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Voice of Russia July 31, 2007 KOSOVO PROBLEM IS EVERYONE’S CONCERN By Mike Sullivan -Small as it is, Kosovo can serve as a detonator for the huge bomb Europe sits on. If the genie of separatism is out, the UN Security Council will no longer be able to squeeze it back no matter how many resolutions it may take. The world order set out in 1945 will be no more. The Kosovo Albanian leaders have promised they won’t declare independence before they get a nod from Washington. Which means that the US is assuming the functions of the UNO [United Nations], upsetting the entire system global stability hinges on. Which also means that the Europeans, who took delight in the Soviet breakup of the early 1990s, may now have to deal with the very same problem. The draft resolution on Kosovo, worked out by a group of Western countries and granting the region de-facto independence over strong objections from Belgrade, had earlier been rejected by Serbia and Russia. Moscow believes that any plan not based on direct agreements between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians is fraught with a very dangerous precedent, namely a revision of such a fundamental principle of intentional relations as the inviolability of a country’s internationally recognized borders. And still, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said it loud and clear that Washington remains foursquare behind the Kosovars’ desire to gain independence “this way or another”. Her deputy, Nicholas Burns, minced no words, saying that Kosovo would break away from Serbia already before the end of this year. “America has promised the Kosovans independence and that’s how it’s going to be,” Burns said. This means that the UN Security Council, whose resolutions once served as the basis for settling conflicts between states, can now sit back and see its authority being take up by Washington and its allies. Failing to secure Moscow’s consent to the illegal separation of 15% of Serbian territory, the Americans resorted to all sorts of political maneuvering with Condoleezza Rice’s meeting with the Albanian separatist leaders held in an atmosphere of mutual trust and full understanding of each other’s priorities. The Contact Group, which the Americans want to play the role of a UN Security Council minus a Russian veto, could be further imitation of a “fair” solution to the Kosovo problem. Comprising Russia, the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy and France, the Contact Group traditionally came up with proposals which it then submitted for consideration by the UN Security Council. Five of the six member-states are in favor of granting full independence to Kosovo completely ignoring Belgrade’s objections. Just why the Europeans are engaged in such a suicidal thing that could have truly catastrophic consequences for the whole world is hard to say. The Europeans, who took delight in the Soviet breakup of the early 1990s, may now have to deal with the very same problem. Small as it is, Kosovo can serve as a detonator for the huge bomb Europe sits on. If the genie of separatism is out, the UN Security Council will no longer be able to squeeze it back no matter how many resolutions it may take. The world order set out in 1945 will be no more. =============== Group Moderator: [Е-ПОШТА ЗАШТИЋЕНА] page at http://magazine.sorabia.net for more informations about current situation in Serbia http://www.sorabia.net Slusajte GLAS SORABIJE nas talk internet-radio (Serbian Only) http://radio.sorabia.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[Е-ПОШТА ЗАШТИЋЕНА] mailto:[Е-ПОШТА ЗАШТИЋЕНА] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [Е-ПОШТА ЗАШТИЋЕНА] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
