[sorabia] Serbia: West's Bullying Over Kosovo Won't Pass With Impunity

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Tanjug News Agency (Serbia)
September 26, 2007


“Serbia won’t take independence on chin” 


BELGRADE - Ex-Belgrade negotiating team member Leon
Kojen says Serbia must make it clear they won’t “take
it on the chin.”

"Until Belgrade banishes the impression that Serbia
will continue its Euro-Atlantic journey regardless of
Kosovo’s fate, the West will believe that imposed
independence is not such a bad solution," said the
former Belgrade team coordinator for Kosovo. 

"Behind almost all these western pledges that Kosovo
will be independent lies the theory that the Albanians
will be happy, that the Serbs will take it on the
chin, and that the western Balkans will receive new
impetus and move forward at a faster pace," Kojen told
daily Veèernje Novosti. 

"Serbia must say, more explicitly than it has thus
far, that that theory has no foundation - indeed in
today’s conditions it’s the constitutional and
political obligation of her highest institutions to do
so," said Kojen. 

With U.S. backing and EU understanding, the Kosovo
Albanians continue to dodge a genuine discussion over
Kosovo’s status. 

He surmised that the Troika in New York must finally
broach this subject with the Albanian side because
that was their chief function, while at the same time
shattering their misconception that independece was
the only thing they could talk about at the
negotiating table.  




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