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Thursday, 19.03.2015.

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U.S. ambassador: We were right to impose sanctions on Serbia

U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Michael Kirby has said that there was "pressure" on Serbia to join western sanctions against Russia.

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mijo

pre 9 godina

US AMBASADOR COULD BE "PERSONA NON GRATA"! Nobody in THE WORLD USE THIS LANGUAGE TO SAY TO OUR PRESIDENT!
DIRTY POLITICIAN SHOWS WHAT US THINK ABOUT SERBIA!

ItalianoAmericano

pre 9 godina

The rise of China can only go so far. Their economy depends on American consumers with no one with near the purchasing power to take over if we go away. As long as America is around to buy crap. China will prosper. So dont go beating your fists too much about how China is going to take over the world.

sj

pre 9 godina

you have been arguing for the rise of China for the last couple of years? I'd keep that quiet if I were you, the rise of China has been a well known fact the past 20 years, if this has only hit you in the past 2 years, its nothing to brag about. it only goes to highlight your stupidity more
(Nikolle, 20 March 2015 12:09)

You are a very recent interloper on B92, but I have posted since 2008. Right after the GFC whenever I mentioned China, the response was incredible from your lot. China was not supposed to take over from the US for another 40/50years, but thanks to George Bush and his spending the US is stuffed big time. Most others knew that China was on the rise except for the Albanians. That’s why I mentioned this fact.

icj1

pre 9 godina

Of course Russia didn't stop bombing because president at that time was pro west puppet Yeltsin.
(Smucar Car, 21 March 2015 04:18)

Well, Yeltsin, Putin or whoever will be the next ruler of Russia will not start a nuclear was and risk Russia's annihilation for something as insignificant as Serbia.

But, Yeltsin, did send Russian troops to Kosovo; whereas Putin withdrew them. Facts speak clear and loud :) But many Serbs like the words more lol

John Bosnitch

pre 9 godina

Kirby: "As for media freedom, he said he knew it was viewed as 'a major problem,' but that he himself was not up to date with the issue, because, as he noted, he is a diplomat. "

Of course when it is a problem for which he is directly responsible, Kirby claims to be just a "diplomat". This man has far overstepped the bounds of his diplomatic function in this country by spending most of his time meddling in the internal affairs of the host nation (Serbia). What US Occupation Governor Kirby does in Serbia has nothing to do with "diplomacy," unless, of course, we are just talking about typical Anglo-American *gunboat* diplomacy.

Smucar Car

pre 9 godina

Of course Russia didn't stop bombing because president at that time was pro west puppet Yeltsin. Also for the moral value of Mr. Ambassador whatever his name is, lets reverse things and look from this perspective. Assume Serbia bombed US over some internal political issue. Then put sanctions on US and starve them to death. Then support Al Kaida in terrorist attempts against US people, and then after years have passed Serbian ambassador to US say sorry, but I think we did right thing. My questions are: 1 How could some person or government be such a cynical without any moral values or concerns and; 2. What would US do in this case. They put Cuba on black terrorist list for 35 years just for kicking them out from their own country, and they US are not terrorists, yet they tried to kill Castro numerous times. So dear US ambassador to Serbia whatever your name is: Ne rise!

Reader

pre 9 godina

Yes, the sanctions on Milosevic's Serbia were right. Its exclusion from the UN too.

The ambassador is not being diplomatic though if he says: "But we believe that we made the right decision when we introduced sanctions against you,". He needs to make the distinction between what kind of country Serbia was back then and what kind of country it pretends to be now. Not just say against "you" but against "Milosevic's regime". Or were his words changed by the journalists?

njegos

pre 9 godina

Nikolle - Where have you been? For a time you were all over this board spewing your jibberish. Then interestingly, you disappeared at the time your fellow Kosovar Albanians were cramming themselves onto buses to get out of that Albanian-run hell-hole. Perhaps you were one of them. Are you now writing from Germany or Austria or Hungary or Serbia? Or did you remain in your drug-running, corrupt criminally-run Kosovo? Please tell us Nikollle. We were all puzzled by you temporary disappearance. Great to have you back though. Everyone needs a good laugh now and then, even we Serbs.

Nikolle

pre 9 godina

you have been arguing for the rise of China for the last couple of years? I'd keep that quiet if I were you, the rise of China has been a well known fact the past 20 years, if this has only hit you in the past 2 years, its nothing to brag about. it only goes to highlight your stupidity more

sj

pre 9 godina

(Nikolle, 20 March 2015 10:20)

On Wednesday a person by the name John posted an item http://www.b92.net/eng/news/comments.php?nav_id=93512
It was obvious from his second response that he knew what he was talking about.
Look at the opposition statements. They are all goat herders and don’t know the difference from their elbow and their a***hole and think this guy is making it all up.
What’s this board room meetings? Yes I have been to them. In fact I have worked for Ministers directly. So what? What do you do for a living?
I have argued for a couple of years the rise of China but people like you who have never been further than 20 ks from where you live would make all types of stupid comments.
Read it and weep.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/europeans-defy-us-flag-plans-to-join-chinaled-asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-20150318-1m1v8n.html

