Czech Republic recognizes Kosovo

The large majority of Czechs are either against or indifferent to the existence Kosovo as a sovereign state.However,the Czech government wants visa free travel with the US and this is the main reason it has chosen to go ahead and recognize something which is irrelevant to the Czech people.This goes to show that states have interests and not really friends.The Czechs have much more in common with Serbs than with Albanians or even Germans for that matter but this does not prevent them from being in an econmoic union with the latter because it is in Czechia's INTEREST to do so.Furthermore,the Czechs are eager to have a place to deport the Albanian criminals and illegal aliens who are causing a lot of fear and crime in Prague and want to prevent Czech girls from being trafficed by the Albanian pimps.Is it true that I heard I could buy a woman for 3k euros from Albanian pimps in Europe?INCREDIBLE

I just wanna say SORRY! It is just another stupid thing our stupid goverment made. Absolute majority of people in Czech according to all polls are on the part of Serbia and we all have to be ashamed of what our goverment made.

Oh Wow, look. The Albanians are all here celebrating alone.

So when exactly are you guys going to achieve independence?

Whether it's Czechs or Saudis or Micronesians, no one really cares for this pretend story anymore. Recognition under extreme pressure has to be the most unnatural thing and my sympathies go out to the Czech government and people.

Tens of thousands of Albanians are claiming political asylum in Western countries(mainly the ones who have recognized the UDI)claiming Serb oppression.If these countries recognize Kosovo independence then the government in Pristina is forced to accept them back even though all of the asylum seekers prefer life anywhere but Kosovo.Furthermore,there are thousands of Albanian criminals due to be released from Western jails and ready for deportation back to an independent Kosovo and not into Serb jails.Czech women volunteer to be raped beaten and sold by Albanian pimps like the cases in Britain recently?Does this comment deserve a response?

Thank you, Czech Republic, for recognizing the independence of Europe's newest state: Kosova.

I trust that you will soon be followed by Macedonia and Montenegro.

I think its time to reopen the question of the Sudetenland.

Portugal is next. little later is Greece.
(Maks, 21 May 2008 18:33)
Dear Maks,
Who told you that? Are you reading Portuguese newspapers? Do you live in Portugal? As a Portuguese, I’ll be ashamed on the recognition of that “delinquent state” by my country.

As Serbia's delegation walks out from international meetings, more states like Czech Rep. recognizes Kosovo. Serbian tax payers send their elected people to bring prosperity and they bring isolations. It's a sad story!

The Czech government also just approved a U.S. missile base on its territory. It is kowtowing to all U.S. demands today it seems.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/21/europe/EU-GEN-Czech-Missile-Defense.php

"PRAGUE, Czech Republic: The Czech Republic has formally approved a deal to allow the U.S. to place parts of a missile defense system on Czech territory, officials said Wednesday."

thank you Czech Republic!!!

Bingo!
There was never a doubt about the Czechs.

Thank you Česká.

Thank you Czech Republic!
I understand the ex-communist bolshevic, filo-soviet pressure, but finaly the democracy and freedom preveil.

More to come and the big is after June 15.

What to say to Czech government and its decision? It is a SHAME and more than 80 % of population is against this step! Knowing the situation on the ground the whole Europe will regret this blind policy. It is a disappointment for all Czech people and once again sorry to SERBIA and especially to all Serbs on Kosovo territory.
Brezovica

im glad ´I must say´!

Thank you Czech Republic. Even though you dragged your feet, the democracy prevailed. You can rest assured that this was a good decision on your part.

Prague wants to prevent Czech girls from being trafficked by the Albanian pimps. Is it true that I heard I could buy a woman for 3k Euros from Albanian pimps in Europe? INCREDIBLE.
(luciano, 21 May 2008 19:40)

Prague wants to prevent Czech girls from being trafficked by Albanian pimps?!!!!! … by recognizing Kosovo? How that can happen? If girls want to be trafficked what government can do about it? Do those governments of those countries have to recognize Kosovo to solve that “emigration” problem? Your argument is very week.
I think that you offended either Czech government or Czech girls. Neither one deserves this, and has anything with Kosovo. Kosovo is a reality and if you protect or not some self-employed prostitutes has nothing to do with foreign politic.

Thank you Czech Republic!

Now formally recognized by 41 UN countries

Portugal is next. little later is Greece.

