Thursday, May 26, 2005

Demarcation to be completed before Kosovo status talks - Macedonian premier

of report in English by Macedonian state news agency MIA

Skopje, 26 May: Demarcation of the border between Macedonia and Serbia-Montenegro in Kosovo part will be closed before opening province's final status talks, Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski said answering the question of deputy Ilija Srbinovski regarding border demarcation issue at Thursday's [26 May] parliament's session.

"This issue will be closed before the decision on final Kosovo's status, because it is also of interest of Kosovo's provisional government, having in mind that they will be asked not to cause instabilities or problems in the region in solving of province's status", he said.

Buckovski said that in consultations with experts, he was told that UNMIK [UN Interim Administration in Kosovo] had a mandate to participate in demarcation of border between Macedonia and Serbia-Montenegro in Kosovo part.

Buckovski also added that if Belgrade and Pristina would find mutually acceptable solution on province's status, it could not cause Macedonia's destabilization.

Source: MIA news agency, Skopje, in English 1222 gmt 26 May 05

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

This seems like blackmail to me........the Maco Premier knows that this will create problems, problems which the Kosova Government would like to avoid...

Anonymous said...

Yes, and the new line should have Kosova having everything west of the Vardar River....

Anonymous said...

Macedonians are opening a pandoras box, wait till Tetova starts getting ideas, and Gostivar, and Skopje, it majority Albanian there, so do the math.

If Macedonians are smart, they will leave to rest this issue and accept a border that exists, with no Albanian villages ending up inside Macedonia.

Anonymous said...

FYROM-ers a bunch of land thieves.

Anonymous said...

Fyromians know nothing else other than stealing other people's history, symbols, language, land... everything they can.

Leave the border as it is (the pre-1991 border) or else... you might live to regret your decisions.

Anonymous said...

macedonia is flirting with war despite knowing very well that albanians could be its very best allies. if you don't believe, think greece, serbia, and bulgaria.

Anonymous said...

The earlier post was very very correct. Albanians can easily be on terms close to an alliance with Macedonia, but they should respect us more. Yes we are the weakest in the region, but Macedonia is second, and Greece is dropping a long shadow over Macedonia, so is Serbia.

Macedonia, stop thinking the way Serbs do.

Anonymous said...

Albanians are threatening Macedonia now. They already control half of the country and have more rights than they would ever give Kosovo Serbs or Roma.

Albanians have not won any wars without the help of the SS or Nato.

They should abandon their dreams of an ethnically pure Greater Albania as the world is discovering what they are really like.

Anonymous said...

How are Albanians "threatening Macedonia"? Or "control half the country"? Albanians simply live there just as they have for a thousand years. It is the Albanians who have had to live with no political power and as second class citizens. Only a Slav nationalist would see giving a non-Slav equal rights as "threatening" or that allowing Albanians to finally elect the local officials where they live as "control" of the country. Live and let live and everything will be OK.

Anonymous said...

Here is great reason to stop talking about Macedonia, regardless of what these people say, they do not have ketchup at McDonald's!!!!! How retarted is that, who in this world eats McDonald's fries without ketchup?! You have to be so ignorant to do something like that.
Oh by way Albanians were about to take over Shkup when NATO saved your ass, so don't mention the word war again because it is insulting. Alright, so now go grow some tomatoes, grind them up and make some ketchup, then come talk to us but for the love of the Lord not about borders because that just makes us want to come down there and take everything you have and smack you upside the head for being silly! You silly Tigers you. . .

Anonymous said...

lol

Ask any Albanian if they want a Greater Albania and they will tell you that its crap, its projection by Serbs. A united Albania how it should have been 100 years ago will never happen, not because it's impossible but because Albanians don't want this themselves.

As for Greater, it can be only attached to Greater Serbia since they invented the concept. The concept of Greater implies taking other peoples land which Serbs have proven during these last 15 years. Who else tried to occupy Croatia and Bosnia and Kosova? Serbs. Now about the Albanians, when was the last time we crossed our borders into areas that are not inhabited and rightfuly Albanian to claim other peoples land? Never!

Anonymous said...

To the poster two above--I cannot stand ketchup, so personally I believe Macedonia is a culinarily advanced country. :-)