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Islamic Countries Will be First to Recognize Independent Kosovo
By Julia Gorin <http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/author/juliagorin/> (
<http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/author/juliagorin/bio/> bio)
Good going, my Fellow Americans! Thanks for taking an interest in this issue
that I've been warning about for the past nine years, thereby preventing the
result below. (NOT!) Thanks especially to the A-List blogs that helped
disseminate the information (NOT!), to make sure we weren't still abetting
jihad after 9/11. I am filled with pride and patriotism as an American over our
accomplishment:
<http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2008&mm=02&dd=17&nav_id=47782>
Albania, Saudi Arabia first to recognize Kosovo
BRUSSELS, KOSOVSKA MITROVICA — Beta says an analysis shows Kosovo's unilateral
declaration will first be recognized by some Islamic countries.
The news agency has had insight into the document, put together "by some EU
countries", that says the province's independence declaration, rejected by
Serbia, will be recognized in "three waves".
Albania, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and some other Muslim countries will lead the
way, the report says.
This will be followed by Austria, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and,
the document speculates, France, Great Britain, Germany and Italy.
The United States is also likely to recognize Kosovo very soon.
The "second wave" is said to include Croatia and Macedonia.
Others will be careful and wait to see how the situation develops, bearing in
mind the precedent such recognition sets.
Russia, China, Cyprus, and a number of EU countries that were earlier reported
as opposed to the recognition, that include Romania, Bulgaria, Spain, Slovakia
and Greece, will not recognize Kosovo.
The presence of the first two countries on that list also means that the
province cannot count on a UN seat, or membership in a number of other
international organizations where Russia has the veto power.
Bosnia-Herzegovina's recognition will be made impossible by the Republic of
Srpska's objection, the study concluded, and added that countries such as
India, Brazil and Argentina are also "very critical" toward the possibility of
recognizing Kosovo as a separate country.
Meanwhile, Dušan Janjić, who heads the Forum for Ethnic Relations, said that
"independence of Kosovo and Metohija, which the United Nations will not
recognize, will have only political and psychological weight at first," while
"only later will it become evident that it is not what the Kosovo Albanians had
expected."
In a live broadcast by the Kosovska Mitrovica radio Kontakt Plus, Janjić said
late Saturday that the self-proclaimed independence "will not bring full
freedom, better life, while new passports will not enable them to travel
everywhere."
"Around 40 countries will recognize them, which is fewer than the number of
countries that recognize passports issued by UNMIK today. That will be the
beginning of a dangerous phase, which is when the Albanians will realize that
it is not what they had been promised for the past 20 years. That will open
room for extremists," cautioned Janjić.
Which reminds me to mention that the next phase of fighting will be the
Kosovo-Albanian leaders who have been working through the international
community, and issuing only veiled threats to get what they want while still
claiming to have no interest in uniting Albanian lands — against the Albanians
who have been working to create a Greater Albania from the get-go via violence
in Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Southern Serbia, issuing daily and open
threats to the international community, and organizing the violent protests of
the past two years.
As with Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank, these two factions are merely
different shades of, and employ varying methods of acheiving, the same ultimate
goal. But for now, as the extremists risk messing progress up for the "former"
extremists, they'll be shooting at each other, as has been happening for the
past several years already. So at least there's that.
But to be a good sport on this special day: Happy Birthday, KKKosova!!!!!
Brought to you by the United States of America, the world's last remaining
Superchump.
