Young Serbian couple cools off in a Belgrade fountain during the scorching summer heat. July 21, 2007.
European MP: I Thank Russia!
“We are talking today about the territorial integrity of Serbia and future of its region, Kosovo, where each day fundamental human rights are breached, Serbian community is facing a humanitarian catastrophe and common Christian heritage of Europe is systematically destroyed by Islamic terrorists,” Sylwester Chruszcz, Polish Member of the European Parliament announced at the debate on the future of Kosovo in Strasbourg on July 11.
“I am surprised that events and the current situation in Kosovo are very often reported to the international public in a one-sided way. Unprecedented plan to grant independence to Kosovo means breaching territorial integrity of Serbia and further escalation of the conflict. A decision about separating Kosovo from Serbia threatens stability of the whole European continent and sets up the future ‘domino effect’ in many disputed ethnic areas in Europe,” the European MP said.
Chruszcz also expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that the EU authorities want to take over administration and regulation of this part of the Balkans “without any right or mandate to do so.” According to Chruszcz, “it is obvious that it is up to sovereign states and nations to decide about a future of Europe and the world in the framework of such international institutions like the United Nations. Therefore, I thank Russia and other countries that are preventing shifting borders in Europe at the UN Security Council level.”
Portuguese Diplomat: Disastrous U.S. Policy Toward Balkans Marked by Total Incompetence
José Cutileiro, former Portuguese diplomat and expert on the former Yugoslavia assessed in a text contributed to the Lisbon Express that the issue of Kosovo has been badly handled for over a decade and that the way to sustainable solution for the Serbian province leads through negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina.
Cutileiro, author of the peacekeeping plan for ending the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina that envisaged the partition of the former Yugoslav republic into cantons, assessed that since 1991, with the exception of the George Bush Senior administration which included Brent Scowcroft and Laurence Eagleburger who were familiar with Yugoslav situation, the U.S. policy towards the Balkan crisis has been a disaster. Unilateral recognition of Serbian Kosovo province would be the culmination of incompetence, he said.
Current Crises Caused by Europe’s Short Memory and American Support for Kosovo Terrorism
Writing for the Portuguese leading newspaper, Cutileiro stressed that Kosovo province problem, as it is today, had two causes - one in Europe, which suffers from a short memory span and Portuguese diplomat finds it strange that Europeans are behaving in such a way, and the other in the United States and its support for Kosovo terrorism and hasty independence.
Today’s world has to grapple with much more serious problems, like Cyprus, Cashmere or Palestine. Compared to these problems, Kosovo province is a “cat’s sneeze.”
Cutilero reminded that Albanian terrorists started a campaign of ferocious ethnic cleansing in Kosovo province in 1999, during NATO’s watch, that Kosovo is part of Serbia “which is a democratic country today” and that, despite the overwhelming international presence and administration of the Serbian province, there has been no progress in meeting the most basic democratic standards in Kosovo.
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