Nikolle

pre 9 godina

"Who says it's nonsense? "

oh wait, you actually believe that garbage too? dear me, there must a brain cell deficiency epidemic to have hit Australia, its the only possible explanation I have for your opinions and that of I-have-sat-in-many-important-board-meetings-sj

sj

pre 9 godina

An academic once said that in the colloquial vernacular one idiot begats and ever bigger idiot. His point was if you have stupid people at the top then they only get worse down the pyramid.
Michael Kirby is a fabulous example of idiots in Washington appointing an even bigger buffoon to represent them in Belgrade. Psst!!! Mike he is a tip for you. Try and not insult the people where you are stationed and maybe they might warm to the United States of Piss and Wind.

Peggy

pre 9 godina

"We understand history, but I also think that sanctions are sometimes necessary because of the nature of things that people do," Kirby was quoted as saying, and adding that "friends can sometimes disagree."
================================
This is priceless. Yes, friends disagree but friends don't punish their friends for disagreements and they certainly don't punish them in such a cruel and twisted way.
Go and take your rubbish some place else.
I really hope that people of Serbia don't get sucked in by this man.

Peggy

pre 9 godina

Tell me, do you actually believe the nonsense you write or do you type it for amusement?
(Nikolle, 19 March 2015 16:43)
==========================
Who says it's nonsense?
Do you actually believe in the nonesense YOU write or do you type it for personal amusements because it doesn't amuse anyone else?

Aston68

pre 9 godina

And, so spoke the apparatchik of the new oligarchy's most powerful exponent - the country that once was truly great, admired, and founded on the most noble of principles, the good ole USA...
Good is bad, bad is good, militarism leads to peace, murdering innocents around the world and trampling on their democratic rights is tranquility, and boy do we have some great TV and Hollywood stuff to convince your averaged IQ citizen that it really is so...
Thank you for the bold and advanced education, Sir; we, the lowly beings who can't understand the higher thinking of the class you are representing, hope that you get a nice tap on the right shoulder from neocons as well as on the left one from neolibs.

EagleSon

pre 9 godina

Serbia has always been a thorn for Europe, from their invasions of the Illyric peninsula a millennia ago, to their agreements and intermarriages with ottoman sultans and backstabbing of European nations like Hungary and Albania 500yrs ago, to their atrocities, genocide, ethnic cleansing in recent years.

Josip

pre 9 godina

And yes the Serbian people are still suffering because of the sanctions - - the sanctions and embargo, along with war profiteering, put capital in the hands of the criminal class. These criminals became or financed the tycoons who continued to wreck the economy during the last 15 years. They along with the political parties set up a system that enabled them to suck money from the state and create monopolies. Was this really the best way to try to bring down Milosevic and his cronies?
In Russia the situation is different since the criminals already run the economy and the state so capital is already in the wrong hands.

Boro

pre 9 godina

This is not an article. These are typed up notes that need to be used perhaps to write an article. There's no structure. Who writes this stuff?

Nata

pre 9 godina

Bravo Dragan for your comment.

As for US Ambassador... you should be ashamed to talk to Serbian people in such way unless you are really clueless what were the real reasons for war in Yugoslavia.You are now trying to glorify sanctions and aggression against us Serbs. I guess ,like everything else you do, you justify your actions by the ends.Nineties are known to be the lowest point in intellectual history for the West.
US Ambassador , we are not stupid.The real reason you carried sanctions and then war against Serbs and carving the Kosovo out of Serbia are: the inexhaustible natural resources of the Kosovo: 77,302,000 tons of coal, copper, zinc, lead, nickel, gold, silver, marble, manganese, iron ore, asbestos and limestone – to name but a few.
The value of these mineral resources is estimated to be over 10 trillion dollars and these extremely valuable resources in the hands of the local workers represented the real reason for the military interference of the West in 1999 with the controversy between the Yugoslavian army and the UÇK. Additionally, the UÇK had been trained for years and supported with millions of dollars and German Marks by the West through its secret services CIA and BND, trained for this war, which is still misleadingly called a “civil war in Yugoslavia”. During the NATO war against Yugoslavia, the whole infrastructure of the country was destroyed, but the Trepca mines in Kosovo were spared from the bombings.
Not to mention Bondsteel... etc.

sasica

pre 9 godina

Mr. Kirby,

It's high time that we stop using Clintonese. Santions means "war". It's the same as if you're strangling someone instead of shooting them. You wage war on anyone in the world if it suits you or whatever interest, foreign or domestic, makes the proper size contribution to American polticians who call the shots. The American military is a mercenary force sent to do others' bidding. Too bad for the countless patriotic Americans who die around the world for something that has no bearing on vital American interests, for their families who welcome back PTSD and broken minds and bodies.

