PRISTINA (Serbia and Montenegro), March 30 (SeeNews) - The World Bank said on Friday it would grant $19.0 million (15.8 million euro) through June 2007 to back the economic growth of the U.N.-administered Serbian province of Kosovo.
"The World Bank is working in Kosovo to help build the economy, improve the investment climate, promote good governance, and protect the environment," World Bank Director for South East Europe, Orsalia Kalantzopoulos, said in a statement.
The grants are included in a new interim World Bank strategy for the province. The main aims of the strategy are the generation of new sources of economic growth, ensuring associated environmental improvements and the creation of macroeconomic stability through sound fiscal policy and public financial management, the global lender said.
Under the strategy the World Bank plans to spend $8.5 million in Kosovo's mining sector, considered the key to the province's future economic growth and the main attraction for foreign investors.
A further $5.5 million will be spent for environment protection projects, mainly for cleaning up the land in the abundant lignite mine areas. The World Bank will also support Kosovo's fiscal policy by $5.0 million and will help the province improve its public expenditure management, the statement said.
Kosovo remains part of the loose union of Serbia and Montenegro that succeeded rump Yugoslavia in 2003. The province was put under U.N. administration in 1999 following the NATO bombings on Serbia that expelled Serb forces to end what Western powers said was repression of civilians in fighting the ethnic Albanian rebel insurgency.
Since the end of the conflict the World Bank has approved 22 grants totaling $95 million to support Kosovo's energy, mining, education sectors, community development and business environment.
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whew 19 million? why nobody else needs to work anymore after WORLD BANK gives 19 measly million. Bush spends that much on a one week vacation LOL
Serbia got $4.5 billion since 2000 to support its "democracy." No wonder it's still messing around with the world.
Here's an interestin letter from a wharped individual: Mary Mostert.
Ilirian,
I am neither Serb nor have I ever even had a personal friend who is Serbian in my entire 77 years, and have no other personal connection with ANY of the ethnic groups in the Balkans. I am an American. However, I got interested in what was happening in the former Yugoslavia during the Bosnian war because not one time in all their reporting did the CNN reporter EVER interview a Serb or present the Serb side of the issue. I later discovered that the key reporter there was a Muslim. As for Albanians, I noticed two things in the reports. All the figures being given out by NATO were, frankly, mathematically impossible and unverifiable and the Albanian KLA, which had been on the US State Department list as a terrorist organization until 1998 – about the time President Bill Clinton was impeached. He removed the KLA from the terrorist list and it was obvious that the news accounts were ALL, once again, from reports by the KLA. Also, and perhaps you can answer this, the Albanians are supposed to be the poorest group of people in Europe – had somehow had the money to purchase very expensive and large weapons. I began to track down where the money for those weapons came from. My research as early as 1996 indicated that the Albanians in Kosovo were the source of most of the heroin coming into Europe.
In all these years of getting letters, like yours, from Albanians who tell me that “originally Kosovo was Albanian Land” none of you have ever presented me with any proof. Yet, the Turkish census records going back to 1450 AM show almost NO Albanians in Kosovo and the hundreds of Serbian Orthodox Church buildings – churches and monasteries – clearly prove the Turkish census records to be accurate reflections of the population of Kosovo for well over 1000 years.
Where is your proof that both the Turkish census records and the physical proof of the church buildings is inaccurate?
Mary Mostert
MY REPLY:
Dear Mary,
I’m sorry but whatever you might say, I still believe that you are most likely either of serbian (orthodox slavic) heritage or married to a serb or other orthodox slavic person, etc, etc (some sort of link). If not, then I can only imagine that you are on the serb lobby’s payroll. You must be to come up with such, may I say, biased writings!
For your information, even though I believe you already know this, Albanians and Greeks are the oldest people (inhabitants) of the Balkans and this is a well known FACT, just ask any REPUTABLE and independent historian.
