Warsaw: Gov't recognizes Kosovo, president against

Poland has today recognized the Kosovo Albanians' unilaterally declared independence.

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Tuesday, 26.02.2008.

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Poland has today recognized the Kosovo Albanians' unilaterally declared independence. Poland is the 19th country to do so, despite warnings from Serbia that such recognitions, just as the declaration itself, are illegal, and violating the country's sovereign borders. Warsaw: Gov't recognizes Kosovo, president against Belgrade is now expected to do the same it has done with previous recognitions, i.e., send a protest note and order its ambassador home. Despite the opposition to the idea in the Polish political establishment and public, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski have decided to stand with their key allies, the U.S., and those countries within the EU who advocate Kosovo' independence, the Polish media report. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana was in Warsaw last week to discuss Kosovo with the country's leadership. But Poland now hopes that Serbia will still view it as a "friend and EU integration advocate", despite the recognition of its province as an independent state. President Lech Kaczynski was expressly against the move, saying that it set a "dangerous precedent". Late last week, papers in Warsaw quoted high officials as saying, "despite everything, we'll swallow that frog", and adding that the Kosovo recognition will happen as "there is no other way out", in bids to "harmonize the approach with the U.S. and EU". Gazeta Wyborcha daily also last week published notes from a Polish Senate Foreign Policy Committee session in May 2007. Sikorski, then a senator, sent strong warnings about a lack of any guarantees for the safety of the Serbs in Kosovo, while there is a "threat that an Islamic state will be born in Europe fueled by Wahhabi money". "We have applied the bad Bosnia model to Kosovo, where Serbs were the aggressor while Muslims defended themselves. That model in not appropriate for Kosovo," he said at the time. Sikorski visited Kosovo prior to making these statements, where, according to his testimony, he saw rows of burned Serb homes, with gold-domed mosques, built from the Saudi Wahhabi money, right next to them. "What are the guarantees that the beautiful monuments of the Christian history in the Serb enclaves will not at one point be destroyed, that someone will protects them," Sikorski wondered.

Warsaw: Gov't recognizes Kosovo, president against

Belgrade is now expected to do the same it has done with previous recognitions, i.e., send a protest note and order its ambassador home.

Despite the opposition to the idea in the Polish political establishment and public, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski have decided to stand with their key allies, the U.S., and those countries within the EU who advocate Kosovo' independence, the Polish media report.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana was in Warsaw last week to discuss Kosovo with the country's leadership.

But Poland now hopes that Serbia will still view it as a "friend and EU integration advocate", despite the recognition of its province as an independent state.

President Lech Kaczynski was expressly against the move, saying that it set a "dangerous precedent".

Late last week, papers in Warsaw quoted high officials as saying, "despite everything, we'll swallow that frog", and adding that the Kosovo recognition will happen as "there is no other way out", in bids to "harmonize the approach with the U.S. and EU".

Gazeta Wyborcha daily also last week published notes from a Polish Senate Foreign Policy Committee session in May 2007.

Sikorski, then a senator, sent strong warnings about a lack of any guarantees for the safety of the Serbs in Kosovo, while there is a "threat that an Islamic state will be born in Europe fueled by Wahhabi money".

"We have applied the bad Bosnia model to Kosovo, where Serbs were the aggressor while Muslims defended themselves. That model in not appropriate for Kosovo," he said at the time.

Sikorski visited Kosovo prior to making these statements, where, according to his testimony, he saw rows of burned Serb homes, with gold-domed mosques, built from the Saudi Wahhabi money, right next to them.

"What are the guarantees that the beautiful monuments of the Christian history in the Serb enclaves will not at one point be destroyed, that someone will protects them," Sikorski wondered.

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