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Serbia slams Macedonia’s establishment of diplomatic relations with Kosovo

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Serbia slams Macedonia’s establishment of diplomatic relations with Kosovo

Serbian foreign minister Vuk Jeremic.

The signing of the October 17 2009 agreement between Macedonia and Kosovo to establish diplomatic relations will exacerbate tensions between Skopje and Belgrade, Serbian ministers said.
 
Kosovo foreign minister Skender Hyseni and his Macedonian counterpart Antonio Milososki signed the agreement after the two countries resolved their border dispute.
 
Serbian foreign minister Vuk Jeremic said that the decision by Macedonia’s government was a "pity" and said that the decision would "have consequences".
 
"For border demarcation issues with Serbia, neighboring countries can only talk with the government in Belgrade," Jeremic said.
 
Belgrade has refused to recognise Kosovo’s February 2008 unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia.
 
Serbian minister for Kosovo Oliver Ivanovic said that the decision by the Macedonian parliament to ratify the agreement with Kosovo "might solve the boundary problem, but this will bring additional tensions to the already fragile relations between Serbia and Macedonia".
 
Macedonian authorities should understand that it was in their own strategic interest to have good relations with Serbia, Ivanovic said.
 

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Anonymous periclis greece Tue, Nov 10 2009 20:01 CET

too all fyromanian,you now what means macedonia;;;;you are slavs and you now this better then me.propagant is not history.kiro gligorof see on greece press 10 days ago, we are slavs and we come on this area later.iff you thing you are sirius contry,one says we are macedonia other we are not we are slavs,a thing you nead doctor.butt you must now all world is not stupit too belliev your propagant.you are lierer and stealer,so stay out of nato, e.u,and live with your fantasma.macedonia olways greece.

Anonymous George II Sun, Nov 08 2009 19:23 CET

Yes, Danielle, this is a bit of awkward "ethnic baggage" for the present Greek government (successors to the Greek govt, of 1924 that did the "ethnic cleansing") to cope with. But it isn't really part of the current "name" debate.

Anonymous Danielle Sun, Nov 08 2009 18:54 CET

To George II,you are right what I meant.But there is one more thing must be told.In order to accomodate those refugees from Asia Minor,the Greek government started the cleansing of the Macedonian population.The Greek government displaced large population to Bulgaria for reasons that they were identifying themselfs as Macedonians.Macedonians were killed in order to take land for these Christian Turks(Pontious)to re-setle them.When I visited my home town,I went to see my house I was borne,the tenants are Pontious,they did allowed me to see my home with some aprehansion.Look,the a free State as Macedonia has the right for first time to [...]

Read the full comment search its roots,history that has been stolen from us.Naturaly,our neighbours are in a state of panic because it does not belong to them.The rightful owners are reclaiming what is theirs.

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Anonymous George II Sat, Oct 31 2009 13:52 CET

Periclis - I think the point that Danielle is making is that the Greek population from Pontus (in Asia Minor) were all returned to Greece in 1924 as part of the "population exchanges" agreed under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.

I understand that most of the Greek Pontus refugees ("Pontians") were re-settled in the northern part of Greek Macedonia, close to the border with what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Jugoslavija after 1929).

Hope this is factually helpful - meanwhile, do you agree, Danielle ?

Anonymous periclis greece Wed, Oct 28 2009 19:02 CET

danielle you thing pontioi is not greece;if you now buzantioum empire,pontoi have seam dialect ass greece if you now.propagand is not history,before 1913 ther is macedonian contry;;were;tito give that name too fyros part [today].you are slavs sorry nothing close with macedonia.olso all part on greece have difreent name like pelloponisos,thracy,ypyros,macedonia .that means for you is not greece;;

Anonymous Danielle Tue, Oct 27 2009 23:42 CET

To Periclis.You claim that you are Greek Macedonian?Do you mean Pontios?Can you find one Greek in "Ovcharani" near Lerin(Florina)?I will kneel to you if youy can.In Prespa there are some Prosfigi,we call them foreigners.If you do live in Macedonia(Northern Greece) you my friend are Pontios.You are not Macedonia and for that matter you are not even Greek.Sorry to disapoint you.

