WASHINGTON — John Sitilides from the Woodrow Wilson Center says that the U:S. and EU have not found a satisfactory solution for Kosovo.
Speaking of the views of the U.S. presidential candidates towards Serbia and Kosovo, the Center’s chairman of the board told Voice of America that the three challengers were very keen to consolidate a free, prosperous and safe Europe.
“That aim cannot be achieved while an unsolved problem persists, such as Kosovo’s future and the European integration of the Balkan countries. I’d say that many people believe that the U.S. and Western Europe have not found the most satisfactory solution to the Kosovo question. Take the problem of legal precedent within international law, which is a clear pointer to the current and maybe even greater future rift within the international community,” explained Sitilides.
He added that “Kosovo is now at stake, but in the future it could be Kurdistan in northern Iraq, Ossetia and Abkhazia, Chechnya in Russia, Corsica in France, and the most dangerous could be Kashmir, because of the potential for nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan.
“Given that Kosovo has achieved independence, one should try to ensure that it and the region remain secure, and this could be accomplished by, among other things, greater engagement on the part of the Serbs. The West has thus far looked to introduce penalty measures against Belgrade, rather than promote Serbia’s full European integration, which I don’t think is all that effective,” summed up the analyst.
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I think all Serbs are bemoaning what the Bush administration did! I disagree with John Sitilides comment: “Given that Kosovo has achieved independence….” The Serbian province of Kosovo has been independent even under Serb administration. After all, Albanians were able to organize their terrorist cells in Kosovo, solicit American and NATO help, and eventually “with a stroke of the pen” steal Kosovo from the Serbs with their bogus UDI! Maybe the Sitilides can shed some light on the Bush Administration’s meaning of the word “independence”? In my dictionary, it means “freedom and control of others”. The word “others,” means America and NATO-member states. So get hell out of Kosovo!
Comment by Michel — May 27, 2008 #