MOSCOW, April 29 (Xinhua) — Russia’s outgoing President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday Russia has not changed its position on the Kosovo situation and still views Kosovo’s independence unacceptable.
“We think that the unilateral declaration and recognition of independent Kosovo are unfair and illegal. We cannot accept the opinion that independent Kosovo has simply come to exist,” Putin told a press conference after talks with Greek Prime Minister Konstandinos Karamanlis.
If certain members of the international community “had not supplied weapons to the conflict zone and had not promised them independence, that would not have happened,” Putin said.
The president also called for the fulfillment of international laws, saying “only in that case small and big states will feel secure.”
Kosovo, the breakaway province of Serbia, has been under the UN administration since 1999.
The ethnic Albanian-dominated Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia on Feb. 17. Belgrade has said the proclamation is null and void.
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America’s recent suicidal policy (Feb. 17, 2008) at once has readjusted the entire focus of EU politics and, as a corollary, caused the Kosovo question to enter a new phase. It was now no longer a matter of Serbian reforms; nor was autonomy under Serbian territorial integrity given a passing thought.
On the contrary negotiations were entered into by the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, etc. which were predicated upon the dismemberment of Serbia. The best available evidence as to the terms of the “pact” places the Serbian province of Kosovo within the zone of influence alloted to America — Camp Bondsteel — and assigns other parts to EU control, thus creating (ipso facto) the first NATO state.
American presidents, namely Clinton and Bush, have been by far the worst scourge that our people have ever known. Prolific in promises, but sterile in execution, America abstains from living up to her guarantees (made at both Dayton and Manhattan), and continues to promote an abomination in the Serbian province of Kosovo — the bogus independence declared by Pristina’s Albanian majority, with blatant Anglo-American complicity and total disregard of the other, greater majority — the Serbs.
The inevitable logic of events has forced Russia (and China and many other nations) to come to Serbia’s defense. Hopefully a military intervention by Russia and China will bring ballast to the region.
If not, the Serbs and the Roma in Kosovo will continue to remain under the yoke of foreign rule for a long time to come. Humanity cannot turn a deaf ear to a plea which also embodies a legitimate national aspiration of Serbia and its Serbian province of Kosovo to remain undivided. Ethnically we consitute a race and therefore possess the primary element of homogeneousness. We have a language of our own and a literature of our own and traditions of our own hallowed by time and sanctified by the blood of countless martyrs in Kosovo and other parts of the Balkans, including Jasenovac, where 700,000 of our people perished at the hands of the Croatian Ustashi. In the Balkans, like the Orient, religion and nationality are synonymous terms. The Serbs have been persecuted because of their Christian religion but have preferred death to apostasy. There, with practical unanimity, the entire Christian population owes allegiance to the Serbian Orthodox Church, whose pope is Patriarch Pavle. Riveted together by a community of sufferings, welded into one compact unit by the torch and flame of the Turkish despoiler, hammered into an indissoluble confraternity by the blows of the Islamic tyrant, when their bodies are not cut asunder by his bayonet, and fortified by the prayers of their dead, the Serbs of today know but one God, but one church, but one religion and owe apostolic fealty to but one spiritual leader.
Historically a nation, with a past replete with glorious achievements, we have clung as tenaciously to our national aspirations as we have to the tenets of our creed. Karageorge took us out of bondage in 1804 and showed that Ottoman Turk had a weakness. In 1914 Gavrilo Princip fired a shot in Sarajevo that consequently brought the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire down to its knees, and liberated not only the Serb, but the Croat, the Slovene, the Slovaks, the Romanian, the Czech, the Ukrainian, the Rom, and many others who were in servitude to the dual monarchy of the Hapsburgs.
Uniting all the essential prerequisites of an independent existence it becomes manifest that Serbia is entitled to keep its borders sovereign, intact and be admitted into the comity of nations unless her people have, nothwithstanding their religious loyalty, failed in other essentials.
Comment by Michel — April 30, 2008 #
Great comment by Michel! Exactly right…too bad this country of “freedom lover’s” can’t figure this out. That’s why the Serbs don’t need to hire PR firms to make their case(too expensive also)….the history of Serbia speaks for itself…people don’t want to take the time to learn this…it’s their(our) loss.Shame on this once great country of America.
Comment by Kingsley — April 30, 2008 #