Anonymous Danielle Tue, Oct 27 2009 23:42 CET

To Periclis.You claim that you are Greek Macedonian?Do you mean Pontios?Can you find one Greek in "Ovcharani" near Lerin(Florina)?I will kneel to you if youy can.In Prespa there are some Prosfigi,we call them foreigners.If you do live in Macedonia(Northern Greece) you my friend are Pontios.You are not Macedonia and for that matter you are not even Greek.Sorry to disapoint you.

Anonymous Peggy Sat, Oct 24 2009 00:57 CET

Macedonia is only digging their own grave by doing this.
There is no threat from Serbia but there is a great threat from Albanians.

FYROM has turned their back on Serbia completely by doing this and Albanians will not thank but in a way they will not be happy about. Now that FYROM is isolated from their Orthodox brothers (Serbia, Greece) they are vulnerable to Albanian intimidation and soon enough they will be taking orders from their Albanian citizens.
Albanians don't even hide this. They are openly saying that they will take [...]

Read the full comment Skopje. Obviously not by force as this will not be tolerated but by pressure and bullying which has got them this far in that country.

You have just burned your bridges.

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Anonymous Albanian Alexander Thu, Oct 22 2009 14:23 CET

Yes today we have our border with macedonia tomorrow the famous Albanian Alexander Veliki will be erected in the middle of Skopje with Macedonian money thanks to Gruevski and co. Soon many of our Albanian brothers in Macedonia will have free access into Kosovo for anything they want. Thankyou Macedonia this way we both win. Many people disagree that we exist but it is the same with Macedonia like us you are also born not long ago before you also had no history. We know here in Kosovo that most people in Macedonia belong to Bulgarian race and the rest [...]

Read the full comment are mainly Albanians, Turks, Vlachs, greeks, Romas. But the best is that our 2 young countries can work together for a good future. My friend Zlatko is a Bulgarian who lives in Skopje and owns a internet bar where many young Bulgarians gather and talk. Everytime I visit Skopje we always have a good time with our Macedonian friends we go and dance all their favourite Bulgarian songs and drink strong Albanian plum schnapps. It is a good life for all of us if politics keeps all the Bulgarian people of macedonia and and all the Albanians of Kosovo working together.

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Anonymous What a joke Thu, Oct 22 2009 01:36 CET

I'm Greek and I am continuing to have an unfavorable opinion of Serbia. What has Serbia done for Greece in the last 50 years let alone the last 5-10. I'll tell you what....NOTHING.

If Serbs do not want to see an increasing amount of Hellenes that don't give a rats @ss about Serbsand Serbia then do something for Greece. After all your government is supposed to be representing YOU in a democracy, so if we're brothers why do you recognize Skopje as Republic of Macedonia? Why doesn't Serbia do more for Greece?

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Read the full comment Greece said no to NATO during the bombings, has not established relations with Kosovo or even recognized it and the list goes on and on. My advice would be to relinquish recognition of Skopje as Macedonia and recognize them as FYROM because to tell you the truth recognition of Kosovo by Greece might be in the future and Greece also might not be so kind if another conflict involving Serbia started. Greece definitely can't make that mistake again as it came with huge cost.

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Anonymous Jurgan Futal Tue, Oct 20 2009 18:10 CET

Serbia should simply withdraw recognition of FYROM the way Mexico this year. It will lose nothing by doing so and send FYROM a clear message.

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Anonymous George II Tue, Oct 20 2009 11:23 CET

"What is wrong with the Balkans is its dreadfully long memories with ancient scores to settle" - Lord Paddy Ashdown, UN High Representative in Bosnia 2002-2006.

The whole original point of the EU back in 1957 was to bury the age-old quarrel between France and Germany, which it successfully did. Extending the EU was meant to do the same thing eastwards and southwards.

In this context what George says below is positively unhelpful, if not worse. Dredging up ancient feuds and the Ottoman occupation (which ended rather a long time ago) are [...]

