PRISTINA (AP)--Kosovo's newly elected president said Friday that the ethnic Albanian demand for independence from Serbia remains non-negotiable.
Fatmir Sejdiu was elected by Parliament to fill the post left by the death of pro-independence leader Ibrahim Rugova last month and paves the way for the start of U.N.-mediated talks on Kosovo's future status.
Sejdiu, 54, said assuming the post at this delicate time is a "heavy burden and responsibility," as Kosovo leaders prepare to negotiate with Serbia's officials over the future of the disputed region later this month.
Sejdiu, the province's second president since the 1999 war, holds positions on Kosovo's status that are nearly identical with those of his predecessor, who dominated the province's politics for 16 years and epitomized ethnic Albanians' quest for Kosovo's independence from Serbia. Rugova died of lung cancer on Jan. 21.
Kosovo has been run by the U.N. since NATO launched a bombing campaign to end a Serb crackdown on independence-minded ethnic Albanian rebels in 1999.
The presidential post is largely ceremonial, but it has gained importance because the president heads the team that will negotiate in U.N.-mediated talks with Serb officials.
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I hope that all the albanians out there are aware that if Kosovo gets independance that kostunica and tadic will announce the occupation of Kosovo
by the way its spelled Kosovo not Kosova
i hope that all the albanians know that if kosovo is pronounced independent that kostunica and tadic will proclain the occupation of Kosovo
have fun!!!!!
Bring it on!
It's pronounce KOSOVA. Let him declare anything. Greece didn't want Macedonia as just Macedonia, so what as soon as America said YES everyone followed. Kostunica can cry all he wants, he has no control of Kosova and never will. BTW - Kiss Montenegro GoodBYE!!
PS
Don't forgett Greece is in the UN, it all comes down to who has the dic* and is DICKtating.
The lies the serbian church is spreading in USA.
Kosovo bishop warns of terror
Says sovereignty there would spur extremism
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Patrick O'Donnell
Plain Dealer Reporter
Parma
-- Giving the Kosovo region independence would encourage terrorism and jihadists inside Europe that rival al-Qaida, the bishop of Kosovo warned Saturday.
Artemije Radosavljevic, who heads the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo, spoke to more than 100 members of St. Sava Cathedral in Parma on Saturday afternoon.
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Though his visit featured typical gestures of goodwill and bonding -- traditional dances by the church's youth and a banquet of Serbian food like kielbasa and cabbage -- Bishop Artemije gave the crowd the same pleas that he is making in Pittsburgh and Chicago on his nearly two-week trip across the United States.
"It is my wish to sound the alarm," he said. "Working for the independence of Kosovo is to prepare, consciously or unconsciously, the ground for a militant jihad and terrorism in the heart of Europe, which will put at risk all democratic values of Europe and of America itself."
Representatives of Serbia and its Albanian-dominated province of the former Yugoslavia are scheduled to begin discussing the region's future Feb. 20 in Vienna, with Albanian Muslims demanding independence.
The United Nations took control of Kosovo in 1999 after a NATO bomb campaign to stop former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on Albanian separatists.
Bishop Artemije, who opposed Milosevic and Serb violence against Albanians before the bombings, has since repeatedly complained that the Albanian "jihadists" have returned the violence -- all while the United Nations is supposed to maintain order.
The United Nations, he said Saturday, has ignored a series of "terrorist" acts by Albanians during the last several years. He said the organization has allowed murders of Serbian Christians by Albanians to go unsolved and vandalism and destruction of churches to go unpunished.
"What is even more frightening . . . is the fact that the international community, instead of taking steps to stem this terrorism, now rewards it," he said.
Granting independence to Kosovo, he said, would only show other extremists that violence works. Instead, he said, the international community should push the sides to reach a compromise under which they can coexist in the province.
"Think about it before it is too late," he urged.
To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:
paodonnell@plaind.com, 216-999-4818
Talk about a religion of hate. The serbian church has more in common with Al-qaeda than albanians ever could.
Ivan,
Your true colours are showing. You have been trying to portray yourself as an open minded person in the past (read a few of your posts) but you are nothing but a twisted mind. If someone whishes to understand the serbian people better i recomend the perfect subject, Ivan, which more or less is the perfect representation of his people (0.5% margin of error).
