RADE (AP)--Serbian President Boris Tadic said in an interview published Friday that he will never accept independence for Kosovo.
"As far as I am concerned, I will never sign any decision granting independence to Kosovo," Tadic told Glas daily.
Kosovo is formally part of Serbia, although the province has been an international protectorate since 1999, when a NATO bombing campaign halted Belgrade's crackdown against ethnic Albanian rebels.
Talks to determine Kosovo's future status are expected to start later this year under mediation by the United Nations. Kosovo's ethnic Albanians are seeking independence, but Belgrade officials want to keep the region within Serbia's borders.
Resolving the issue is considered crucial for stability in the Balkans, a region still recovering from the wars of the 1990s.
Tadic said the solution for Kosovo should be the result of a compromise. He added that the Belgrade delegation at the negotiations will seek to defend " Serbia's national interests."
"We will use all political and diplomatic means to defend them," Tadic was quoted as saying.
Thursday, the Serb negotiating team agreed on its platform for the talks, but revealed no details publicly.
Also Thursday, the leader of Serbia's Orthodox Church, Patriarch Pavle, called for a solution that would be acceptable to both sides.
The Serbs view Kosovo - the medieval seat of the Serbian state - as the cradle of their history, culture and statehood. Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, who make up a majority of the province's population, insist the region should become independent from Serbia.
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no shit, what president or nation would ever accept just giving away a part of theri internationally recognised territory?? name 1 example?
such nonsense, when was india ever called England? have the english had a 1600 year majority (as the serbsi did in kosovo) before they were driven out? are theri 2,000 english churches in india?? nonsense. such a contradiction by the "indigenous" albanians who are getting all their halp from the USA a nation who conducted teh greatest ethinc cleansing and genocide ever seen on a REAL indigenous population, not one that invents their own history ovr night. again, show me 1 albo source from prior to teh 19th cen. that claims u are illirain? nonsense.
All this talk about who was ther first, national and ethnic heritage and history blah, blah, blah. The reason that Kosovo should have it's independence comes down to one thing - self-determination. If Quebec with a 51% majority can have it's own country, then certainly Kosovo with a 90% majority can have it's own country.
What do the Serbians gain by keeping it part of Serbia, more trouble or another chance to oppress the Albanians like they've done for the last hundred years.
Give it up Serbia - your treatment of minorities (ethnic Germans, Hungarians, Slovenes, Croatians, Bosnians and lots of others) over the last century has been atrocious. Comes from the same root word as atrocity - get it.
Serbs will never become the rulers of Kosova. This so called nation has no culture, no identity and doesn't belong to contemporary civilization. They simply belong to the past and they consider only: hatred, ignorance etc. Serbs are the only who offer shelter for criminals but this is not surprising since a large number of Serbs do have criminal behaviour. Simply they should be expelled from civilized world
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, Jan 4 (Reuters) - A policeman in Kosovo shot and killed a man during his interrogation in an Albanian-style "blood feud" to avenge the murder of his brother.
Police said the officer shot the 38-year-old suspect late on Tuesday as he was being questioned about illegal firearms at the Pec police station in the west of the United Nations-run province. The officer was subsequently arrested.
Local reports alleged the detainee's brother had stabbed to death the police officer's brother at a nightclub six months ago.
The Pristina daily Express quoted the detainee's lawyer as saying he had warned officers in charge that the two families were "locked in a blood feud." Albania has long had a tradition of blood feuds, often stretching over generations.
Such feuds still surface in Albania and in Serbia's disputed province of Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians make up 90 percent of the population.
They are based on the centuries-old Lek Dugagjini Code which states that Albanian families can avenge the killing of a relative by taking the life of either the killer or a member of their family.
how did it happen that Serbs built their churches and than left them? Thereafter trying to handle no more the churches but the administration and politics as a ruling minority? Is it about the churches or the ruling of the place? Why they left their "craddle"? When they came in and when they came out? Is it they want to have an "effortless superiority" based on violence which for the democratic balance of forces is no more possible?
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