PM: Kosovo issue needs to be resolved

Serbia lost Kosovo in 1999 and this was confirmed by the people in 2008. It isn't a matter of loosing Kosovo but keeping what you can aka Northern Kosovo which is de facto apart of Serbia.

"‘Kosovo is a heart of Serbia, it is a part of Serbia according to the Constitution’"

Did the people of Kosovo get a say in the constitution?

Lets say for arguments sake that the UK had a referendum accepted by the British public on a constitution which defined Portugal as an integeral part of the UK, would that make Portugal apart of the UK? Because this is exactly what Serbia did with Kosovo. Not a single person in Kosovo was given a say on the constitution, even though UNSCR 1244 says that Kosovo's final status must be mutually agreed by both sides. Well Serbia's constitution was an attempt to unilaterally finalise Kosovo's status and that goes against UNSCR 1244 as it wasn't mutually agreed by both parties.

To "help" Dacic in his arguments....in Kosovo there was a bloody war orchastrated by Serbian state of Milloshevic. I have said in the past and repeat it again if a country/state wages a war against "its own people" it risks losing this people and the territory where they live in. That was Kosovo issue. There was no war in Vojvodina....and it is still under Serbia. Dacic speech could have a value towards Vojvodina.....

I swear this guy gives some of the funniest statements, even more since he met Thaci. Seems like he is intimitated by Hashim, or why is repeatedly saying how HE would have beat him and how his pin was bigger than Thacis. Or him denyin that there was a handshake in Brussels. This guy is pure entertainment.

" Not a single person in Kosovo was given a say on the constitution, even though UNSCR 1244 says that Kosovo's final status must be mutually agreed by both sides."

The political solution referred to in Res 1244 was based on the requirements of the Rambouillet accords, which were quite careful to omit any reference to the need for mutual agreement - there was mention there of a referendum, and everybody knew how that would turn out, but nothing about Serbia having to agree to the outcome. The Serbian representatives at the UN knew exactly what reference to Rambouillet meant - Kosovo's eventual secession - and fought against it, for that reason, and the resolution was passed over their objection. Resolution 1244 was a document imposed on the losing side in a war, and was not written with Serb wishes in mind. So, after claiming to have defeated Nato in the war, the government went on and claimed they had won a diplomatic victory at the UN.

On the other hand, Kurir has some garish maps today based on what it claims are data from the Serbian statistical office showing the demographics of southern Serbia and Kosovo over the coming decades. The Kosovars, it looks like, can afford to be patient.

Dacic told Thaci in Brussels Kososo belongs also to him, he was born there. Thaci answered cool, no problem, he would personal deliver to him his second citizenship-passport from Kosovo. He would have the right therefore. Dacic´s comments are really "patriotic"when he blames the Serb constitution that there is Kosovo a part of Serbia. In which country the PM would so critzise the own constitution. Little person in all meanings.

What happened to his position that partition was the only solution? Has that changed now? What exactly went on there in Brussels? Which sticks and carrots were shown?

"We can act like Greece and say that Constantinople is a Greek capital but it no longer is and they have been saying this for 100 years,” the prime minister stressed."

It speaks for Dacic and the Serb mentality to attack a position which has nothing to do with Serbia of one of the last friends of Serbia. To kiss the shoes of politicians which were happy with the bombs on Belgrade and to crtizise the freinds, what a nation, what gentle mentality...

Well Dacic now that you finally have come round to the idea of Zoran Djindjic's to tackle the Kosovo issue as soon as possible, I'd have to ask why the hell you didn't speak up about this in the last 20 years when you had ample opportunity, both under your former mentor Milosevic and once he departed the political scene?

If you honestly now believe that Serbia is slowly losing the political battle for Kosovo by doing nothing then how culpable are the politics of SPS led by you for the last number of years? Where were you when Djindjic was arguing for negotitiations? - Oh yes thats right you were busy making deals with Kostunica, Kostunica whose flagship policy on Kosovo at the time was to do precisely nothing and fought Djnidjic tooth and nail in opposing negotiations and resolution of Kosovo, alongside SRS.

Dacic is making out he's smelled the coffee and together with that, issues some fighting statements about smashing Thaci, just in case his patriotic credentials are questioned by those on the political right in Serbia.

Well Dacic, you think surveys and polls give you strength in your current position concerning the EU and Kosovo and you come out with new statements. However, the people in Serbia who have for years supported dialogue with Kosovo Albanians don't believe you, because almost every speech you make is contradictory. On the other hand the more 'patriotic' block who give you support at the moment will turn against you.
You will have to take a side Dacic...

Not all countries which have not recognized Kosovo are friends of Serbia, these countries are following their own interests to do so. Its the wrong understanding of Serbs "we all are friends", possibly this is so in Kindergarten but not in real live, states have no friends, they ahve interests.