Preach your morality elsewhere, please. If American voters are stupid enough to not hold their elected officials accountable, the rest of the world should not have to be exposed to your variable concepts of democracy, civility, and morality.

Yet Another J S

pre 9 godina

We all know that WW 1 and WW 2 occurred in Europe, because some of the European Leadership was not a Dog Free Zone, and the European Union was said to be set up to be a Dog Free Zone with regards to its Rulers, and to follow the Principles of Democracy.

We see some of the Money that has been wasted, and the Lies that have been told, and the Injustices which have been committed to set up the Fourth Reich for WW 3.

An Honest Article by an Honest British Journalist Proves this Despite the Many Lies, and that Article is Titled: Milosevic: true or false at http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/21/tenquestionsonslobodanmilo , and at http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/12/warcrimes.comment , and at http://www.globalresearch.ca/search?q=Ukraine .

One of the things that the European Union and Serbia needs to do if they want the European Union to become a Dog Free Zone, is to Publicly Admit that Slobodan Milosevic was Innocent, and that Serbia is Innocent.

Serbia is given some Scraps or Dog Biscuits, which should be Partial Compensation, but Only if they are Puppets of the Anglo-American Capitalist Running Dogs and the European Union Capitalist Running Dogs, and if they Deliberately cover up that that Slobodan Milosevic was Innocent, because The Hague has Spent Much Money and Told Many Lies, and Committed Many Injustices, but this does not contribute to a Dog Free Zone for the European Union.

Dragoljub Djurkovic

pre 9 godina

Yea Mr Kirby, what ever you say is right? Jugoslavia needed to be dismantled, now Germany and the Roman Catholic Empire can control the small fragments of a once large nation much easier. The bombing that started on March 24, 1999 and lasted for a devistating and punishing 78 days also very good for Serbian people, lets call it a population control for Eastern Orthodox Slavic people, thin out the population because there are so many of us. Also the sanctions really good for all Christian Eastern Orthodox Slavic people in Europe. It is a great benifit to the International Community and Hitlers Roman Catholic Empire to watch us Eastern Orthodox Slavic people stay poor and isolated. Remember all them speaches from Bill Clinton and Tony Blair back in 1999 how Serbia was such a great national threat to the USA and the whole world? Well some thing had to be done to nutralize the danger Serbia was posing towards the USA and the whole world? Now pretty much every thing as planned by Satan, Serbia surrounded by Hell and the mission accomplished. So many thanks to USA, England and Germany, I really don't know how we Serbian people could of done it with out you! Today all Eastern Orthodox Slavic people in Europe so content and happy! Eastern Orthodox Slavic people for ages tortured by the Devil and for eternity we chew up all the bad and difficult times and spit it right back in your wicked and ugly face Satan! God Bless all my Eastern Orthodox Brothers and Sisters in the world!!!

Dragan

pre 9 godina

Kirby, kindly go $%# yourself. We don't need your advice, don't want your advice, and frankly don't even want you in Serbia. You're a clueless individual who simply parrots what the military industrial complex (the war profiteers and corrupt lobbyists who run your country) tells you. I'm sure you think the KLA organ snatching terrorists are swell guys, and the 78 day war criminal bombing of Serbia was justified too. You, sir, are a disgrace. We Serbs have seen the actions of your govenment, which are a long list of undeniable war crimes, and we know what you're all about very well. You should be declared persona non grata, and God willing, the next Serbian government will kick you out. You are stinking up Belgrade.
Cheers!!

Dragan

pre 9 godina

Kirby, kindly go $%# yourself. We don't need your advice, don't want your advice, and frankly don't even want you in Serbia. You're a clueless individual who simply parrots what the military industrial complex (the war profiteers and corrupt lobbyists who run your country) tells you. I'm sure you think the KLA organ snatching terrorists are swell guys, and the 78 day war criminal bombing of Serbia was justified too. You, sir, are a disgrace. We Serbs have seen the actions of your govenment, which are a long list of undeniable war crimes, and we know what you're all about very well. You should be declared persona non grata, and God willing, the next Serbian government will kick you out. You are stinking up Belgrade.
Cheers!!

Dragoljub Djurkovic

pre 9 godina

Yea Mr Kirby, what ever you say is right? Jugoslavia needed to be dismantled, now Germany and the Roman Catholic Empire can control the small fragments of a once large nation much easier. The bombing that started on March 24, 1999 and lasted for a devistating and punishing 78 days also very good for Serbian people, lets call it a population control for Eastern Orthodox Slavic people, thin out the population because there are so many of us. Also the sanctions really good for all Christian Eastern Orthodox Slavic people in Europe. It is a great benifit to the International Community and Hitlers Roman Catholic Empire to watch us Eastern Orthodox Slavic people stay poor and isolated. Remember all them speaches from Bill Clinton and Tony Blair back in 1999 how Serbia was such a great national threat to the USA and the whole world? Well some thing had to be done to nutralize the danger Serbia was posing towards the USA and the whole world? Now pretty much every thing as planned by Satan, Serbia surrounded by Hell and the mission accomplished. So many thanks to USA, England and Germany, I really don't know how we Serbian people could of done it with out you! Today all Eastern Orthodox Slavic people in Europe so content and happy! Eastern Orthodox Slavic people for ages tortured by the Devil and for eternity we chew up all the bad and difficult times and spit it right back in your wicked and ugly face Satan! God Bless all my Eastern Orthodox Brothers and Sisters in the world!!!