Read the full comment extremely unhelpful in today's world - that is, if George lives in it !

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Anonymous Nenad Tue, Oct 20 2009 03:58 CET

It is a shame that Macedonia had to do this. For over 15 years Macedonia has tried to secure the border with Serbian Kosovo region, which was a transit point for the KLA and harbors many smuggling routes. If Serbia and Macedonia secured the border back then, we wouldn't be in this position today.

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Anonymous danielle Mon, Oct 19 2009 23:38 CET

Yes, Serbia and Greece are the best of friends.Do you re-call when Milosovic and his Greek counterpart were planning to divide the Republic of Macedonia?Greece backedown due to preassure from EU and NATO.Now than,Macedonia is an independent State,and has the right to have relations with whom they like,same as other nations on this earth.One of you say that Albania existed before all Balkan countries,another one says Macedonia is Greek,also Alexander being Greek.A short answer to both of you;On both items you are wrong.Macedonia existed even before Alexander of Macedonia.Second issue,Macedonia never belonged to Greece,it is the other way,Hellens who are [...]

Read the full comment none existant were under Macedonian yoke.Greece obtained the Aegean part of Macedonia illigaly in 1913.Now,you can keep dreaming that Macedonia ever belonged to Greece.Greece never existed prior to 1834.Learn your history,not politics.

Anonymous Scipio Africanus Mon, Oct 19 2009 23:29 CET

To whom it might concern.
The Council of Europe appointed Swiss senator Dick Marty to investigate charges that Kosovo Albanian terrorist KLA (UCK) were using kidnapped Kosovo-Metohija Serbs to harvest their organs for sale during and after the civil war in southern Serbian province.
The charges that Kosovo Albanians, led by the war criminals currently governing Kosovo and Metohija province — Hashim Thaci, Agim Ceku and Ramush Haradinaj — had profited from selling human organs of abducted Serbs were first brought forth in the book
“The Hunt:Meand the War Criminals” by Carla Del Ponte, [...]

Read the full comment former chief prosecutor of the war crimes tribunal in the Hague.
Responding to requests by the Russian Federation, the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly decided that the charges merit a full investigation. Dick Marty, a Swiss lawyer who became famous for investigating secret torture chambers and rendition flights through Europe, was asked by the 47-nation pan-European organization to investigate the most morbid chain of war crimes after the WWII.

Anonymous Scipio Africanus Mon, Oct 19 2009 23:29 CET

To whom it might concern.
The Council of Europe appointed Swiss senator Dick Marty to investigate charges that Kosovo Albanian terrorist KLA (UCK) were using kidnapped Kosovo-Metohija Serbs to harvest their organs for sale during and after the civil war in southern Serbian province.
The charges that Kosovo Albanians, led by the war criminals currently governing Kosovo and Metohija province — Hashim Thaci, Agim Ceku and Ramush Haradinaj — had profited from selling human organs of abducted Serbs were first brought forth in the book
“The Hunt:Meand the War Criminals” by Carla Del Ponte, [...]

Read the full comment former chief prosecutor of the war crimes tribunal in the Hague.
Responding to requests by the Russian Federation, the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly decided that the charges merit a full investigation. Dick Marty, a Swiss lawyer who became famous for investigating secret torture chambers and rendition flights through Europe, was asked by the 47-nation pan-European organization to investigate the most morbid chain of war crimes after the WWII.

Anonymous Peggy Mon, Oct 19 2009 23:05 CET

Ilir here is what you wrote:

"It's proper crazy making capital with "French boy Sorry SHOW", when your soldiers left many 100 thousand killed civilians across Balkan, and for this you never felt the minimum of sorrow. Never asked a pardon.

You are a monster nation!!!! "

First don't compare what happens in peace time to war. Two different situations entirely.
What do you think KLA, Ustashi and Islamic fanatics were doing during the 90S? Knitting socks or killed all Serbs they came across?
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Read the full comment People like Oric, Ceku, Snake, Gotovina and many others.