I am surprised so many people find it normal that a significant piece of land can just be taken away from the country that is significant to, by force (terrosist ethnic cleansing), by having a higher birthrate than the original inhabitants, and by completely ignoring all international laws and regulations regarding this all.

Kosovo has no grounds to be independant, whatsoever, other than what a population brainwashed by extremists wants because they think it's good for them. If a group of terrorist seperatist frysian people in the Netherlands want to separate their province from the Netherlands this is called "irrational" so much that it is almost hilarious, i don't understand how that is any different with Kosovo and Serbia.

Maybe they do understand it's not normal but play a game to get what they want? I think i know the answer.

this guy is to busy worrying about kosovo and not the people, serbia is dying and the population of albanians will be more than serbs in serbia in 40 years or less and heres the news for it


http://www.kurir-info.rs/pretnja-do-2080-albanaca-ce-biti-vise-nego-srba-clanak-472672

In other news President Nikolic, on the same day as meeting the US ambassador dismissed Dusan Batakovic, who some posters will remember made hardline statements supporting Serbia's right to sovereignty over Kosovo a few days ago.

Batakovic, a historian was pretty well known in the Serbian diaspora for over a decade although appointed by DS, was admired by Serbian nationalists. His views were much closer to DSS and SRS on Kosovo.

Anyway it appears that Dacic and Nikolic are working in tandem on the Kosovo issue, removing opposition to talks etc within their own ranks.

Whilst traditional right wingers are celebrating internal problems within DS, there is no serious opposition to whatever the government proposes right now. And what with the right wing element usually happy to take to the streets against the 'yellows', Dacic and Nikolic think they have a free hand - and at the beginning of their mandate they may well be right...

Dacic is speaking like a slave of Ashton´s will. He is happy that for his dreams of capitulation he is getting positive comments. What he can buy for this? Nothing. A NORMAL PM of a country would first set maximal-demands which he can lower in talks, but Daic is offering from the beginning to be flexible, what means, to have no clear position. Not touching the status, what Dacic is accepting, is meaning, not solving the problem. A PM not accepting and defeding the own constitution is not the right person for this position. Dacic is only repeating the demands from the EU. Why? New demands will follow, after he has started to recognize Prishina. But he will start other discussions within serbia: Sandzak, Vojvodina and Presevo. He says, the Albanians would not like to live together with the Serbs. OK, but why he will open a historic new chapter between Serbs and Albanians, after the last common ground was destroyed in the last war. Why Belgrade is making -un-answered- efforts for "cooperation" with Tirana. If Belgrade is making a internal and foreign policy designed by some bureaucrats in Brussels it will never achieve any progress. Brussels know how limited are the possibilities of the Albanians. And therefore Belgrade should now be responsible to fill the gab. And Belgrade is soo naive to follow such poisened advise.

“It is not a problem that Albanians do not want to live with Serbs, the problem is that they declared independence without an agreement with the state of Serbia”. Serbia is against UDI of Kosovo? So their declaration that Kosovo is a part of Serbia in the constitution without including the people that actually live there, isn't a unilateral declaration? It isn't against the UNSC resolution 1244 which states that final status must be mutually agreed by both sides? So no matter the negotiations, Kosovo was gonna be a part of Serbia according to the constitution. A constitution that the Venice Commission declared not fair to the status of Kosovo. Here is the Venice Commission opinion and read part 7 and 8:

http://www.venice.coe.int/docs/2007/CDL-AD%282007%29004-e.pdf

Dacic's words sound like words of war. “I waged a war against this (Kosovo PM Hashim) Thaci and I probably would have defeated him if there was not for the international community.” Nothing has changed in the mentality of the Serbian political elite. If it wasn't for the international community, there would not be many Albanians in Kosovo. YES, only war would bring Kosovo in Serbian control, and only IF they win and the international community would allow it, which is unlikely.

this is simple serbia to accept kosova as state if serbia wants
Anything from EU if the dont than what dacic said
We will be like greec end of story broke....

I wil say this serbs and alb we can say anything we want but the reality is than no one care what we say' we have to play there game what EU and US say aminnn

Dacic, you have lost it all. You're completely out your mind, whatever happened to that patriot Dacic? The one who would take Kosova back by force? The one who knew how to talk to Serbian citizens before elections? I guess that was all for a show. Just to get the support you needed and then basically do what you are known to do be a traitor. You're by far the easiest Serbian politician to be bought out. Well Serbians once again, this is what you get from someone you thought has your best interest.