sasica

pre 9 godina

Mr. Kirby,

It's high time that we stop using Clintonese. Santions means "war". It's the same as if you're strangling someone instead of shooting them. You wage war on anyone in the world if it suits you or whatever interest, foreign or domestic, makes the proper size contribution to American polticians who call the shots. The American military is a mercenary force sent to do others' bidding. Too bad for the countless patriotic Americans who die around the world for something that has no bearing on vital American interests, for their families who welcome back PTSD and broken minds and bodies.

Preach your morality elsewhere, please. If American voters are stupid enough to not hold their elected officials accountable, the rest of the world should not have to be exposed to your variable concepts of democracy, civility, and morality.

njegos

pre 9 godina

Nikolle - Where have you been? For a time you were all over this board spewing your jibberish. Then interestingly, you disappeared at the time your fellow Kosovar Albanians were cramming themselves onto buses to get out of that Albanian-run hell-hole. Perhaps you were one of them. Are you now writing from Germany or Austria or Hungary or Serbia? Or did you remain in your drug-running, corrupt criminally-run Kosovo? Please tell us Nikollle. We were all puzzled by you temporary disappearance. Great to have you back though. Everyone needs a good laugh now and then, even we Serbs.

Nata

pre 9 godina

Bravo Dragan for your comment.

As for US Ambassador... you should be ashamed to talk to Serbian people in such way unless you are really clueless what were the real reasons for war in Yugoslavia.You are now trying to glorify sanctions and aggression against us Serbs. I guess ,like everything else you do, you justify your actions by the ends.Nineties are known to be the lowest point in intellectual history for the West.
US Ambassador , we are not stupid.The real reason you carried sanctions and then war against Serbs and carving the Kosovo out of Serbia are: the inexhaustible natural resources of the Kosovo: 77,302,000 tons of coal, copper, zinc, lead, nickel, gold, silver, marble, manganese, iron ore, asbestos and limestone – to name but a few.
The value of these mineral resources is estimated to be over 10 trillion dollars and these extremely valuable resources in the hands of the local workers represented the real reason for the military interference of the West in 1999 with the controversy between the Yugoslavian army and the UÇK. Additionally, the UÇK had been trained for years and supported with millions of dollars and German Marks by the West through its secret services CIA and BND, trained for this war, which is still misleadingly called a “civil war in Yugoslavia”. During the NATO war against Yugoslavia, the whole infrastructure of the country was destroyed, but the Trepca mines in Kosovo were spared from the bombings.
Not to mention Bondsteel... etc.

Josip

pre 9 godina

And yes the Serbian people are still suffering because of the sanctions - - the sanctions and embargo, along with war profiteering, put capital in the hands of the criminal class. These criminals became or financed the tycoons who continued to wreck the economy during the last 15 years. They along with the political parties set up a system that enabled them to suck money from the state and create monopolies. Was this really the best way to try to bring down Milosevic and his cronies?
In Russia the situation is different since the criminals already run the economy and the state so capital is already in the wrong hands.

Yet Another J S

pre 9 godina

We all know that WW 1 and WW 2 occurred in Europe, because some of the European Leadership was not a Dog Free Zone, and the European Union was said to be set up to be a Dog Free Zone with regards to its Rulers, and to follow the Principles of Democracy.

We see some of the Money that has been wasted, and the Lies that have been told, and the Injustices which have been committed to set up the Fourth Reich for WW 3.

An Honest Article by an Honest British Journalist Proves this Despite the Many Lies, and that Article is Titled: Milosevic: true or false at http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/21/tenquestionsonslobodanmilo , and at http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/12/warcrimes.comment , and at http://www.globalresearch.ca/search?q=Ukraine .

One of the things that the European Union and Serbia needs to do if they want the European Union to become a Dog Free Zone, is to Publicly Admit that Slobodan Milosevic was Innocent, and that Serbia is Innocent.

Serbia is given some Scraps or Dog Biscuits, which should be Partial Compensation, but Only if they are Puppets of the Anglo-American Capitalist Running Dogs and the European Union Capitalist Running Dogs, and if they Deliberately cover up that that Slobodan Milosevic was Innocent, because The Hague has Spent Much Money and Told Many Lies, and Committed Many Injustices, but this does not contribute to a Dog Free Zone for the European Union.

sj

pre 9 godina

An academic once said that in the colloquial vernacular one idiot begats and ever bigger idiot. His point was if you have stupid people at the top then they only get worse down the pyramid.
Michael Kirby is a fabulous example of idiots in Washington appointing an even bigger buffoon to represent them in Belgrade. Psst!!! Mike he is a tip for you. Try and not insult the people where you are stationed and maybe they might warm to the United States of Piss and Wind.

