lowe
pre 15 godina
"Kosovo had a high autonomy until 1989. It was forcibly revoced by Serbia. From 1989-1999 the Serbian Kosovo was governed through military measures. In 1999 the Serbian administratino was removed and Kosovo was governed from UN. It can't return under Serbian administration.
That makes it a special case.
About the K-Serbs: they can't secede because the internal borders of ex-Yugo can't change. If they secede, than also the Valley Albanians should join Kosovo, don't you agree? And then also the Albaians in Macedonia and Montenegro, Serbs and Croats in Bosnia, Moslems in Sandjak, Hungarians in Vojvodina will have the right to secede, right?
The K-Serbs can pretend to secede if Kosovo anuls the Ahtisaari provisions, centralizes the state and abolishes their wide-extended autonomy.
Bottom line: no one has to gain anything from K-Serb secesion, Serbia at the least.
(genc, 17 February 2009 14:06)"
Nobody should be allowed to secede without a state's consent. Otherwise it makes a complete mockery of international law and state sovereignty. This should apply to everyone -- K-Serbs, K-Albanians, "Valley" Albanians, American Indians, Greenland Eskimos, Cyprus etc etc. But when you chose to give one group secession privileges and not others, double standards invariably creeps in. I had thought Belgrade's offer of maximum and monitored autonomy to the K-Albanians as being very reasonable. And if despite this, the K-Albanians should choose to secede from their state of Serbia, then natural justice requires them to allow the K-Serbs to detach their parts of Kosovo from Prisina.
The K-Serbs won't benefit by joining their parts of Kosovo to Serbia? Why don't you ask them and let them decide? I will bet you an overwhelming majority of them will vote that they are better off in Belgrade's embrace.
And why are Kosovo's borders so sacred that they can't change while those of Serbia (within which Kosovo is a province) can? Again double standards.
The K-Serbs don't need to pretend to secede. There is already a de facto partition at the Ibar. Pristina never ruled that part of Kosovo period. Since you talk about pretence, it would seem to me that it is actually Prisitina that is pretending to rule over the north.
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