@Ari Gold-- hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Reminder to those that think Serbia has no friends. Four countries that do not recognize K:

Brazil
Russia
India
China

I am surprised so many people find it normal that a significant piece of land can just be taken away from the country that is significant to, by force (terrosist ethnic cleansing), by having a higher birthrate than the original inhabitants, and by completely ignoring all international laws and regulations regarding this all.

Kosovo has no grounds to be independant, whatsoever, other than what a population brainwashed by extremists wants because they think it's good for them. If a group of terrorist seperatist frysian people in the Netherlands want to separate their province from the Netherlands this is called "irrational" so much that it is almost hilarious, i don't understand how that is any different with Kosovo and Serbia.

Maybe they do understand it's not normal but play a game to get what they want? I think i know the answer.

Reminder to those that think Serbia has no friends. Four countries that do not recognize K:

Brazil
Russia
India
China

Serbia lost Kosovo in 1999 and this was confirmed by the people in 2008. It isn't a matter of loosing Kosovo but keeping what you can aka Northern Kosovo which is de facto apart of Serbia.

"‘Kosovo is a heart of Serbia, it is a part of Serbia according to the Constitution’"

Did the people of Kosovo get a say in the constitution?

Lets say for arguments sake that the UK had a referendum accepted by the British public on a constitution which defined Portugal as an integeral part of the UK, would that make Portugal apart of the UK? Because this is exactly what Serbia did with Kosovo. Not a single person in Kosovo was given a say on the constitution, even though UNSCR 1244 says that Kosovo's final status must be mutually agreed by both sides. Well Serbia's constitution was an attempt to unilaterally finalise Kosovo's status and that goes against UNSCR 1244 as it wasn't mutually agreed by both parties.

To "help" Dacic in his arguments....in Kosovo there was a bloody war orchastrated by Serbian state of Milloshevic. I have said in the past and repeat it again if a country/state wages a war against "its own people" it risks losing this people and the territory where they live in. That was Kosovo issue. There was no war in Vojvodina....and it is still under Serbia. Dacic speech could have a value towards Vojvodina.....

" Not a single person in Kosovo was given a say on the constitution, even though UNSCR 1244 says that Kosovo's final status must be mutually agreed by both sides."

The political solution referred to in Res 1244 was based on the requirements of the Rambouillet accords, which were quite careful to omit any reference to the need for mutual agreement - there was mention there of a referendum, and everybody knew how that would turn out, but nothing about Serbia having to agree to the outcome. The Serbian representatives at the UN knew exactly what reference to Rambouillet meant - Kosovo's eventual secession - and fought against it, for that reason, and the resolution was passed over their objection. Resolution 1244 was a document imposed on the losing side in a war, and was not written with Serb wishes in mind. So, after claiming to have defeated Nato in the war, the government went on and claimed they had won a diplomatic victory at the UN.

On the other hand, Kurir has some garish maps today based on what it claims are data from the Serbian statistical office showing the demographics of southern Serbia and Kosovo over the coming decades. The Kosovars, it looks like, can afford to be patient.

I swear this guy gives some of the funniest statements, even more since he met Thaci. Seems like he is intimitated by Hashim, or why is repeatedly saying how HE would have beat him and how his pin was bigger than Thacis. Or him denyin that there was a handshake in Brussels. This guy is pure entertainment.

Dacic is speaking like a slave of Ashton´s will. He is happy that for his dreams of capitulation he is getting positive comments. What he can buy for this? Nothing. A NORMAL PM of a country would first set maximal-demands which he can lower in talks, but Daic is offering from the beginning to be flexible, what means, to have no clear position. Not touching the status, what Dacic is accepting, is meaning, not solving the problem. A PM not accepting and defeding the own constitution is not the right person for this position. Dacic is only repeating the demands from the EU. Why? New demands will follow, after he has started to recognize Prishina. But he will start other discussions within serbia: Sandzak, Vojvodina and Presevo. He says, the Albanians would not like to live together with the Serbs. OK, but why he will open a historic new chapter between Serbs and Albanians, after the last common ground was destroyed in the last war. Why Belgrade is making -un-answered- efforts for "cooperation" with Tirana. If Belgrade is making a internal and foreign policy designed by some bureaucrats in Brussels it will never achieve any progress. Brussels know how limited are the possibilities of the Albanians. And therefore Belgrade should now be responsible to fill the gab. And Belgrade is soo naive to follow such poisened advise.

"We can act like Greece and say that Constantinople is a Greek capital but it no longer is and they have been saying this for 100 years,” the prime minister stressed."

It speaks for Dacic and the Serb mentality to attack a position which has nothing to do with Serbia of one of the last friends of Serbia. To kiss the shoes of politicians which were happy with the bombs on Belgrade and to crtizise the freinds, what a nation, what gentle mentality...