Aston68

pre 9 godina

And, so spoke the apparatchik of the new oligarchy's most powerful exponent - the country that once was truly great, admired, and founded on the most noble of principles, the good ole USA...
Good is bad, bad is good, militarism leads to peace, murdering innocents around the world and trampling on their democratic rights is tranquility, and boy do we have some great TV and Hollywood stuff to convince your averaged IQ citizen that it really is so...
Thank you for the bold and advanced education, Sir; we, the lowly beings who can't understand the higher thinking of the class you are representing, hope that you get a nice tap on the right shoulder from neocons as well as on the left one from neolibs.

Peggy

pre 9 godina

Tell me, do you actually believe the nonsense you write or do you type it for amusement?
(Nikolle, 19 March 2015 16:43)
==========================
Who says it's nonsense?
Do you actually believe in the nonesense YOU write or do you type it for personal amusements because it doesn't amuse anyone else?

sj

pre 9 godina

(Nikolle, 20 March 2015 10:20)

On Wednesday a person by the name John posted an item http://www.b92.net/eng/news/comments.php?nav_id=93512
It was obvious from his second response that he knew what he was talking about.
Look at the opposition statements. They are all goat herders and don’t know the difference from their elbow and their a***hole and think this guy is making it all up.
What’s this board room meetings? Yes I have been to them. In fact I have worked for Ministers directly. So what? What do you do for a living?
I have argued for a couple of years the rise of China but people like you who have never been further than 20 ks from where you live would make all types of stupid comments.
Read it and weep.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/europeans-defy-us-flag-plans-to-join-chinaled-asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-20150318-1m1v8n.html

Peggy

pre 9 godina

"We understand history, but I also think that sanctions are sometimes necessary because of the nature of things that people do," Kirby was quoted as saying, and adding that "friends can sometimes disagree."
================================
This is priceless. Yes, friends disagree but friends don't punish their friends for disagreements and they certainly don't punish them in such a cruel and twisted way.
Go and take your rubbish some place else.
I really hope that people of Serbia don't get sucked in by this man.

Reader

pre 9 godina

Yes, the sanctions on Milosevic's Serbia were right. Its exclusion from the UN too.

The ambassador is not being diplomatic though if he says: "But we believe that we made the right decision when we introduced sanctions against you,". He needs to make the distinction between what kind of country Serbia was back then and what kind of country it pretends to be now. Not just say against "you" but against "Milosevic's regime". Or were his words changed by the journalists?

Smucar Car

pre 9 godina

Of course Russia didn't stop bombing because president at that time was pro west puppet Yeltsin. Also for the moral value of Mr. Ambassador whatever his name is, lets reverse things and look from this perspective. Assume Serbia bombed US over some internal political issue. Then put sanctions on US and starve them to death. Then support Al Kaida in terrorist attempts against US people, and then after years have passed Serbian ambassador to US say sorry, but I think we did right thing. My questions are: 1 How could some person or government be such a cynical without any moral values or concerns and; 2. What would US do in this case. They put Cuba on black terrorist list for 35 years just for kicking them out from their own country, and they US are not terrorists, yet they tried to kill Castro numerous times. So dear US ambassador to Serbia whatever your name is: Ne rise!

John Bosnitch

pre 9 godina

Kirby: "As for media freedom, he said he knew it was viewed as 'a major problem,' but that he himself was not up to date with the issue, because, as he noted, he is a diplomat. "

Of course when it is a problem for which he is directly responsible, Kirby claims to be just a "diplomat". This man has far overstepped the bounds of his diplomatic function in this country by spending most of his time meddling in the internal affairs of the host nation (Serbia). What US Occupation Governor Kirby does in Serbia has nothing to do with "diplomacy," unless, of course, we are just talking about typical Anglo-American *gunboat* diplomacy.

Boro

pre 9 godina

This is not an article. These are typed up notes that need to be used perhaps to write an article. There's no structure. Who writes this stuff?

EagleSon

pre 9 godina

Serbia has always been a thorn for Europe, from their invasions of the Illyric peninsula a millennia ago, to their agreements and intermarriages with ottoman sultans and backstabbing of European nations like Hungary and Albania 500yrs ago, to their atrocities, genocide, ethnic cleansing in recent years.

Nikolle

pre 9 godina

"Who says it's nonsense? "

oh wait, you actually believe that garbage too? dear me, there must a brain cell deficiency epidemic to have hit Australia, its the only possible explanation I have for your opinions and that of I-have-sat-in-many-important-board-meetings-sj

Nikolle

pre 9 godina

you have been arguing for the rise of China for the last couple of years? I'd keep that quiet if I were you, the rise of China has been a well known fact the past 20 years, if this has only hit you in the past 2 years, its nothing to brag about. it only goes to highlight your stupidity more

icj1

pre 9 godina

Of course Russia didn't stop bombing because president at that time was pro west puppet Yeltsin.
(Smucar Car, 21 March 2015 04:18)

Well, Yeltsin, Putin or whoever will be the next ruler of Russia will not start a nuclear was and risk Russia's annihilation for something as insignificant as Serbia.

