a small minority at all! They would represent some 18-20% of the population - something which the Serbian government carefully avoids mentioning.

BalkanUpdate

pre 14 godina

Serb ministers are flat out lying to their people.

1."Svetozar Čiplić told reporters after the session that the ministers looked into the current issues in Kosovo and decided that the return of Serbs to the Kosovo police, KPS, came about with the implementation of the six-point plan, "which itself does not violate Resolution 1244".

2. "The minister ( Bogdanovic) said there was good will exists within the government to help Serbs return to the Kosovo police, KPS, but that Belgrade is negotiation the conditions under which they would not be working under the authority of Priština".

First off, 95% of Serb police have already return, so Bogdanovic is clearly lying here trying to create an impression that there is ongoing negotiation about this. And here is a quote from another B92 article that was published today "EULEX chief said that there had been no negotiations, conditions or agreements with the government in Belgrade regarding the return of Serbs to the KPS." I don't understand why Serb media does not question them when they spout out clear cut lies.

Simple Mind

pre 14 godina

Serb Government organised the election in Kosova(o) in May 2008 in clear breach of the UNSC Resolution 1244 that Serbia speaks so highly about it. According to 1244 Serbia is not entitled to call elections in Kosova(o). Also UNMIK deemed these election illegal because of that reason. Kind of funny situation though, Serbia calls the international community to respect the international law and at the same time it brakes it itself blatantly! Even so according to the 1974 constitution of the former Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia Kosova(o) had the veto right in the federation and no other federal unit incl. Serbia could interfere with Kosovas legal rights incl. elections! So no document from the past, no current document, no legal background entitles Serbia to call elections in Kosova! Not to mention the fact that to call election in a region you actually have to have your authorities in the region to physically execute the election, which Serbia does not have in Kosova(o).

laki bani

pre 14 godina

“Minister for Human Rights” and coworkers decided about the return of Serbs to KPS! Let us briefly ascertain this contradictory situation. According to the International Human Rights Standards; all forms of discrimination are prohibited decisively, against any person or persons based on sex, age, marital status……, social origin, property, birth or any other status. So that the right for a job is seen exclusively as a right of an individual to decide on his/her own. There shall be no interference towards any one regarding his/her determination or willingness to choose profession and occupation. Ultimately, there is so insensible to me when encountering this kind of assertions by those who represent a section that should exclusively serve its basically principles, no interference to the basic human needs of any one.