Stop "Playing With Fire" in Kosovo
Increase <javascript:void(0);> <javascript:void(0);> Decrease December 21, 2007 (LPAC)-- Lyndon LaRouche warned on Dec. <http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2007/12/21/stop-kosovo-movement-or-wwiii-ravages-europe.html-0> 20 that there must be "No sympathy for the Kosovo independence movement--crush it... by tolerating them, you'll have World War III." Today, upon reflection of LaRouche's statement, it was made amply clear that Russia would endorse nothing more than an autonomy for the majority ethnic-Albanian province of Kosovo by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who told the Vremya Novostei daily on today: "If a (UN) resolution is proposed that approves a unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo, then of course there will be a veto." The European Union and United States announced late on Dec. 21, after a UN Security Council meeting, that the potential for a negotiated solution in Kosovo was "exhausted" and said they would spearhead the drive to implement a phased independence of Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province without United Nations Security Council approval. The US and EU independence plans "in essence represent an attempt to say that the West is no longer interested in the United Nations and that they are ready to solve the complicated problems outside of the UN," Lavrov stressed. Sergei Mironov, president of the upper house of the Russian parliament, in response to these actions said that "those who entice Kosovo sovereignty are playing with fire. If Russia's stance on Kosovo is ignored, she retains the right to correct the stance on many other issues." http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2007/12/21/stop-playing-fire-kosovo.html