For your information also Mary, Albanians were and many still are devout Christians (both orthodox & catholic) to this day. Also, Muslim Albanians are 100% aware of their Christian roots and are proud of it and do not try to hide it or deny it. It is also a fact that Albanian Muslims are very, very different from other Muslims around the world, in fact they might call themselves Muslims but they live the same lifestyle as Christians of the Balkans and Europe do and follow the same moral ethics, etc. Albanians in general are a very moderate and peace loving people that unfortunately have just had the worst run of bad luck over the centuries, all of which was inflicted by foreign invading, expansionist neighbours (hordes), etc, etc. At no time ever in history have we (Albanians) ever attacked another people for territorial gains, etc, etc and this is a fact. Another fact is that serbs are in fact the newcomers to the Balkans, coming from the over the other side of the Carpathian mountains and they are the ones that have over the centuries crept in to others lands and taken over these lands using the most barbaric methods known to man.
Another thing, please do not try and tell me that all of the orthodox churches found throughout all of the Albanian lands were built by serbs because this again is a GREAT untruth. These churches, whether Orthodox or Catholic were in fact built by Albanians (Christian Albanians) and we and many a reputable historian knows this also.
I would also like to inform you that you should not be too concerned about Islam or fundamentalist Islam growing in the Balkans because it is a well known fact that Islam as a whole is on the decline in the Balkans, especially within the Albanian nation. The Albanian youth of today are more educated than ever and want return back to roots (Western Europe), where we belong.
Albanians in fact are the biggest victims (Balkan victims) of the Ottoman Empire. You see, the Turks allowed serbs and Greeks to educate themselves in their mother tongue but not Albanians. This is because serbs and Greeks had powerful allies throughout the years of their occupation, whereas we Albanians did not and the fact that even though the Turks did their utmost to assimilate Albanians, we ALBANIANS managed to maintain our European language, culture, etc, etc and this says a lot for us as a people. We are 100% indigenous to the Balkans. What I want to say is that we have lived here far, far longer than any other peoples, especially slavic peoples.
Did you know we Albanians have clans (just like the Scottish do) and we all know which clan we belong to? Within these clans there are Muslim and Christian families and they all know that even though they may be of different faiths, they are related (linked).
Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems to me that you are forgetting that Muslim people are also human and that unfortunately, as with Islam there are Christian extremist/fundamentalists also.
Another thing, have you ever seen a map of the world? I’m sure you have. Well, if you have you might notice how much of the world’s land mass is owned (not populated) by slavic peoples, especially orthodox slavic peoples. And this is alright of course, but at the same time I would like you to see (take note) of how much land is inhabited and still owned by Albanians. Now ask yourself, why should a people that have very, very little land in which they have lived longer than any other people in that region be forced to give up (lose) even more of it.
Oh yes, you now of course know that I’m Albanian but I’m going to let you wonder which confession I belong to. I could tell yo but I feel you don’t deserve to be told.
Now, I could go on and on of course madam but I’m not sure it would make any difference to you, so in conclusion, I have only one thing to say to you: Please know this, we Albanians are coming out of a form of hell which we have undergone over the last 700 to 1000 years (occupation of our lands by different nations and the attempted extermination & annihilation of our nation and our European language and culture) and people like you are unfortunately trying to stop this. Now, why you are trying to do this, I do not know, but there is one thing that I do know and that is that you should be ashamed of yourself madam. You are very, very evil person!
This will be my last form of contact with you.
Good Riddance.
Ilirian
Albanian Patriot and ardent supporter of the U.S. & the U.K. and all things western.
From: Mary Mostert [mailto:Mary@bannerofliberty.com]
Sent: Friday, 31 March 2006 5:01 PM
To: ilirianbytyci@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Ilirian from Kosova
Dude, why would you even engage in a conversation with this crazy bitch?!?! She is a radical conservative and a fundamentalist christian allright. I just glanced through her website and look what I found in one of her articles:
However, today there is more de facto segregation than there was in my childhood with segregation laws. While I knew, played with and picked cotton with children from strong, intact, caring black families in the South as I was growing up, my grandchildren get very tired of listening to black classmates complain about their situation while refusing to work, study, try to get along with others, or behave themselves. Today millions of black youth refuse to even GO to school and millions of black men are in prison. They see themselves as “victims” of “white oppression.”