But, Yeltsin, did send Russian troops to Kosovo; whereas Putin withdrew them. Facts speak clear and loud :) But many Serbs like the words more lol

sj

pre 9 godina

you have been arguing for the rise of China for the last couple of years? I'd keep that quiet if I were you, the rise of China has been a well known fact the past 20 years, if this has only hit you in the past 2 years, its nothing to brag about. it only goes to highlight your stupidity more
(Nikolle, 20 March 2015 12:09)

You are a very recent interloper on B92, but I have posted since 2008. Right after the GFC whenever I mentioned China, the response was incredible from your lot. China was not supposed to take over from the US for another 40/50years, but thanks to George Bush and his spending the US is stuffed big time. Most others knew that China was on the rise except for the Albanians. That’s why I mentioned this fact.

ItalianoAmericano

pre 9 godina

The rise of China can only go so far. Their economy depends on American consumers with no one with near the purchasing power to take over if we go away. As long as America is around to buy crap. China will prosper. So dont go beating your fists too much about how China is going to take over the world.

mijo

pre 9 godina

US AMBASADOR COULD BE "PERSONA NON GRATA"! Nobody in THE WORLD USE THIS LANGUAGE TO SAY TO OUR PRESIDENT!
DIRTY POLITICIAN SHOWS WHAT US THINK ABOUT SERBIA!

EagleSon

pre 9 godina

Serbia has always been a thorn for Europe, from their invasions of the Illyric peninsula a millennia ago, to their agreements and intermarriages with ottoman sultans and backstabbing of European nations like Hungary and Albania 500yrs ago, to their atrocities, genocide, ethnic cleansing in recent years.

Dragoljub Djurkovic

pre 9 godina

Yea Mr Kirby, what ever you say is right? Jugoslavia needed to be dismantled, now Germany and the Roman Catholic Empire can control the small fragments of a once large nation much easier. The bombing that started on March 24, 1999 and lasted for a devistating and punishing 78 days also very good for Serbian people, lets call it a population control for Eastern Orthodox Slavic people, thin out the population because there are so many of us. Also the sanctions really good for all Christian Eastern Orthodox Slavic people in Europe. It is a great benifit to the International Community and Hitlers Roman Catholic Empire to watch us Eastern Orthodox Slavic people stay poor and isolated. Remember all them speaches from Bill Clinton and Tony Blair back in 1999 how Serbia was such a great national threat to the USA and the whole world? Well some thing had to be done to nutralize the danger Serbia was posing towards the USA and the whole world? Now pretty much every thing as planned by Satan, Serbia surrounded by Hell and the mission accomplished. So many thanks to USA, England and Germany, I really don't know how we Serbian people could of done it with out you! Today all Eastern Orthodox Slavic people in Europe so content and happy! Eastern Orthodox Slavic people for ages tortured by the Devil and for eternity we chew up all the bad and difficult times and spit it right back in your wicked and ugly face Satan! God Bless all my Eastern Orthodox Brothers and Sisters in the world!!!

Dragan

pre 9 godina

Kirby, kindly go $%# yourself. We don't need your advice, don't want your advice, and frankly don't even want you in Serbia. You're a clueless individual who simply parrots what the military industrial complex (the war profiteers and corrupt lobbyists who run your country) tells you. I'm sure you think the KLA organ snatching terrorists are swell guys, and the 78 day war criminal bombing of Serbia was justified too. You, sir, are a disgrace. We Serbs have seen the actions of your govenment, which are a long list of undeniable war crimes, and we know what you're all about very well. You should be declared persona non grata, and God willing, the next Serbian government will kick you out. You are stinking up Belgrade.
Cheers!!

Nikolle

pre 9 godina

"Who says it's nonsense? "

oh wait, you actually believe that garbage too? dear me, there must a brain cell deficiency epidemic to have hit Australia, its the only possible explanation I have for your opinions and that of I-have-sat-in-many-important-board-meetings-sj

Nikolle

pre 9 godina

you have been arguing for the rise of China for the last couple of years? I'd keep that quiet if I were you, the rise of China has been a well known fact the past 20 years, if this has only hit you in the past 2 years, its nothing to brag about. it only goes to highlight your stupidity more

Reader

pre 9 godina

Yes, the sanctions on Milosevic's Serbia were right. Its exclusion from the UN too.

The ambassador is not being diplomatic though if he says: "But we believe that we made the right decision when we introduced sanctions against you,". He needs to make the distinction between what kind of country Serbia was back then and what kind of country it pretends to be now. Not just say against "you" but against "Milosevic's regime". Or were his words changed by the journalists?

