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Ahtisaari to visit Kosovo
Martti Ahtisaari is to visit Kosovo’s capital Pristina on June 15 2009 for a celebration of the first anniversary of the constitution adopted after Kosovo unilaterally broke away from Serbia.
Ahtisaari, the former president of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize winner whose report opened the way for Kosovo to declare independence, is to be accompanied his former deputy mediators, Albert Rohan, Frank Wisner and Wolfgang Ischinger.
Plans are for Ahtisaari to address Kosovo’s parliament.
Serbia firmly rejects Kosovo’s February 2008 unilateral declaration of independence and the plan drawn up by Ahtisaari that preceded it.
Belgrade has been pursuing international support against Kosovo independence, with Moscow among its firmest backers, and in 2008 won United Nations General Assembly support for a request to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give an opinion on whether Kosovo’s self-declared independence was valid.
On May 30 2009, Serbia’s minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic reiterated his country’s view that the Ahtisaari plan was wholly unacceptable, both from a political and technical point of view, news website B92 reported from Belgrade.
Following assessments raised at a debate on Kosovo in Brussels on May 30 that at least the technical parts of the plan should be applied, Bogdanovic told Serbian news agency Beta that the Serbian parliament had rejected the plan in its entirety
On June 1, Serbian foreign minister Vuk Jeremic urged the members of the Organization of American States (OAS) that have not yet recognised Kosovo to remain neutral on the matter until the ICJ announces its decision.
It is not known how long the court will take to announce its opinion, but most observers believe that this could take years.
Beta quoted Jeremic as saying at the 39th OAS session, held in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the refraining from recognising Kosovo was "the only way to avoid the further undermining of legitimacy of the international system and the universal values common to us all".
On behalf of Serbia, Jeremic thanked "the vast majority of OAS member countries for their principled position on Kosovo," emphasising that their "support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a U.N. member state truly deserves praise."
Ahtisaari, the former president of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize winner whose report opened the way for Kosovo to declare independence, is to be accompanied his former deputy mediators, Albert Rohan, Frank Wisner and Wolfgang Ischinger.
Plans are for Ahtisaari to address Kosovo’s parliament.
Serbia firmly rejects Kosovo’s February 2008 unilateral declaration of independence and the plan drawn up by Ahtisaari that preceded it.
Belgrade has been pursuing international support against Kosovo independence, with Moscow among its firmest backers, and in 2008 won United Nations General Assembly support for a request to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give an opinion on whether Kosovo’s self-declared independence was valid.
On May 30 2009, Serbia’s minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic reiterated his country’s view that the Ahtisaari plan was wholly unacceptable, both from a political and technical point of view, news website B92 reported from Belgrade.
Following assessments raised at a debate on Kosovo in Brussels on May 30 that at least the technical parts of the plan should be applied, Bogdanovic told Serbian news agency Beta that the Serbian parliament had rejected the plan in its entirety
On June 1, Serbian foreign minister Vuk Jeremic urged the members of the Organization of American States (OAS) that have not yet recognised Kosovo to remain neutral on the matter until the ICJ announces its decision.
It is not known how long the court will take to announce its opinion, but most observers believe that this could take years.
Beta quoted Jeremic as saying at the 39th OAS session, held in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the refraining from recognising Kosovo was "the only way to avoid the further undermining of legitimacy of the international system and the universal values common to us all".
On behalf of Serbia, Jeremic thanked "the vast majority of OAS member countries for their principled position on Kosovo," emphasising that their "support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a U.N. member state truly deserves praise."
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Sorry, I just don't agree with Ahtisaari at all. He has created a much bigger problem and worked on a creation of a monster.
Are there any Serbs left in Kosovo since the 'implemenation' of Ahtisaari's plan?
As far as I can see, even one of the last ghetos for Serbs such as the northern town of Kosovska Mitrovica have been a constant target by Albanian provocative activities such as pushing their illegal housing developments into remaining Serbian neighborhoods of this enclave town. At the same time not giving over 200,000 Serbian refugees to return to [...]
Read the full comment their very own homes in Albanian run remainder of the Kosovo province.
Sorry but that is pure provocation and a silent extermination of the Serbian populace! i cannot agree with this man who has previously accepted bribes from albanian separatists and is putting on a blind eye to a silent holocaust of the Serbs of Kosovo province.
We as an international community have to correct our previous mistakes and help Serbian government work on dialogue with all representatives of this province and press harder the Albanian side to accept Serbian initiation for a civilized dialogue in search for a solution that can at least to some degree work for the good of both sides.
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Vica, just because you don't agree with what I say is no reason to accuse me of wanting to drink human blood.
Why do you Albanians always go on personal attacks when you cannnot debate with facts and reason.
The facts are that Albaniasn DID HAVE THEIR OWN SCHOOLS IN KOSOVO. This is a fact and you cannot change history.
Stop lying for once. Nobody is buying you rubbish any more. You can be proven wrong so easily. Are you saying that you did not have schools in your own [...]
Read the full comment language in Kosovo?
You also did not explain how did Serbs become such a miniroty in Kosovo in such a short time since the late 90s.
The facts speak for themselves and you my dear fellow are a liar.
Sure Serbs did commit some crimes but so did your own and Bosnian Muslims with a little help from their Arab brothers. You cannot deny that.
So don't come here pretending to be this victim when in war everyone is a victim and everyone is a criminal.
Stop being a hypocrite and start acknowledging your own crimes and the crimes of your Muslim brothers in Bosnia as well. You cannot tell me you did nothing to the Serbs.
i realy feel sorry to se that there are still people like this peggy wich have urges to drink blood , what the serbes did to kosovo people for 100 years its unimaginable during ocupation of republiC of kosovo for 100 years !!!!!!!!!!!! serbs drinked the blood of kosovo people for 100 years serbijans are bigest vampires of all human kind in this planet !!!!!!! 1 . what they did to sarajevo for 3 years bombing with artilery day and night ? killing thousands 2. what they did in srebrenica 8000 woman and children they masacred ?!! 3. what they [...]
Read the full comment did in kosovo for many years they killed and killed and killed as much as they could !!!!???? these people are pure and simple animals wilde animals first president ok serbijans must go to the graves of sarajevo , srebrenica , all over kosovo AND SAY AT LEAST SORRY
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"Albanians in Kosovo even had their own schools in their own language"
You show your ignorance by pointing out that this show servian generosity. Read the UN Charter of Human Rights
Urim, that is all lies and you know it.
Albanians in Kosovo even had their own schools in their own language. Does this sound like oppression to you? It certainly doesn't sound like that to me.
Tell me exactly how Serbs have been murdering you guys since the 1878? Go on, I challenge you.
On the contrary it was your people who joined Hitler in WW2 and murdered the Serbs. It was your people who systematically expelled the Serbs from Kosovo since 1945 alteit in small numbers. It was your people who [...]
Read the full comment formed a terrorist organization called KLA (yes they were on the terrorist list until they became useful to Clinton) and ethnically cleansed Kosovo from Serbs. How else do you explain 90% Albanian population there when just after WW2 the percentages just about even?
You can spread your hate and propaganda all you like, but you cannot change history.
Peggy> Kosovo's independence was the only option. Peggy would you like to be in a state where the state had been oppressed, robbed, raped, burned down houses and property, and killed your people since 1878 until 1999?
If you had Valat remain in that state, then you belong to the crowd of people in need of urgent assistance.
Perhaps Athisaari should stay in Kosovo for as long as his criminal buddies are in power. He is a joke and history will judge him harshly.
Marti, you cannot shove your immoral plan down Serbia's throat. It is illegal as well as immoral.