Dacic told Thaci in Brussels Kososo belongs also to him, he was born there. Thaci answered cool, no problem, he would personal deliver to him his second citizenship-passport from Kosovo. He would have the right therefore. Dacic´s comments are really "patriotic"when he blames the Serb constitution that there is Kosovo a part of Serbia. In which country the PM would so critzise the own constitution. Little person in all meanings.

this guy is to busy worrying about kosovo and not the people, serbia is dying and the population of albanians will be more than serbs in serbia in 40 years or less and heres the news for it


http://www.kurir-info.rs/pretnja-do-2080-albanaca-ce-biti-vise-nego-srba-clanak-472672

Dacic, you have lost it all. You're completely out your mind, whatever happened to that patriot Dacic? The one who would take Kosova back by force? The one who knew how to talk to Serbian citizens before elections? I guess that was all for a show. Just to get the support you needed and then basically do what you are known to do be a traitor. You're by far the easiest Serbian politician to be bought out. Well Serbians once again, this is what you get from someone you thought has your best interest.

@Ari Gold-- hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

this is simple serbia to accept kosova as state if serbia wants
Anything from EU if the dont than what dacic said
We will be like greec end of story broke....

I wil say this serbs and alb we can say anything we want but the reality is than no one care what we say' we have to play there game what EU and US say aminnn

What happened to his position that partition was the only solution? Has that changed now? What exactly went on there in Brussels? Which sticks and carrots were shown?

“It is not a problem that Albanians do not want to live with Serbs, the problem is that they declared independence without an agreement with the state of Serbia”. Serbia is against UDI of Kosovo? So their declaration that Kosovo is a part of Serbia in the constitution without including the people that actually live there, isn't a unilateral declaration? It isn't against the UNSC resolution 1244 which states that final status must be mutually agreed by both sides? So no matter the negotiations, Kosovo was gonna be a part of Serbia according to the constitution. A constitution that the Venice Commission declared not fair to the status of Kosovo. Here is the Venice Commission opinion and read part 7 and 8:

http://www.venice.coe.int/docs/2007/CDL-AD%282007%29004-e.pdf

Dacic's words sound like words of war. “I waged a war against this (Kosovo PM Hashim) Thaci and I probably would have defeated him if there was not for the international community.” Nothing has changed in the mentality of the Serbian political elite. If it wasn't for the international community, there would not be many Albanians in Kosovo. YES, only war would bring Kosovo in Serbian control, and only IF they win and the international community would allow it, which is unlikely.

Well Dacic now that you finally have come round to the idea of Zoran Djindjic's to tackle the Kosovo issue as soon as possible, I'd have to ask why the hell you didn't speak up about this in the last 20 years when you had ample opportunity, both under your former mentor Milosevic and once he departed the political scene?

If you honestly now believe that Serbia is slowly losing the political battle for Kosovo by doing nothing then how culpable are the politics of SPS led by you for the last number of years? Where were you when Djindjic was arguing for negotitiations? - Oh yes thats right you were busy making deals with Kostunica, Kostunica whose flagship policy on Kosovo at the time was to do precisely nothing and fought Djnidjic tooth and nail in opposing negotiations and resolution of Kosovo, alongside SRS.

Dacic is making out he's smelled the coffee and together with that, issues some fighting statements about smashing Thaci, just in case his patriotic credentials are questioned by those on the political right in Serbia.

Well Dacic, you think surveys and polls give you strength in your current position concerning the EU and Kosovo and you come out with new statements. However, the people in Serbia who have for years supported dialogue with Kosovo Albanians don't believe you, because almost every speech you make is contradictory. On the other hand the more 'patriotic' block who give you support at the moment will turn against you.
You will have to take a side Dacic...

In other news President Nikolic, on the same day as meeting the US ambassador dismissed Dusan Batakovic, who some posters will remember made hardline statements supporting Serbia's right to sovereignty over Kosovo a few days ago.

Batakovic, a historian was pretty well known in the Serbian diaspora for over a decade although appointed by DS, was admired by Serbian nationalists. His views were much closer to DSS and SRS on Kosovo.

Anyway it appears that Dacic and Nikolic are working in tandem on the Kosovo issue, removing opposition to talks etc within their own ranks.

Whilst traditional right wingers are celebrating internal problems within DS, there is no serious opposition to whatever the government proposes right now. And what with the right wing element usually happy to take to the streets against the 'yellows', Dacic and Nikolic think they have a free hand - and at the beginning of their mandate they may well be right...

Not all countries which have not recognized Kosovo are friends of Serbia, these countries are following their own interests to do so. Its the wrong understanding of Serbs "we all are friends", possibly this is so in Kindergarten but not in real live, states have no friends, they ahve interests.