Second, how many Serbs were killed since the war ended in Kosovo? Why continue to kill Serbs after the war? Why in 2004 go on a frenzy and burn churches and monasteries? The war was over. Why destroy Serbian graves?
Are the dead now guilty as well so their graves should be vandalised?
Now who is a monster?

Anonymous Peggy Mon, Oct 19 2009 22:58 CET

Vangeli, all I can say is thank God that most Greeks don't feel the way you do.
Serbs and Greeks enjoy a great friendship in Europe as well as all over the world.

I suppose you would rather be in some sort of alliance with FYROM, Albanians or Turks. Good for you. Feel free to do that.

Yes Greece is for the Greeks. I fully support that. Serbs are not trying to change that.
Is the name the only thing you are so hostile towards Serb or is [...]

Read the full comment there something else? I agree, it was wrong to recognise any name not acceptable to Greece and you will find that most Serbs think this way but Serbs and Greeks need each other. No man is a mountain and no country can stand alone.

If you think that you don't have a friend in Serbia, feel free to befriend your other neighbours. Who do you think is more suitable?

Anonymous Peggy Mon, Oct 19 2009 22:52 CET

Future Akt, you missed one name.
Dusko Popov. Don't forget him.

Anonymous Peggy Mon, Oct 19 2009 22:50 CET


George II

Mon, Oct 19 2009 18:07 CET

"FuturAkt - how about Karadzic, Mladic, and the butchers of Srebrenica and Vukovar as eminent Serbs ? Or Gavril Princip, who started the first World War and thereby killed 5 million people ?"

Princip only killed one man not five million people and BTW he is considered a hero. His footsteps are permanantly in cement in the spot he stood when he fired his shot and there is a plaque with his name on it telling what [...]

Read the full comment happened. You may thing badly of him but nobody else does. He started something worth fighting for. Freedom from Austrohungarian opression. If this is insulting your people in some way, TOUGH.

He is remembered well in history regardless what you say.

Serbs committed crimes in the former Yugoslavia just like the other two sides did. The crimes committed by some Serbs are no match for what Croatians and UCK did (your hero Ceku) but for political reasons only Serbs are accused. Nothing to do with truth or justice, but all to do with politics.

Great people, the Serbs, as long as you stay a very long way from them indeed.

Anonymous Peggy Mon, Oct 19 2009 22:44 CET

Sami Blushati, what are you on man?

First, your post has absolutely NOTHING with the article and second what fairy tale book did you get all this from?

Anonymous Sami Bushati Mon, Oct 19 2009 20:47 CET

By the way, Jeremic obviously has an Illyrian face. I would love to hear otherwise from any Slavophiles out there, but this guy is not Slav. Neither is Tadic, and sadly, neither is Karadzic. These are all partially culturally Slavicized Illyrians who's raison d'etre stems from the religious wars of the middle ages. They are unconscious soldiers of the medieval crusades, nothing more. Dinosaurs, in other words.

Don't think we don't see exactly what is going on, from its true cultural and ethnic roots to the political and economic realities on the ground in the present. [...]

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Albanians, keep your eyes wide open. These fanatics are basically impotent at this point, but that makes them desperate to fabricate illusions or events to defend their interests (even if it means selling their natural resources to Russia for 50 cents on the dollar, just last year).

Not a bright bunch, but still dangerous.

Anonymous Sami Bushati Mon, Oct 19 2009 20:41 CET

Lots of really dumb people in this forum.

Albanians & Greeks are in the Balkans long before any Slavs arrived. Kosovo and the rest of the former Yugoslavia were part of Illyria long ago.

So-called "ethnic Serbs" are mostly Illyrian in origin anyway, but they have lost their ancient language, while retaining some of the customs. (which is why we have so much in common, greeks, albanians, slavs)

Sadly, Serbs are the most fanatically religious and extremist element in the Balkans - they continue to see the world [...]

