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Los Angeles Times
December 12, 2007
Letters to the Editor
Trying to sort out the Balkans
Re "Bid for Kosovo resolution fails," Dec. 11
The Times indicates that Serbia's refusal to
compromise arises from Russia's support of Serbia on
Kosovo.
Serbia has already compromised, granting the most
far-reaching autonomy to Kosovar Albanians short of
outright independence.
It is Albanian intransigence on Kosovo, and U.S.
support for its independence, that have rendered
further Serb-Albanian negotiations worthless and no
incentive for an Albanian compromise.
Raju G. C. Thomas
Milwaukee
The writer is contributing editor of "Yugoslavia
Unraveled," Lexington Books 2004, and a former U.S.
Fulbright professor at the University of Belgrade,
2004-2005.
Re "Balkanization redux?" editorial, Dec. 6
You demand that the United Nations be ready to offer
safe passage out of Kosovo for any Serbs who wish to
leave.
Presumably, any Serb leaving who needs safe passage
is, in effect, being driven out.
So much for retired Gen. Wesley Clark's comment during
the bombing of Serbia that "there is no place in
modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a
19th century idea, and we are trying to transition
into the 21st century."
Yugo Kovach
Twickenham, England
Serbian News Network - SNN
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