Cheshka recognising, its sad! However there is some good in this. Now the so-called Albanian asylum-seekers and their criminal tendencies will be shipped off to Kosovo but the plus is that they wont be going to the North. They will reside with their remaining bretheren and fight it out for control of the turf. Naturally in the process, "the protectorate" will further descend into chaos. I just can't wait for regular potshots at NATO troops. The 'liberated' always turn on their 'liberators'

Needless to say i won't be buying the skoda until the decision is reversed. Do the Spaniards make a car?

This is another victory for Kosova state. But still we (albanians) are not satisfied yet until we can on board important countries like Uzbekistan,Kazakhistan,Kyrgyzstan etc who still refuse the indipendence :)

15 mins after they recognized I found out. It was a good feeling inside.

Re: #17

It's pathetic how predictable this is becoming! Some facetious entity will inevitably resort to offensive generalizations! But luciano, to try and capitalize using such a tragic issue for such an unrelated debate is very low indeed!

Attaching national, racial, religious or ethnic exclusivity to crime is naïve at best and malicious at worst.

Albanian crime clans are “good at what they do” but they’re certainly not the only ones. How do you think they purchase (apologies for the awful choice of words) their slaves so someone in Western Europe can buy them for €3k? You probably have a good idea about that too, but you’re not really interested in a well-meaning debate on trafficking and prostitution. All you’re interested in is depicting Albanians as pimps and criminals in a completely different debate, conveniently focusing on only one stage of this horrible process.

If you were genuinely interested on this issue, you would have not ignored the fact that these poor victims are generally bought for less than €3k from the native (Czech, Ukrainian, Moldovan, Lithuanian…) pimps / traffickers, who in turn threaten these poor girls’ families if they don’t do as they’re told. You also conveniently avoid the fact that modern slave trading would have not been such a big problem if there wasn’t a demand for it by the paying customers in these girls’ final destinations.

INCREDIBLE indeed!

thank you czech republic for recognizing the republic of kosovo!!!

I wonder how much more time will serbian ppl need to realize that not only they lost Kosova but they are manipulating with the will of their ppl who only want a better life and not a confrontation with the world.

ZK, UK

will you be anytime soon reasonable to comment really as the things are or we will hear continually from you the same stories about the "extreme pressures" etc. As a sympathizer of extremist & radicals you have possibility now to comment the statements of Seselj about killing of ex PM Dindic. I am sure that as always you will find a reason/explanation why Seselj(Serb)is right and the others wrong.Ironically his partx is going to govern Serbia soon. Bad News...

Just wondring why did it take so long for Czech Rep. Another jobless ambassador... Walking out and leaving is no solution. The absents are never right!

I would like to apologise for a decision of czech republic about indipendence of KOsovo!!!Our goverment dont know whats doing.I think and no less than half inhabitants of CZ thinks that KOsovo is part of the Serbia!!!and new indipendent kosovo is only one big teroristic organization who pull out serbian people from their home..

Well how can you blame them..behind closed doors america probobly told them, "if you do not recognize our Kosovo project then we will bomb you to the stone age with depleted uranium and we will blast propaganda on cnn and bbc about how czech rep. is harboring al-qaeda terrorists etc." Then they also told them, "if you don't allow us to install our missile defense shield in your country, then we will also bomb your country back to the stone age using delpeted uranium, so we can poison your next generation of citizens, and so your children will be born with lieukemia"

i think we have now one more les serb ambassador!!!

No doubt: the bloodthirsty Aztec Pigeon-Snake God Quetzalcoatl is NOT welcome in Czech Republic. Politics is politics. There is zero friendship in Czech Republic with Quetzalcoatl's butcherers.

Otherwise: feel free to travel to Prague and enjoy the "welcome"... if you can get visa, that is.

BTW: have no idea why, but the number of approved U.S. visas pro number of applications is much higher in Belgrade than in Tirana. So much about the reality of American friendship. Good news: Albanians do not need a visa in order to go to the bathroom (yet). Thank you, bathroom!