Read the full comment entirely through a medieval prism and they continue to celebrate Prince Lazarus as a hero, even though he lost to the Turks more than 600 years ago. I bring this up because of the peculiar fact that according to cherished Serbian mythology (today, by all accounts, a completely dysfunctional nearly psychotic narrative), Prince Lazarus did not lose, he simply chose to end his battle on earth and take up the greater battle in heaven :-o

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Does this not seem to resonate with the Serbian mentality of today? Well, miraculously, it does... any objective observer notes the persistence madness of denial of the facts on the ground as well as a notion of ethnic or cultural superiority protected by a divine calling.

Tragic.

There is no room for fanatical religion of any kind in our region anymore. We must focus on our economic and social development and learn to get along, we have enough problems as it is.

Serbs wake up, move on. Kosovo will never again be part of Serbia, and all your focus on this subject is only reinforcing your reputation as the least rational culture in Europe. (not to mention the poorest, which is self-imposed, considering how well Yugoslavia was doing not so long ago.)

Shame.

The upside is that as this 19th century nationalist propaganda farce continues to be exposed, our region may someday finally be rid of these fanatical elements.

Anyway, peace from Albanians to our Balkan brothers in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, and yes Serbia. Screw all this infighting. It's just dumb.

Anonymous Kosovo is Serbia Mon, Oct 19 2009 20:11 CET

This was a big mistake and its will come like a bumerang to Fyrom all this in some years from now.Serbs and Greeks are brothers.Any Greek who says the oposite simply does nothave any Serbian friends in the reall life to discuss this whole matter about Fyrom and cant understant why all this happened.I forgive them for this its ok..Serbs and Greeks are together and whoever like it for the rest we dont care!!

Kosovo is Serbia.

Anonymous Branimir Maksimovic Mon, Oct 19 2009 19:25 CET

On what principles should the Albanians be given the right of independance in Kosovo. On the basis that the KLA was on the terrosist list up until 1997 and was only taken off once the funds raised by the albanian diaspora effectivly changed the interests of the Americans. Or on the basis of to this day having done the good deed of cleansing 250000 serbs from Kosovo and Metohija who are still dispalced and many homeless. Mayby you were thinking that such rights should be granted because they supplied organs which were taken out of Serbs to supply the sick [...]

Read the full comment and needy around the world. Im not sure? im confused.!! Mayby the bosniaks who carry names such as vukmirovic, petrovic to mention just a few, who through 500 years were forcefully islamised by the way of torture, rape, genocide. Or mayby the 700000 serbs killed in jasenovac by Croat and Muslims in WW2, just mayby?

BalkanJustice what you need is a library, there you can provide yourself with some knowledge. When doing so, try to remember all the pathetic arguments and comments you said and wrote around the world, then creep up into a corner and share the stupidity your brain has to offer with the wall.

Speaking of policies of the 80's and 90's, that was only a counter measure to the policies and camps set up by croats inside Yugoslavia and outside Yugoslavia, True fact, in australia and how in the 70's the Croats almost poisoned the waragamba dam which is drinking water to half of sydney. Every you stupid people say carries no wieght, or simple logic to it. All you do, is open up the newspaper, read 500 words, memorise it, come to a forum, share the same details and believe you know it all. But never have you sat down, studied, informed yourselves quite thouroughly the backround and reasons surrounding all of this.

im 23, since i was 9 ive been reading daily for 2 to 3 hours on europe balkans, all its peoples, its nations, the worlds, its religions, interests, communities, and believe me if you only took 1 week to do the same, you would be ashamed of they your brain was thinking in the past and the comments your fast mouth made before knowing and understaning what is was talking about.