They aren’t. They are victims of the oppression of black leaders that teach behavior and attitudes guaranteed to cause them to fail. To succeed they need to follow the example of the successful people among them –such as Booker T. Washington, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, Alan Keyes and Thomas Sowell to mention a few.
Ilirian
You contacting that crazy dyke is just dignyfing her. I mean her bio clearly states that she was in NY where she could not make anything of herself and then became right wing so she can appeal to trailer trash phobics.
Here is an example of one of her headlines-it just makes you laugh:
by Mary Mostert
87% Fewer Violent Deaths Annually in Iraq Now than under Saddam Hussein
Also
This is where her articles end up:
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=274200
It's totally racist that's why but it doesn't surprise me that Mir doesn't get it it explains a lot.
Notice she only mentioned right-wing blacks (and an embarrasment like Alan Keyes I know Colin Powelll is choking after being mentioned in the same breath as him) and no one like Martin Luther King, Ralph Bunche, Harriet Tubman, John Johnson or Zola Neale Hurston
Oh and if you really want to refute somone's comments like that then all you have to say is read Kosovo by Noel Malcolm. End of tale. In almost every classroom in the world discussing SEE politics and history his is the historical standard.
Then just flip to the back and go through the entire biliography. That'll shut them up for good because he used all sorts of sources, including Serbian to make his point (and mentions Djilas' racist comment about let's treat the Albanians like our own Palestinians). And Malcolm is English. So end of tale.
Great job Ilirian!
I thought your reply was very good.
She may not change her mind, but the least we can do is express our point of view.
Cheers
Tosi
Sweden
The U.S and the U.N is being racist towards Serbian people, There is footage and stories of how Serbs killed women and children.I myself,an orthodox serb will admit thats true. But no one has mentioned in the media how Albanians attacked the Serbs, and not only during the war, there were many riots in northern Kosovo where hundreds of Serbs have been killed.But the difference is the Serbs who commited war crimes have been arrested and held in the hague awaiting trial. How is it the UN will go after the President of Yugoslavia for war crimes, but Agim Ceku the commander in chief of the KLA who took part in operation storm, which was the LARGEST SINGLE ACT OF ETHNIC CLEANSING in the balkans to date,where 150 000 serbs where killed, is freed because of his status as prime minister.
this is part of the article from which i learned of this information.
"Ceku served in the Croatian army and was a key planner in Operation Storm, a military offensive in the Krajina region of Croatia in 1995 that resulted in the expulsion of some 150,000 Serbs, the largest single act of ethnic cleansing to date in the Balkans. The incident became so notorious that even The Hague tribunal indicted former Croatian general Ante Gotovina for his part in this war crime. But while the latter has been in custody awaiting trial, Ceku has enjoyed complete immunity.
Ceku was made head of the KLA as it was reconfigured by the US to act as proxy land army for the NATO aerial bombardment of Yugoslavia in 1999. After the conflict, he was appointed head of the newly-created Kosovo Protection Corp (KPC), effectively an embryonic national army, supported and supplied by the UN. Over the past seven years KPC officers have been involved in attacks on Serb civilians. Belgrade has an Interpol arrest warrant for war crimes carried out by Ceku. He was apprehended twice, in Hungary and Slovenia, but released after the intervention of EU and UN diplomats.
Ceku is the second former KLA commander to have assumed the position of prime minister since 1999. The first, Ramush Haradinaj, resigned in March 2005 in order to stand trial for war crimes in The Hague. He faces 37 counts of murder, rape, persecution, inhumane acts and unlawful detention in Kosovo during 1998. Nevertheless, he has been permitted into the province and to participate in politics while awaiting trial."
>>>Albanians in general are a very moderate and peace loving people... <<<
you started to believe in your own lies...
Damn... I dont even have one...
Really?! I could have sworn you have the same ones :)
Guys,
I see that this lady has received plenty of e-mails after publishing thet stupid article. I sent her couple of them also. But you know what, she is not worthy our attention. She is a looooooooser, thats all.
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