I am so pleased by this development that i won't even complain about the usual anti-albanian hate speech (those albanian pimps, bla bla bla) or the way b92 phrases the story, like a typical nationalist media outlet (the UDI of the albanians...) you know it is true and may god strike me down this minute if i am lying!)

as i wrote a few days ago, most czechs have a basic and visceral understanding of the value of democracy and independence, sandwiched as they have been by the soviet communists and nazis... so many war crimes in that land which will never come to light and be adjudicated, but that is someone else's responsibility, i am a bit too busy.

thank you, czech republic, thank you prague, you are beautiful, you are beloved, and when i finally enter your lovely land i shall have a most wonderful time.

thank you to all of our frnds and allies, and to people around the world. we all have more in common than we admit to... and we exaggerate the differences.

xxxx peace,
roberto from frisco

Sergei, I agree with you. Why not talking about the Sudeten? In fact the division of former Yugoslavia and specially of Serbia mutilated in favor of greater Albania that emerges more and more clear today is similar to the division of Balkans which happened in 1941... It requires to be completed only the division of Macedonia in the Albanian and the Slav parts...

P.S. maybe now the Czech company that is bidding for the Albanian oil refinery AMRO will be in better positions?

Or maybe it was the genuine "concerns" of infringement of international law that delayed the recognition?

The Czech PM was in visit in Tirana 2-3 weeks ago.. just reckoning... nothing for free a???

(luciano, 21 May 2008 23:45)

you are killing me- and the ppl shoulkd belive you- sure no conflicts of interest;)))

why so much hate??? the ppl that live in Kosova want to be self-governed. What's there to hate for? ;))

tung: Brezovica- nice post. Pay attention, Brezovica is the only Serbian enclave in teh Albanian Alps. It's a turistic place visited by thousand tourists in winter- overwhelm majority of Albanians. There has never been any incident or aggression on Serbs there- actually they are making a lot of money.

So Serbian propaganda how do you explain this??? I think some czech Ministers were skiing there- and the result is the recognition

Ok, both of you guys; the Checks
and Albanians,we leave you to celebrate your progressive brand-new friendship.
How democratic is that!
I think about a half of the world is going to puke.

I fear for Serbia that, in the next future, to be recognized will be a problem for the Serbian government and not for Kosovoa.

I am really sad about this, it shows that Checzh politicians (not people) really doesn't have any soul at all.
Have they forgot what the Nazis did to them by occupying the Sudentenland in 1938??? Now exactly 70 years later they are doing the same to Serbia, SHAME ON YOU Checzh politicians!

I'm tired of this pressure story, i really belived that serbian people were more wise not to belive this kind of thing's, why they lie themselfs,.

Portugal is next. little later is Greece.
(Maks, 21 May 2008 18:33)
Dear Maks,
Who told you that? Are you reading Portuguese newspapers? Do you live in Portugal? As a Portuguese, I’ll be ashamed on the recognition of that “delinquent state” by my country.
(Carlos, Portugal, 22 May 2008 12:17)

Well, I have been reading Portuguese newspapers. It's true that most readers providing comments to news about Kosovo are indeed against Kosovar independence. But I also note that most commentators demonstrate very poor, if any, knowledge of the circumstances that led to Kosovo's independence. As a Portuguese who's followed this issue for years, I clearly see Kosovo's independence as the only solution for a situation that, if it depended on Serbia, would remain unsolved for eternity. Besides, Serbia missed its opportunity to negotiate the partition of Kosovo and keep Serb-majority areas. By refusing to let go a single inch of Kosovo, Serbs lost it all. Quite a lesson that is yet to be learned by Serbia. I will enthusiastically welcome Portugal's decision to recognize Kosovo as an independent state.

Maybe it is a signal to the political forces in Serbia. Maybe not all the countries recognized the independence from the beginning in order to try to influence Serbian politics. Maybe the arab countries or the spanish countries recognitions are being delayed on purpose.
Or maybe the conspirative mindset of some commenters here got me.

Luciano, if you deport criminals from prison to their country, they will be back in your country in two weeks, it would be like freeing them. You should protest with your police about criminals or with the Albanian or Kosovo embassy if they are Albanian.

it looks like anglo-serbian predictions here around were falsificated once again, dear ljUDI in the west. now the ring is open for a Czech Republic bashing ... and next predictions : ))

Why?

“Serbia immediately annulled it, and considers it illegal.”

This is really ridiculous!!! How can Serbia annul an act of an independent country such as Czech Republic? What is Serbia representing in the world? Is Serbia master of masters???

(luciano, 21 May 2008 19:40)

Look who's talking

RE: Failure to learn from recent History.

