His Excellency Ban Ki-moon,
Secretary General,
United Nations.
Via
E-mail
11/07/07
Dear Secretary General,
I have recently e-mailed to you a summary of items noted in public
regarding a report in your hands from the German intelligence team posted
to Kosovo and led by Brigadier Luke Neiman. If it is accurate and the
details make it credible, the report to you casts a very dark shadow on the
so-called Althisaari proposal to separate Kosovo from Serbia. I just read
your recent statement that you “fully support” his plan. I take the liberty
to make another proposal as briefly as possible.
Since a change in frontiers is involved why not divide Kosovo
itself into two parts, the northern section remaining in Serbia and its
southern counterpart becoming the independent new state. While this partiton
of Kosovo would not please the more radical elements on both sides, it will
serve several short and long-range purposes.
It would diffuse the constantly expected explosion of the Kosovo
Albanians, led by the current “provisional” government whose members
emmanate from the UCK (or KLA ,once defined by the U.S. State Department as
a terrorist group). I stress this point because over l00,000 Kosovo
Albanians have fled from Kosovo into Serbia rather than live under such a
government. There are equally large numbers of Kosovo Albanians –silent tho
they are- who have no real desire to be governed by the KLA holdovers or to
create wealth from illicit trade in drugs and humans which enriches the
caids mainly.
The proposed partition, supported by You and seconded by the EU would halt
one tendency sure to come and would prevent a very serious future war in
this region. The tendency is to create an Albania which includes not only
the whole of Kosovo but parts of Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro. .
Given the international pressure with your imprimatur and
appointing a team to study the new boundary is something that the current
Albanian government could not really challenge or something that the Serbs
–on the whole-- could refuse in the light of an alternative they cannot
accept.
In conclusion, You do not have anything to lose by appointing a
team to meet with the Serb and Albanian experts and examine closely the
partition proposal.
Respectfully,
Raymond K. Kent, Emeritus
History Department,
University of California,
Berkeley, CA m94720
Serbian News Network - SNN
[email protected]
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