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Will Kosovo Declare Independence Tomorrow?
By Charlie
December 10th is the end of the road for negotiations:
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU leaders are expected to agree this week that efforts to reach a negotiated solution to the Kosovo problem are exhausted, and offer to take responsibility for security and justice in the breakaway Serbian province.But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday "artificial deadlines" for finding a solution to Kosovo's status were not binding and could raise risks to stability.
EU negotiator Wolfgang Ischinger will brief European Union foreign ministers on Monday on the results of four months of mediation efforts and urge them to help stabilize the Balkan territory by sending in police and justice officials soon.
"It is clear that the future of Serbia and Kosovo lies in the European Union. That's something that both sides agree on," EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said in an interview with Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
"We were given 120 days but if we had been given 1,200 days the outcome would have been the same," an aide quoted Ischinger as telling Solana.
Don't forget, we still have a brigade of troops there. If folks in Afghanistan are complaining that they are being ignored because of Iraq, what do the guys in KFOR think? If Kosovo declares independence unilaterally, there may be violence, rioting, and partition of the area north of the Ibar river.
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Oh great, just what the world needs-yet another chunk of real estate becoming a nation that has no buisness being one.
At least Kosovo comes with beer and eanuts or does the Army have GEN order #1 there too?
Forgive me, but I am not familiar with the intricacies of Serbia. Why would there be violence if there is independance? Too many Serbians living in what would be Kosovo?
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