Czechoslovakia was ripped apart in 1938 by Hitler and his henchman while England, France, et al idly watched.

It is disgraceful, disgusting that the current Czech government is witnessing the rape of Kosovo from Serbia and based on their history would yield to American and European pressure to regonize a false state. Prime Minister Benes who bravely stood up againt Hitler must be turning in his grave and the current political government has brought shame to the Czech people.

It is ironic that Slovakia sided with Admiral Horthy of Hungary and Adolf Hitler in breaking away from Czechoslovakia in 1938 but today will not support the illegal state of Kosovo. At least Slovakian people and government have learned the lessons of the past.

Well, I have been reading Portuguese newspapers. It's true that most readers providing comments to news about Kosovo are indeed against Kosovar independence. But I also note that most commentators demonstrate very poor, if any, knowledge of the circumstances that led to Kosovo's independence. As a Portuguese who's followed this issue for years, I clearly see Kosovo's independence as the only solution for a situation that, if it depended on Serbia, would remain unsolved for eternity. Besides, Serbia missed its opportunity to negotiate the partition of Kosovo and keep Serb-majority areas. By refusing to let go a single inch of Kosovo, Serbs lost it all. Quite a lesson that is yet to be learned by Serbia. I will enthusiastically welcome Portugal's decision to recognize Kosovo as an independent state.
(Johnny, 23 May 2008 04:03)
Johnny,
You have a very typical Portuguese name! I’m sure you are not reading the right newspapers! Maybe you have been reading Correio da Manhã or 24 Horas… Since I know very well the Balkans, believe me the main newspapers have commentators with very deep knowledge about the region.
Carlos, Portugal

To Carlos, the Portuguese who knows Balkans so well and is against the UDI:
I have tried, unsuccessfully, to draw attention to two critical facts regarding the Kosova question:
1-for the first time in the history Kosova figured inside the political map of the Serbian state in 1912 and never before;
2- Until 1912 Serbia had its General Consulate in Pristina.

If the above is true and nobody (as of today)can prove it's a wrong statement, isn't it the right time for Serbia to RE-OPEN the GENERAL CONSULATE or better its Embassy in Pristina???

The large majority of Czechs are either against or indifferent to the existence Kosovo as a sovereign state.However,the Czech government wants visa free travel with the US and this is the main reason it has chosen to go ahead and recognize something which is irrelevant to the Czech people.This goes to show that states have interests and not really friends.The Czechs have much more in common with Serbs than with Albanians or even Germans for that matter but this does not prevent them from being in an econmoic union with the latter because it is in Czechia's INTEREST to do so.Furthermore,the Czechs are eager to have a place to deport the Albanian criminals and illegal aliens who are causing a lot of fear and crime in Prague and want to prevent Czech girls from being trafficed by the Albanian pimps.Is it true that I heard I could buy a woman for 3k euros from Albanian pimps in Europe?INCREDIBLE

I just wanna say SORRY! It is just another stupid thing our stupid goverment made. Absolute majority of people in Czech according to all polls are on the part of Serbia and we all have to be ashamed of what our goverment made.

Tens of thousands of Albanians are claiming political asylum in Western countries(mainly the ones who have recognized the UDI)claiming Serb oppression.If these countries recognize Kosovo independence then the government in Pristina is forced to accept them back even though all of the asylum seekers prefer life anywhere but Kosovo.Furthermore,there are thousands of Albanian criminals due to be released from Western jails and ready for deportation back to an independent Kosovo and not into Serb jails.Czech women volunteer to be raped beaten and sold by Albanian pimps like the cases in Britain recently?Does this comment deserve a response?

Thank you, Czech Republic, for recognizing the independence of Europe's newest state: Kosova.

I trust that you will soon be followed by Macedonia and Montenegro.

thank you Czech Republic!!!

im glad ´I must say´!

Thank you Czech Republic!
I understand the ex-communist bolshevic, filo-soviet pressure, but finaly the democracy and freedom preveil.

More to come and the big is after June 15.

Thank you Czech Republic. Even though you dragged your feet, the democracy prevailed. You can rest assured that this was a good decision on your part.