The greeks and Serbs like it or not are brothers. Individuals like yourself do not impact on the greater interests and facts. Serbs and Greeks just celebrated 650 years since the last time a single battle was endured between these people, Serbia brought its Religion from greece via Sveti Sava, Serbia and Greece lived under the Byzantine empire for many years, The greeks were dramatically influenced by the Slavs who today share much in common except for language. Car Dusan was the only ruler of the byzantine empire that the greeks accepted to rule over them without force but by will, as he saw them as brothers. As we move out of the middle ages and into the time of where politics rules. Greece did not allow Nato to use its airspace or airports for the bombardment of Serbia during the illegal 78 day raids on Serbia during 1999. Greece played the second most effecrive and major role after serbia in keeping alive the orthodox faith and funding the Krajina , Bosnia and Kosovo serbs from being completly cleansed. Little matters such as the fires in greece, Serbia supplied the most helicopters firefighters then any other nation to greece. No other 2 people have more joint organisations then the serbs and greeks. The football clubs in these nations all share mutual respect and between one another have a brother team in each country. This is only mentioning a few facts from the middle ages and the NEW DAY AND AGE you choose to comment on. But if you do not see yourself as a friend of ours, or as our nations as brother and sister nations, then you are the minority and you do not understand the importance and significance this relationship has played in the make up and forming of the entire balkans its peoples its religions and history.

Anonymous BalkanJustice Mon, Oct 19 2009 18:29 CET

Response to George:

"Serbs were defending themselves from fascist nazi ustashi, muhajadeen islamic extremists, kla criminal terrorists. albania is nation of criminals, arms & heroin smugglers, human traffickers and murdering monsters."

Defending themselves by committing genocide against unarmed Bosniak civilians in Srebrenica? Defending themselves by raping tens of thousands of Bosniak civilian women? Defending themselves by targeting Bosnian civilians in Sarajevo for nearly four years? Defending themselves by setting up concentration camps and rape camps in Bosnia? Defending themselves by locking innocent and defenseless civilians including children into houses and then burning [...]

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The simple fact is that Serbian policy in the late 80s and the entire 90s was a fascist policy whose goal was to destroy multi-ethnic countries and create an ethnically pure "Greater Serbian" state by the means of terror, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.

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Anonymous FutureAkt Mon, Oct 19 2009 17:48 CET

Serbs:

Nikola Tesla - inventor of electric curent, x-ray, radio wave - all esency of modern sistems;

Milutin Milankovic - gratest meteorologist ever;

Vlade Divac - :)

Ivo Andric - Nobel Prize

Petar Petrovic Njegos - writer and philosopher

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Give me 1 albanian name!


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Anonymous Vangeli Mon, Oct 19 2009 17:16 CET

Peggy, YES I am Greek and Greek Orthodox. And NO I am not Albanian or a supporter of Albania. I'd like to ask you, how is Serbia is a "BROTHER" to Greece? If Serbia was a "BROTHER" 'to Greece then they wouldn't of recognised FYRO'M' as 'Republic of Macedonia'. It's that simple. If Muslim Albanians and Orthodox Serbs want to spill their own blood over Kosovo then what interest is that of Greece? This isn't the Middle Ages. It's the 21st Century and things are done POLITICALLY in this day and age. Greece should follow its interests and they are [...]

Read the full comment not with Serbia, nor Albania for that matter.

Alexander Schults, firstly, do you understand WHY Serbs have never had friends in the Balkans? Secondly, you talk about the "Serbian sacrifice". Could you be more specific as to what your talking about? As I remember it, Greece has been in the Balkans a lot longer than Serbia and fought for a lot more SACRIFICES than Serbia. Also, I suggest before you talk about Albanians in Greece, you should turn to your own country first. You just lost a whole province to Albanians. I don't want you to think that I am Anti-Serb, because I am not. I just don't believe that Greece should treat Serbia any different to how it treats Albania, FYRO'M' and Turkey. Lastly, my friend, Macedonia WAS, IS, and ALWAYS WILL BE Greek.

Greece for the Greeks

Anonymous George Mon, Oct 19 2009 16:48 CET

Serbs were defending themselves from fascist nazi ustashi, muhajadeen islamic extremists, kla criminal terrorists. albania is nation of criminals, arms & heroin smugglers, human traffickers and murdering monsters.

Anonymous periclis Mon, Oct 19 2009 16:32 CET

fyromanian tell me wat mens macedonia you now.becauce is greece name.alexantros,filipos,greec name.the macedonian speak greece so you are repuplic from nothinc.look your realy history.macedonia olways greece.

Anonymous Sami Bushati Mon, Oct 19 2009 16:29 CET

Kosovo Je Dardania!

