West ‘pressing to dismember Serbia’ BELGRADE The Serbian Prime Minister has said that powerful Western nations have asked his country to give up the province of Kosovo voluntarily and to be an accomplice to the creation of a new Albanian state.
Vojislav Kostunica said: “We must now decide whether Serbia will succumb to this violence and become the first country in Europe to have been humiliated by a land grab since the Munich agreement.” That led in 1938 to Hitler’s dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. Officials from Serbia and Kosovo are to hold talks about the future status of the province over three days in Baden, Austria, next week, after talks on Tuesday failed. Belgrade insists that Kosovo, which has been under UN administration since 1999, is part of its territory and history. It is willing to grant its southern province wide autonomy, but not the independence demanded by the ethnic Albanian majority. (AFP) West <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2925934.ece> ‘pressing to dismember Serbia’ - Times Online