Prague wants to prevent Czech girls from being trafficked by the Albanian pimps. Is it true that I heard I could buy a woman for 3k Euros from Albanian pimps in Europe? INCREDIBLE.
(luciano, 21 May 2008 19:40)

Prague wants to prevent Czech girls from being trafficked by Albanian pimps?!!!!! … by recognizing Kosovo? How that can happen? If girls want to be trafficked what government can do about it? Do those governments of those countries have to recognize Kosovo to solve that “emigration” problem? Your argument is very week.
I think that you offended either Czech government or Czech girls. Neither one deserves this, and has anything with Kosovo. Kosovo is a reality and if you protect or not some self-employed prostitutes has nothing to do with foreign politic.

Thank you Česká.

Thank you Czech Republic!

Now formally recognized by 41 UN countries

Bingo!
There was never a doubt about the Czechs.

Portugal is next. little later is Greece.

I wonder how much more time will serbian ppl need to realize that not only they lost Kosova but they are manipulating with the will of their ppl who only want a better life and not a confrontation with the world.

No doubt: the bloodthirsty Aztec Pigeon-Snake God Quetzalcoatl is NOT welcome in Czech Republic. Politics is politics. There is zero friendship in Czech Republic with Quetzalcoatl's butcherers.

Otherwise: feel free to travel to Prague and enjoy the "welcome"... if you can get visa, that is.

BTW: have no idea why, but the number of approved U.S. visas pro number of applications is much higher in Belgrade than in Tirana. So much about the reality of American friendship. Good news: Albanians do not need a visa in order to go to the bathroom (yet). Thank you, bathroom!

I would like to apologise for a decision of czech republic about indipendence of KOsovo!!!Our goverment dont know whats doing.I think and no less than half inhabitants of CZ thinks that KOsovo is part of the Serbia!!!and new indipendent kosovo is only one big teroristic organization who pull out serbian people from their home..

As Serbia's delegation walks out from international meetings, more states like Czech Rep. recognizes Kosovo. Serbian tax payers send their elected people to bring prosperity and they bring isolations. It's a sad story!

ZK, UK

will you be anytime soon reasonable to comment really as the things are or we will hear continually from you the same stories about the "extreme pressures" etc. As a sympathizer of extremist & radicals you have possibility now to comment the statements of Seselj about killing of ex PM Dindic. I am sure that as always you will find a reason/explanation why Seselj(Serb)is right and the others wrong.Ironically his partx is going to govern Serbia soon. Bad News...

What to say to Czech government and its decision? It is a SHAME and more than 80 % of population is against this step! Knowing the situation on the ground the whole Europe will regret this blind policy. It is a disappointment for all Czech people and once again sorry to SERBIA and especially to all Serbs on Kosovo territory.
Brezovica

(luciano, 21 May 2008 23:45)

you are killing me- and the ppl shoulkd belive you- sure no conflicts of interest;)))

why so much hate??? the ppl that live in Kosova want to be self-governed. What's there to hate for? ;))

tung: Brezovica- nice post. Pay attention, Brezovica is the only Serbian enclave in teh Albanian Alps. It's a turistic place visited by thousand tourists in winter- overwhelm majority of Albanians. There has never been any incident or aggression on Serbs there- actually they are making a lot of money.

So Serbian propaganda how do you explain this??? I think some czech Ministers were skiing there- and the result is the recognition

“Serbia immediately annulled it, and considers it illegal.”

This is really ridiculous!!! How can Serbia annul an act of an independent country such as Czech Republic? What is Serbia representing in the world? Is Serbia master of masters???

This is another victory for Kosova state. But still we (albanians) are not satisfied yet until we can on board important countries like Uzbekistan,Kazakhistan,Kyrgyzstan etc who still refuse the indipendence :)

thank you czech republic for recognizing the republic of kosovo!!!

it looks like anglo-serbian predictions here around were falsificated once again, dear ljUDI in the west. now the ring is open for a Czech Republic bashing ... and next predictions : ))

I'm tired of this pressure story, i really belived that serbian people were more wise not to belive this kind of thing's, why they lie themselfs,.

Portugal is next. little later is Greece.
(Maks, 21 May 2008 18:33)
Dear Maks,
Who told you that? Are you reading Portuguese newspapers? Do you live in Portugal? As a Portuguese, I’ll be ashamed on the recognition of that “delinquent state” by my country.

