I'd like to send my Portuguese congratulations to the new state of Montenegro. I hope that its independence will bring prosperity and a rightful place in our growing European family. And I hope Kosovo will soon follow. :)
To be honest this wont change much because Montenegro was de facto independent before the vote.
Most important of all it had its own independent economic policy.
As far as Serbia being independent state now I couldnt really care less. It changes nothing. I havent got anything against Montenegrian pro independence people partying though, although Serbia now will have its own this / that (symbols, flag etc etc etc etc zzzzzz) and nobody in Belgrade is partying about that - particularly me, I care about real things, not ceremonial symbols.
Still, its better that the result was sort of conclusive. If it had been in the 'grey zone' (51 percent to 55 percent) things could have been bad. It could have been a fiasco with both sides claiming some kind of victory.
The official result is still unknown but it now looks like 55.4 to the independence block. The official result is at 22 this evening.
Dim Tuc so many 'pitys' in the last 20 years or so I wouldnt know where to start!
But, yes Serbia should have accepted the proposal by the Montenegrins a few years back.
And Serbia should have accepted (for that matter), or rather the Serbian Communist / Socialist leadership should have accepted (we, the people, were never offered a referendum) a confederation back in 1990 too - even if as they said at the time, this would only lead to demands for independence from Croatia, Slovenia etc at a later date.
Far better for no blood to be spilt and no ethnic cleansing to take place and have independent states, even if I believe that as Yugoslavia all those nation states can 'punch' harder together in the international system.
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Serb propaganda.
Congradulation Monenegro!Now you are free like a bird.
I'd like to send my Portuguese congratulations to the new state of Montenegro. I hope that its independence will bring prosperity and a rightful place in our growing European family. And I hope Kosovo will soon follow. :)
While we don't have the official results yet, pollsters are saying that the chances of the results dropping below 55% are vitually nill.
I forgot to congratulate Serbia on its independence ;)
To be honest this wont change much because Montenegro was de facto independent before the vote.
Most important of all it had its own independent economic policy.
As far as Serbia being independent state now I couldnt really care less. It changes nothing. I havent got anything against Montenegrian pro independence people partying though, although Serbia now will have its own this / that (symbols, flag etc etc etc etc zzzzzz) and nobody in Belgrade is partying about that - particularly me, I care about real things, not ceremonial symbols.
Still, its better that the result was sort of conclusive. If it had been in the 'grey zone' (51 percent to 55 percent) things could have been bad. It could have been a fiasco with both sides claiming some kind of victory.
The official result is still unknown but it now looks like 55.4 to the independence block.
The official result is at 22 this evening.
Actually the 'preliminary, official' result has now been put on hold for 12 hours.
I hope that this isnt going to turn into a fiasco.
Dim Tuc so many 'pitys' in the last 20 years or so I wouldnt know where to start!
But, yes Serbia should have accepted the proposal by the Montenegrins a few years back.
And Serbia should have accepted (for that matter), or rather the Serbian Communist / Socialist leadership should have accepted (we, the people, were never offered a referendum) a confederation back in 1990 too - even if as they said at the time, this would only lead to demands for independence from Croatia, Slovenia etc at a later date.
Far better for no blood to be spilt and no ethnic cleansing to take place and have independent states, even if I believe that as Yugoslavia all those nation states can 'punch' harder together in the international system.
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