Yet Another J S

pre 9 godina

We all know that WW 1 and WW 2 occurred in Europe, because some of the European Leadership was not a Dog Free Zone, and the European Union was said to be set up to be a Dog Free Zone with regards to its Rulers, and to follow the Principles of Democracy.

We see some of the Money that has been wasted, and the Lies that have been told, and the Injustices which have been committed to set up the Fourth Reich for WW 3.

An Honest Article by an Honest British Journalist Proves this Despite the Many Lies, and that Article is Titled: Milosevic: true or false at http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/21/tenquestionsonslobodanmilo , and at http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/12/warcrimes.comment , and at http://www.globalresearch.ca/search?q=Ukraine .

One of the things that the European Union and Serbia needs to do if they want the European Union to become a Dog Free Zone, is to Publicly Admit that Slobodan Milosevic was Innocent, and that Serbia is Innocent.

Serbia is given some Scraps or Dog Biscuits, which should be Partial Compensation, but Only if they are Puppets of the Anglo-American Capitalist Running Dogs and the European Union Capitalist Running Dogs, and if they Deliberately cover up that that Slobodan Milosevic was Innocent, because The Hague has Spent Much Money and Told Many Lies, and Committed Many Injustices, but this does not contribute to a Dog Free Zone for the European Union.

Nata

pre 9 godina

Bravo Dragan for your comment.

As for US Ambassador... you should be ashamed to talk to Serbian people in such way unless you are really clueless what were the real reasons for war in Yugoslavia.You are now trying to glorify sanctions and aggression against us Serbs. I guess ,like everything else you do, you justify your actions by the ends.Nineties are known to be the lowest point in intellectual history for the West.
US Ambassador , we are not stupid.The real reason you carried sanctions and then war against Serbs and carving the Kosovo out of Serbia are: the inexhaustible natural resources of the Kosovo: 77,302,000 tons of coal, copper, zinc, lead, nickel, gold, silver, marble, manganese, iron ore, asbestos and limestone – to name but a few.
The value of these mineral resources is estimated to be over 10 trillion dollars and these extremely valuable resources in the hands of the local workers represented the real reason for the military interference of the West in 1999 with the controversy between the Yugoslavian army and the UÇK. Additionally, the UÇK had been trained for years and supported with millions of dollars and German Marks by the West through its secret services CIA and BND, trained for this war, which is still misleadingly called a “civil war in Yugoslavia”. During the NATO war against Yugoslavia, the whole infrastructure of the country was destroyed, but the Trepca mines in Kosovo were spared from the bombings.
Not to mention Bondsteel... etc.

Peggy

pre 9 godina

Tell me, do you actually believe the nonsense you write or do you type it for amusement?
(Nikolle, 19 March 2015 16:43)
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Who says it's nonsense?
Do you actually believe in the nonesense YOU write or do you type it for personal amusements because it doesn't amuse anyone else?

sasica

pre 9 godina

Mr. Kirby,

It's high time that we stop using Clintonese. Santions means "war". It's the same as if you're strangling someone instead of shooting them. You wage war on anyone in the world if it suits you or whatever interest, foreign or domestic, makes the proper size contribution to American polticians who call the shots. The American military is a mercenary force sent to do others' bidding. Too bad for the countless patriotic Americans who die around the world for something that has no bearing on vital American interests, for their families who welcome back PTSD and broken minds and bodies.

Preach your morality elsewhere, please. If American voters are stupid enough to not hold their elected officials accountable, the rest of the world should not have to be exposed to your variable concepts of democracy, civility, and morality.

sj

pre 9 godina

(Nikolle, 20 March 2015 10:20)

On Wednesday a person by the name John posted an item http://www.b92.net/eng/news/comments.php?nav_id=93512
It was obvious from his second response that he knew what he was talking about.
Look at the opposition statements. They are all goat herders and don’t know the difference from their elbow and their a***hole and think this guy is making it all up.
What’s this board room meetings? Yes I have been to them. In fact I have worked for Ministers directly. So what? What do you do for a living?
I have argued for a couple of years the rise of China but people like you who have never been further than 20 ks from where you live would make all types of stupid comments.
Read it and weep.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/europeans-defy-us-flag-plans-to-join-chinaled-asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-20150318-1m1v8n.html

njegos

pre 9 godina

Nikolle - Where have you been? For a time you were all over this board spewing your jibberish. Then interestingly, you disappeared at the time your fellow Kosovar Albanians were cramming themselves onto buses to get out of that Albanian-run hell-hole. Perhaps you were one of them. Are you now writing from Germany or Austria or Hungary or Serbia? Or did you remain in your drug-running, corrupt criminally-run Kosovo? Please tell us Nikollle. We were all puzzled by you temporary disappearance. Great to have you back though. Everyone needs a good laugh now and then, even we Serbs.