Portugal is next. little later is Greece.
(Maks, 21 May 2008 18:33)
Dear Maks,
Who told you that? Are you reading Portuguese newspapers? Do you live in Portugal? As a Portuguese, I’ll be ashamed on the recognition of that “delinquent state” by my country.
(Carlos, Portugal, 22 May 2008 12:17)

Well, I have been reading Portuguese newspapers. It's true that most readers providing comments to news about Kosovo are indeed against Kosovar independence. But I also note that most commentators demonstrate very poor, if any, knowledge of the circumstances that led to Kosovo's independence. As a Portuguese who's followed this issue for years, I clearly see Kosovo's independence as the only solution for a situation that, if it depended on Serbia, would remain unsolved for eternity. Besides, Serbia missed its opportunity to negotiate the partition of Kosovo and keep Serb-majority areas. By refusing to let go a single inch of Kosovo, Serbs lost it all. Quite a lesson that is yet to be learned by Serbia. I will enthusiastically welcome Portugal's decision to recognize Kosovo as an independent state.

Just wondring why did it take so long for Czech Rep. Another jobless ambassador... Walking out and leaving is no solution. The absents are never right!

i think we have now one more les serb ambassador!!!

P.S. maybe now the Czech company that is bidding for the Albanian oil refinery AMRO will be in better positions?

Or maybe it was the genuine "concerns" of infringement of international law that delayed the recognition?

The Czech PM was in visit in Tirana 2-3 weeks ago.. just reckoning... nothing for free a???

Oh Wow, look. The Albanians are all here celebrating alone.

So when exactly are you guys going to achieve independence?

Whether it's Czechs or Saudis or Micronesians, no one really cares for this pretend story anymore. Recognition under extreme pressure has to be the most unnatural thing and my sympathies go out to the Czech government and people.

I am so pleased by this development that i won't even complain about the usual anti-albanian hate speech (those albanian pimps, bla bla bla) or the way b92 phrases the story, like a typical nationalist media outlet (the UDI of the albanians...) you know it is true and may god strike me down this minute if i am lying!)

as i wrote a few days ago, most czechs have a basic and visceral understanding of the value of democracy and independence, sandwiched as they have been by the soviet communists and nazis... so many war crimes in that land which will never come to light and be adjudicated, but that is someone else's responsibility, i am a bit too busy.

thank you, czech republic, thank you prague, you are beautiful, you are beloved, and when i finally enter your lovely land i shall have a most wonderful time.

thank you to all of our frnds and allies, and to people around the world. we all have more in common than we admit to... and we exaggerate the differences.

xxxx peace,
roberto from frisco

Cheshka recognising, its sad! However there is some good in this. Now the so-called Albanian asylum-seekers and their criminal tendencies will be shipped off to Kosovo but the plus is that they wont be going to the North. They will reside with their remaining bretheren and fight it out for control of the turf. Naturally in the process, "the protectorate" will further descend into chaos. I just can't wait for regular potshots at NATO troops. The 'liberated' always turn on their 'liberators'

Needless to say i won't be buying the skoda until the decision is reversed. Do the Spaniards make a car?

I think its time to reopen the question of the Sudetenland.

The Czech government also just approved a U.S. missile base on its territory. It is kowtowing to all U.S. demands today it seems.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/21/europe/EU-GEN-Czech-Missile-Defense.php

"PRAGUE, Czech Republic: The Czech Republic has formally approved a deal to allow the U.S. to place parts of a missile defense system on Czech territory, officials said Wednesday."

15 mins after they recognized I found out. It was a good feeling inside.

Ok, both of you guys; the Checks
and Albanians,we leave you to celebrate your progressive brand-new friendship.
How democratic is that!
I think about a half of the world is going to puke.

Re: #17

It's pathetic how predictable this is becoming! Some facetious entity will inevitably resort to offensive generalizations! But luciano, to try and capitalize using such a tragic issue for such an unrelated debate is very low indeed!

Attaching national, racial, religious or ethnic exclusivity to crime is naïve at best and malicious at worst.

Albanian crime clans are “good at what they do” but they’re certainly not the only ones. How do you think they purchase (apologies for the awful choice of words) their slaves so someone in Western Europe can buy them for €3k? You probably have a good idea about that too, but you’re not really interested in a well-meaning debate on trafficking and prostitution. All you’re interested in is depicting Albanians as pimps and criminals in a completely different debate, conveniently focusing on only one stage of this horrible process.