Anonymous periclis Mon, Oct 19 2009 16:11 CET

i am greek macedonian fyromanian is slavs and olways be....

Anonymous Ilir Mon, Oct 19 2009 16:04 CET

Dear Peggy,

It's really very awful thinking how fast you forget for all atrocities you caused in Balkan.

No any nation is comparable to you.

For good sake Everybody fear being with Serbia. Croat's, Sloven's, Bosnian's, Hungarian's, Montenegrin's, Albanian's and everybody else.

It's proper crazy making capital with "French boy Sorry SHOW", when your soldiers left many 100 thousand killed civilians across Balkan, and for this you never felt the minimum of sorrow. Never asked a pardon.

You are a [...]

Read the full comment monster nation!!!!

Anonymous Alban.kcomment@gmail.com Mon, Oct 19 2009 15:45 CET

Dear george,

What catastrophe you mean????

Anonymous George Mon, Oct 19 2009 15:01 CET

Aries

And it will spread to other areas, albanians with their false illyrian idealogy work towards a greater albania carving out sovereign nation states. An idelogy which will bring a catastrophe to albania

Anonymous George Mon, Oct 19 2009 14:53 CET

FYROM has established diplomatic ties with an illegal entity. Kosovo is a part of the Republic of Serbia as a fact of internatinal law. UNSC 1244 protects Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity INCLUDING Kosovo.

KOSOVO IS SERBIA

Anonymous Aries Mon, Oct 19 2009 14:37 CET

Dear Alexander.
When your neighbor's house is on fire you must take some precaution
otherwise it will spead into yours in no-time.

Anonymous Peggy Mon, Oct 19 2009 14:24 CET

Deyan

Mon, Oct 19 2009 13:02 CET

" Serbs are stuborn beings, who can't accept change. They believe they are superior to all of mankind, and being Serbian is a blessing from god. They have their own church that preaches racism, nationalism and hatred. Look in the news against all the violence against other nationalities, the latest the death of the french soccer fan."

Can you prove any of this? A soccer fan is murdered and yes it is a crime but this goes on all over the [...]

Read the full comment world. Take a look at Kosovo where Serbs get killed often enough and nobody even tries to investigate. Nothing to do with soccer violence but everything with racial hatred by Albanians. And here you are talking about some dencency. You, the very people who go on a murderous rampage and burn hundreds of churches and monasteries. You the people who vandalise Serbian graves. Not even the dead are spared by you lot and you dare to come here and talk about racism.
Pull your head in because you have a lot to be ashamed of. You of all people cannot talk.

You make a lot of accusations but you cannot back up any of it except for soccer violence. The rest is all bull. Show me some evidence if you can.

Anonymous Alexander Schults Mon, Oct 19 2009 14:06 CET

Its so funny reading these comments, don't u people have anything better to do in Ur lives than worry about Serbian province of kosovo, all i see is just another occupation, by NATO, installing puppet crime government just like Europe under Hitler. History shows true traitors of Yugoslavia and whats to come, as "TITO" said better to be in grave than a slave. All these countries are run by dirty politicians (Montenegro,Macedonia) look what it came to. They have to kneel and be servants to Albanians set up by America. I cant wait the day when Macedonians, and so called [...]

Read the full comment Montenegrin experience their own kosovo, who will they beg to save them; Serbia, Greece, Spain, Cyprus, Romania, Slovakia, Russia. Just as ex german chancelor said to recognise occupation of kosovo Schröder a grave mistake

Anonymous AlbanianRednBlack Mon, Oct 19 2009 13:03 CET

Greece loves Serbia and it will regreet it, soon,

Anonymous Deyan Mon, Oct 19 2009 13:02 CET

Serbs are stuborn beings, who can't accept change. They believe they are superior to all of mankind, and being Serbian is a blessing from god. They have their own church that preaches racism, nationalism and hatred. Look in the news against all the violence against other nationalities, the latest the death of the french soccer fan.