Josip

pre 9 godina

And yes the Serbian people are still suffering because of the sanctions - - the sanctions and embargo, along with war profiteering, put capital in the hands of the criminal class. These criminals became or financed the tycoons who continued to wreck the economy during the last 15 years. They along with the political parties set up a system that enabled them to suck money from the state and create monopolies. Was this really the best way to try to bring down Milosevic and his cronies?
In Russia the situation is different since the criminals already run the economy and the state so capital is already in the wrong hands.

Peggy

pre 9 godina

"We understand history, but I also think that sanctions are sometimes necessary because of the nature of things that people do," Kirby was quoted as saying, and adding that "friends can sometimes disagree."
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This is priceless. Yes, friends disagree but friends don't punish their friends for disagreements and they certainly don't punish them in such a cruel and twisted way.
Go and take your rubbish some place else.
I really hope that people of Serbia don't get sucked in by this man.

sj

pre 9 godina

An academic once said that in the colloquial vernacular one idiot begats and ever bigger idiot. His point was if you have stupid people at the top then they only get worse down the pyramid.
Michael Kirby is a fabulous example of idiots in Washington appointing an even bigger buffoon to represent them in Belgrade. Psst!!! Mike he is a tip for you. Try and not insult the people where you are stationed and maybe they might warm to the United States of Piss and Wind.

icj1

pre 9 godina

Of course Russia didn't stop bombing because president at that time was pro west puppet Yeltsin.
(Smucar Car, 21 March 2015 04:18)

Well, Yeltsin, Putin or whoever will be the next ruler of Russia will not start a nuclear was and risk Russia's annihilation for something as insignificant as Serbia.

But, Yeltsin, did send Russian troops to Kosovo; whereas Putin withdrew them. Facts speak clear and loud :) But many Serbs like the words more lol

Boro

pre 9 godina

This is not an article. These are typed up notes that need to be used perhaps to write an article. There's no structure. Who writes this stuff?

Aston68

pre 9 godina

And, so spoke the apparatchik of the new oligarchy's most powerful exponent - the country that once was truly great, admired, and founded on the most noble of principles, the good ole USA...
Good is bad, bad is good, militarism leads to peace, murdering innocents around the world and trampling on their democratic rights is tranquility, and boy do we have some great TV and Hollywood stuff to convince your averaged IQ citizen that it really is so...
Thank you for the bold and advanced education, Sir; we, the lowly beings who can't understand the higher thinking of the class you are representing, hope that you get a nice tap on the right shoulder from neocons as well as on the left one from neolibs.

ItalianoAmericano

pre 9 godina

The rise of China can only go so far. Their economy depends on American consumers with no one with near the purchasing power to take over if we go away. As long as America is around to buy crap. China will prosper. So dont go beating your fists too much about how China is going to take over the world.

Smucar Car

pre 9 godina

Of course Russia didn't stop bombing because president at that time was pro west puppet Yeltsin. Also for the moral value of Mr. Ambassador whatever his name is, lets reverse things and look from this perspective. Assume Serbia bombed US over some internal political issue. Then put sanctions on US and starve them to death. Then support Al Kaida in terrorist attempts against US people, and then after years have passed Serbian ambassador to US say sorry, but I think we did right thing. My questions are: 1 How could some person or government be such a cynical without any moral values or concerns and; 2. What would US do in this case. They put Cuba on black terrorist list for 35 years just for kicking them out from their own country, and they US are not terrorists, yet they tried to kill Castro numerous times. So dear US ambassador to Serbia whatever your name is: Ne rise!

John Bosnitch

pre 9 godina

Kirby: "As for media freedom, he said he knew it was viewed as 'a major problem,' but that he himself was not up to date with the issue, because, as he noted, he is a diplomat. "

Of course when it is a problem for which he is directly responsible, Kirby claims to be just a "diplomat". This man has far overstepped the bounds of his diplomatic function in this country by spending most of his time meddling in the internal affairs of the host nation (Serbia). What US Occupation Governor Kirby does in Serbia has nothing to do with "diplomacy," unless, of course, we are just talking about typical Anglo-American *gunboat* diplomacy.

sj

pre 9 godina

you have been arguing for the rise of China for the last couple of years? I'd keep that quiet if I were you, the rise of China has been a well known fact the past 20 years, if this has only hit you in the past 2 years, its nothing to brag about. it only goes to highlight your stupidity more
(Nikolle, 20 March 2015 12:09)

You are a very recent interloper on B92, but I have posted since 2008. Right after the GFC whenever I mentioned China, the response was incredible from your lot. China was not supposed to take over from the US for another 40/50years, but thanks to George Bush and his spending the US is stuffed big time. Most others knew that China was on the rise except for the Albanians. That’s why I mentioned this fact.

mijo

pre 9 godina

US AMBASADOR COULD BE "PERSONA NON GRATA"! Nobody in THE WORLD USE THIS LANGUAGE TO SAY TO OUR PRESIDENT!
DIRTY POLITICIAN SHOWS WHAT US THINK ABOUT SERBIA!