If you were genuinely interested on this issue, you would have not ignored the fact that these poor victims are generally bought for less than €3k from the native (Czech, Ukrainian, Moldovan, Lithuanian…) pimps / traffickers, who in turn threaten these poor girls’ families if they don’t do as they’re told. You also conveniently avoid the fact that modern slave trading would have not been such a big problem if there wasn’t a demand for it by the paying customers in these girls’ final destinations.

INCREDIBLE indeed!

Why?

(luciano, 21 May 2008 19:40)

Look who's talking

Sergei, I agree with you. Why not talking about the Sudeten? In fact the division of former Yugoslavia and specially of Serbia mutilated in favor of greater Albania that emerges more and more clear today is similar to the division of Balkans which happened in 1941... It requires to be completed only the division of Macedonia in the Albanian and the Slav parts...

I am really sad about this, it shows that Checzh politicians (not people) really doesn't have any soul at all.
Have they forgot what the Nazis did to them by occupying the Sudentenland in 1938??? Now exactly 70 years later they are doing the same to Serbia, SHAME ON YOU Checzh politicians!

Well, I have been reading Portuguese newspapers. It's true that most readers providing comments to news about Kosovo are indeed against Kosovar independence. But I also note that most commentators demonstrate very poor, if any, knowledge of the circumstances that led to Kosovo's independence. As a Portuguese who's followed this issue for years, I clearly see Kosovo's independence as the only solution for a situation that, if it depended on Serbia, would remain unsolved for eternity. Besides, Serbia missed its opportunity to negotiate the partition of Kosovo and keep Serb-majority areas. By refusing to let go a single inch of Kosovo, Serbs lost it all. Quite a lesson that is yet to be learned by Serbia. I will enthusiastically welcome Portugal's decision to recognize Kosovo as an independent state.
(Johnny, 23 May 2008 04:03)
Johnny,
You have a very typical Portuguese name! I’m sure you are not reading the right newspapers! Maybe you have been reading Correio da Manhã or 24 Horas… Since I know very well the Balkans, believe me the main newspapers have commentators with very deep knowledge about the region.
Carlos, Portugal

I fear for Serbia that, in the next future, to be recognized will be a problem for the Serbian government and not for Kosovoa.

Well how can you blame them..behind closed doors america probobly told them, "if you do not recognize our Kosovo project then we will bomb you to the stone age with depleted uranium and we will blast propaganda on cnn and bbc about how czech rep. is harboring al-qaeda terrorists etc." Then they also told them, "if you don't allow us to install our missile defense shield in your country, then we will also bomb your country back to the stone age using delpeted uranium, so we can poison your next generation of citizens, and so your children will be born with lieukemia"

Maybe it is a signal to the political forces in Serbia. Maybe not all the countries recognized the independence from the beginning in order to try to influence Serbian politics. Maybe the arab countries or the spanish countries recognitions are being delayed on purpose.
Or maybe the conspirative mindset of some commenters here got me.

Luciano, if you deport criminals from prison to their country, they will be back in your country in two weeks, it would be like freeing them. You should protest with your police about criminals or with the Albanian or Kosovo embassy if they are Albanian.

RE: Failure to learn from recent History.

Czechoslovakia was ripped apart in 1938 by Hitler and his henchman while England, France, et al idly watched.

It is disgraceful, disgusting that the current Czech government is witnessing the rape of Kosovo from Serbia and based on their history would yield to American and European pressure to regonize a false state. Prime Minister Benes who bravely stood up againt Hitler must be turning in his grave and the current political government has brought shame to the Czech people.

It is ironic that Slovakia sided with Admiral Horthy of Hungary and Adolf Hitler in breaking away from Czechoslovakia in 1938 but today will not support the illegal state of Kosovo. At least Slovakian people and government have learned the lessons of the past.

To Carlos, the Portuguese who knows Balkans so well and is against the UDI:
I have tried, unsuccessfully, to draw attention to two critical facts regarding the Kosova question:
1-for the first time in the history Kosova figured inside the political map of the Serbian state in 1912 and never before;
2- Until 1912 Serbia had its General Consulate in Pristina.

If the above is true and nobody (as of today)can prove it's a wrong statement, isn't it the right time for Serbia to RE-OPEN the GENERAL CONSULATE or better its Embassy in Pristina???