Soccer hooligans don't goto the game because they love football, rather they are paid sheep manipulated by the herd master, who sits in some high nationalistic, racist, xenophobic political party. Serbia will always be a problem in the world, I [...]

Read the full comment personally can't wait until Vojvodina becomes like Kosovo, a country of it's own so we can finally proudly say we are from Vojvodina (or whatever the name will be) and people won't look down upon us!

Anonymous Alexander Schults Mon, Oct 19 2009 12:54 CET

Dear Vangeli: First Serbs have never had friends in the Balkans cos everyone is a traitor, especially the closest to u, second if there was no Serb(Yugoslav) sacrifice u would in concentration camp by now with the mind u have, third Republic of Macedonia or FYROM never belonged to Greece. Its funny how u say all that crap, than why is Greek government so worried about Albanian immigration to the Greece and its numbers to the north.

Dear Agron Forlani: Kosovo is not gone cos is surrounded by the orthodox Christians on all sides, second vojvodina [...]

Read the full comment is a province of educated people and they know how to resolve issues peacefully, third sandjak is a region mostly settled by Serbs and bosniaks who oppose Sarajevo and its dirty politics and they saw what happened in bosnia, and last thing if thank to Jesus so much why dont u go to kosovo and live there and see what happens to u if u mention Jesus.


This is nothing new Macedonia is forced from all sides to got against its allies cos its fearing for its safety. Time will go on but Albanians will not have NATO to protect their drug trafficking channels through occupied territory.

Anonymous EXh Mon, Oct 19 2009 12:36 CET

Come on guys. Let's wait on the future of the Region. We should see the act of solving border problems as a positive, taking in consideration peaceful settlement. Neither Serbia, nor Kosovo or any country of the world have been created states without people. People are the ones that decide about their own future. And let it be so for Kosovo. People of Kosovo want to be independent. And so Kosovo is Independent.

Without Kosovo Independence, the Balkans is not in peace.

Anonymous Zlatan Mon, Oct 19 2009 12:36 CET

Serbia gets more and more isolated and keeps on kicking and screaming. The sooner they accept that the neighboring countries want peace and stability, and that an independent Kosovo is a part of this, the better.

Croatia, Macedonia and Montenegro have not recognized Kosovo to be "nice" but because they see that this is the only option for peace in the Balkans.

So move on, Vuk Jeremic, and concentrate on Serbia's real problems.

Anonymous Peggy Mon, Oct 19 2009 12:20 CET

Vangeli, are you sure you are Orthodox Greek?
There are many Albanians living in Greece too.
Well, I must say you don't speak for majority of Greeks. This I know, is not a thing you want to hear but it't true. Greeks and Serbs will always remain brothers and no Albanian like yourself is going to put a wedge between the two. Do you honestly belive that a Serb or a Greek would belive what you just said?

Serbia will not retaliate against FYROM for this but when their turn comes to [...]

Read the full comment having their country partitioned because Albanians will take a chunk of it in the near future, mark my word, Serbia will be justified in being the first one to recognise another Albanian country in that region.
Macedonia has just dug their own grave because neither Serbia nor Greece will give a damn.

Anonymous Vangeli Mon, Oct 19 2009 12:05 CET

Looks like Serbia has no friends left in the Balkans. Even the Bulgarian's in FYRO'M' have abandoned Serbia. I'm Greek, and all I can say is that Serbia got what it deserved. Serbia was a traitor to Greece when it recognised FYRO'M' as 'Republic of Macedonia'. Even when Greece stood by Serbia and didn't recognise Kosovo, something that FYRO'M' did, Serbia still betray Greece. I speak for all Greeks when I say GREECE IS NO FRIEND TO SLAVS. All Former Yugoslav countries should go back to Russia. My position might seem a bit odd as I'm 100% Greek, but Slavs [...]

Read the full comment have done nothing for the world.

Greece for the Greeks

Anonymous Agron Forlani Mon, Oct 19 2009 11:44 CET

Serbs should understand that KOSOVA its gone forever ...
watch now vojvodina sandjak ,KOSOVA has own future thanks jesus without serbia.


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