The U.S. envoy to Kosovo is urging Arab governments to invest in Europe’s newest Muslim-majority nation.
Ambassador Frank G. Wisner called on the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to build on its statement of support issued after Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on Feb. 17.
“I think Kosovars are ready for that and want it,” Mr. Wisner told America.gov, a U.S. State Department Web site.
Mr. Wisner, a former ambassador to India, the Philippines and Zambia, as well as to the OIC, argued that Kosovo is a good place for foreign investment.
“It’s a good investment in the future,” he said. “It’s a profitable investment in terms of the eventual economic evolution of southeastern Europe, and I hope a strong economic signal will accompany a political signal.”
He argued that the creation of the Kosovo republic has implications beyond Europe.
“To be able to secure a Muslim-majority state inside the European whole is a terrific signal that the Muslim world and the non-Muslim word can live side by side in peace and cooperation, one with the other,” he said.
“I believe that for most of the Muslim world, it’s very important that one looks at [Kosovo] as a matter of justice.”
So far, however, Kosovo’s declaration of independence has sparked rioting from Serbs, who consider the ancient province part of Serbia’s historical heritage. Russia, Serbia’s main ally, has criticized the United States and other nations for recognizing Kosovo.
Kosovar militants rebelled against Serbian domination in 1999 but were crushed by a fierce Serbian counteroffensive that led to charges of “ethnic cleansing” against Kosovars and the intervention of NATO forces. Since 2004, Kosovo was administered by the United Nations.
FACTBOX
Centuries of attampts to detach Kosovo from Serbs
March 18, 2008
SERBIANNA
Prior to the Roman rule, Kosovo was inhabited by Dardanian tribes who were often at war with the Greek Kingdom of Philip of Macedon.
During the Roman times, Illyrian and Thracian tribes occupied the area.
In the 6th century, with migration of Slavs from north and their subsequent conversion to Christianity, Kosovo becomes the cultural epicenter of the Serbian nation.
In 1389, Islamic horde invades Serbia and Serbian defenders get defeated in Kosovo. Muslims behead Serbian leaders, loot property, steal Serbian women and put the territory unded laws of Jihad.
Kosovo is systematically depopulated by Muslims via expulsions, torture, seizure of property, killing and otherwise intolerable living condition under Islamic rule that views Christians and Jews as inferior subjects.
Muslims invite mountain tribesman from the high planes of Albania to occupy the confiscated Serbian lands in exchange for their conversion into Islam.
Lured by free land, many Albanian clans cross into Serbia and occupy Kosovo.
In June 1911 Islamic Caliph visited Kosovo to celebrate the defeat and slavery of Serbs and hundreds of thousands of Albanians came into the cities to cheer the Islamic Sultan Mehmet V’s Visit who declared Jihad on Christian nations on the eve of WWI.
In both World Wars, Serbia is on the side of victorious allies while local Albanians join the axis powers.
In WWII, Kosovo Albanians form NAZI extermination units that round up Jews and Serbs for killing. Hundreds of thousands of Serbs were driven off by Islamic Albanian terror.
After the WWII, communists take over Serbia and effectively freeze Kosovo to the outcomes achieved during the Islamic Albanian Nazi terror.
In 1966, communists remove their security chief responsible for freezing the Kosovo conflict and the resurgent Islamic nationalists, aided from Albania, resume ethnic cleansing of the Serbian population.
In 1981, anticipating a break up of Yugoslavia, Muslim Albanian mob goes on a rampage across Kosovo demanding that the province becomes a Republic so that they can acquire and independent state once Yugoslavia breaks up.
In 1989, Serbian dictator Milosevic revokes Kosovo’s autonomy.
In 1998, Islamic Albanian terrorists led by the current so-called Kosovo Prime MInister Hasim Taci, kill policemen across Kosovo to elicit a violent response by the Serbian authorities in hopes that one of the responses would be violent enough so that NATO troops can attack Serbia.
In 1999, Islamic Albanian terrorists stage a massacre of their own people in the village of Racak and West was quick to claim that it was a Serbian atrocity for which NATO plans to attack Serbia.
In March 1999, NATO attacks Serbia and after 78 days of bombing a UN Resolution 1244 was passed ending the bombing.
UN Resolution 1244 defines Kosovo as a Serbian sovereign territory.
In 2004, Islamic Albanian terrorists initiate a widespread Pogrom of Serbs across the province killing many Serbs and destroying numerous churches as NATO troops stand by and observe the violence.
In 2006, Washington initiates negotiations with a predetermined outcome of an independent Kosovo in hopes that the Belgrade will agree to it.
In 2008, Washington says that further negotiations on Kosovo’s status are a waste of time, convinces its European allies to recognize Kosovo’s illegal declaration of independence and says that Serbia is powerless to do anything about it because NATO troops are stronger then Serbian.
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The U.S. envoy to Kosovo should have his head examined. No, better still, the entire staff of U.S. policy-makers, including Bush and Cheney for coninuously preaching lies. Example, today’s assessment of Iraq after five years of occupation…. need we say more?
Comment by Michel — March 19, 2008 #