Kosova is lost go and invent yourself another myth... and please for the sake of god let us be in peace with each other. Think of the future generations.
Regards,
F
ivan (and dave)
the serbian term for Albanians is Albanac or Albanci (pl). We call ourselves Shqipetar, and not Siptari. Like the Germans call themselves Deutchen. The term Siptari was invented by the serbian government in order to imply that albanians in kosovo (Siptari) are not the same as albanians in Albania (Albanci). And it is insulting. So if a serb uses that word to refer to Albanians, instead of the word Albanci, you can tell about his level of education and civility.
cheers
ILLYRIANBOY
".but one thing is for sure peace is not guranteed."
I hope it isn't! Furthermore peace has been shat on by the frecnh division of Mitrovica. I totally agree with you war is inevitable. One thing is for sure in such an outcome. You will lose!
Ivanhoe the Chetnik is losing it.
I have studied Game theory and I don't see how the prisoners dilemma applies to Kosova. We don't consider ourselves in the prisoner's situation. We know what we want and we know what the Contact Group wants. In fact, we are hellbent in getting what we want. Are you?
For your information, we write our language phonetically as well and it looks quite different from your "Siptari." It must be some perverse brain disease that clouds your mind. Just guessing.
I really envy some of you guys for having so much nerves to even try to discuss with the primitive people like ivan,cvijan dejan whatever...
they give stupid arguments about all the idiotic things that their politicans ( supported 100% from the primitive serbs)have done during the last 15 years.
Still I think that there are good people in serbia who really think differently from the way you idiots think...if you think at all...you don´t believe in the "arguments" that you bring here because you contradict yourselves in every second posting you send... you still have hopes that you can divide Kosova...and the whole world knows that you have lost any moral or legal right over Kosova...the only thing that you can still do is insulting from the distance...your good at that, i guess it´s in your blood and it´s a distinctive that you are primitive...
It´s sad having primitive neighbours...they can have a bad influence...
Përshëndes të gjithë shqiptarët që postojnë këtu...jeni të shkëlqyer edhe lexoj me vëmendje postimet e juaja...Iliri
To all the serbs that think and act as Ivan or his friends:
Pleas suck my big albanian cock.
See you in the after life.
On a second thought, I don't want to see your ugly big flat headed, big eared faces no more.
not to propagate this any further but ivan you dumb hoe, it looks like you and your dumb shkavell friends are going to have to move back to Serbia again (you know your home before 1987). That's really too bad because I was so getting use to the sexual favors from those shkavelli girls. I guess all good things must come to an end.
Kust to let some of the people know that it os not spelled KOSOVO it is spelled KOSOVA. Kosovo is what the serbians called it but pretty soon there will be no serbians in kosova!!!!!!!!
If there's some relevance to this topic I always fantasized about doing certain things for Albanian Muslims & non-Muslims who are decent enough and easy to relate to instead of Muslims & non-Muslims of any part of the world who have unsatisfactory characteristics.Also, for sure I condemn Serbs who support Serb war-criminals but a few examples of non-Serbs who I condemn for supporting these war criminals are the Chinese & Russians since China & Russia are reputedly Serbia's pals but I also condemn Americans,Britons,Canadians,whoever's Muslim even Austrians & Germans who may support Serbian war criminals,so therefore whether you're a Serb or non-Serb or a Christian or non-Christian as long as you support Serb war criminals than you're insane!
After all said & done so to speak people better believe it that I'm not to extend sympathy for Serbs who got penalized for war crimes and also I don't want to sympathize with people that are sympathetic or supportive of Serb war criminals.
For those who complain about Albanians the Albanians who I truly complain about are the ones who are "sell outs" whether they sell out people who're the same nationality as them including in particular Albanian Muslims selling out fellow Muslims especially innocent Muslims.Albanians who are also ungrateful to people who champion for their rights and people who are "exceptionally" nice to them have a way of getting "under my skin". Therefore I don't want to associate with Albanians who are truly dissapointing and also I refuse to be "extra-nice" to them.
Final thoughts ( at least till further notice)are that the bottom line is that I'd rather be "exceptionally" nice to Albanians who're more to my liking instead of Albanians who are less to my liking.In fact as long as I respect certain Albanians by being compassionate & generous to them,in return,they should respect me by showing gratitude.
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