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Sarajevo is not your city, Mr Karadzic, but mine

02 March 2010 | By Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Radovan Karadzic Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.


Feith: ICJ Opinion May Ease Tensions
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Pieter Feith, the head of the International Civilian Office in Kosovo, said that the opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence could help alleviate tense relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

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12 March 2010 |

The State Prosecution asks the Court to extend custody of three former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are charged with crimes committed in Trusina village, Konjic municipality, in April 1993.



Tadic to Address UNSC on Kosovo

Belgrade | 20 January 2010 | Bojana Barlovac
 
Boris Tadic (archive)
Boris Tadic (archive)
Serbian President Boris Tadic is scheduled to address a UN Security Council session devoted to Kosovo, which kicks off on January 22 in New York, Belgrade daily newspaper Politika reports.

Tadic's trip comes as the country awaits a decision from the International Court of Justice, ICJ, on the legality of Kosovo's February 2008 unilateral declaration of independence.

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic will also attend the debate.

"We believe that the situation in Kosovo is very serious and complex and that is one of the reasons why we have made the decision to present it at the highest state level - at the UNSC session," Jeremic announced.

He expressed his hope that this year, the two sides would be able to reach a point at which they could move forward in the process of determining Kosovo's future status.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon earlier called on Belgrade and Pristina to put aside the status debate and instead focus on improving regional coooperation. According to RTS, the UN secretary general has requested that the two sides work together to figure out how Kosovo could participate in regional and international forums necessary for the region's long-term development and stability.

The last time Tadic was in the U.S., he said Belgrade will call for fresh talks with Pristina on Kosovo's status once his government receives an advisory opinion from the ICJ, expected in a few months. 

He also said there could not be any compromise on Kosovo's final status: "As for myself, a compromise doesn’t exist when one side takes all while the other loses everything.”

In the first case of secession brought before the ICJ, the Hague-based court conducted nine days of hearings beginning on 1 December 2009, opening the floor for 29 country delegations to present their opinions on whether Kosovo's independence declaration was in violation of UN Resolution 1244. Twelve countries reportedly supported Serbia's stance on the issue. The court's decision will be non-binding. At most, the process is expected to slow other countries' recognition of Kosovo's independence.



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Tadic's UNSC visit
2010-01-21 23:58:27
I am very glad that Serbia's President Tadic shall come to New York,USA and address a UN security council session on Kosovo. The people of the USA have a lot to listen to about the injustices happening to the Serbs and other non ethnic ALbanians in Kosovo. Mr. Tadic should tell about persecution of Christians and Jews in Kosovo by the ethnic Albanian Muslims. Mr. Tadic can tell the USA how some of the destroyed medieval Christian churches and monasteries have mosques built over them to prevent such churches and monasteries from ever returning to Kosovo. And how these mosques preach radical Islam and hostility toward Christianity, Judaism, and any other non Islamic religion. I was born and raised an American, lived in the USA all my life,(over 50 years), and I strongly support the message Mr.Tadic shall bring to my fellow Americans. I wish Mr. Tadic all the very best and God bless him and Serbia. And, as we all know, Kosovo is part of Serbia, though unofficially.

running dry
2010-01-22 17:24:18
Why this man and his followers are still pulling this crap is pathetic. Kosova, Dardania. is not your Jerusalem, which I heard Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic say. its not even your Palestine!for it to be any of those things you would have had to be the original inhabitants of the land. So in fact it would be the Albanians Jerusalem & Palestine! both based in religion and land. the Serbs are the outsiders not the Albanians. So stop trying to milk kosova, Dardania for all its worth cause you've bleed it and left it to bleed you've created your false identity with it you've persuaded the world to turn its back why you murdered and oppressed the the original inhabitants and you still show no remorse for these acts towards these people but instead kick them and beat there future with your politics. This is why the world will never see it your way or even trust your intentions.

A response to Stephen JP
2010-01-23 18:06:08
While I think I understand the source of your anger and position, I wonder how do you know what the mosques in Kosovo preach? How do you know all this stuff while you said yourself you have lived in America all your life? And, I guess not only you have never lived in Kosovo but probably you have never even visited... I reckon you probably would have a hard time even locating it on map given that is a tiny country? May God bless Serbia and Tadic, why not, but may also God give wisdom and enlighten those who are blinded by nationalism and those who actively seek to be blinded. I have lived most of my life in Kosovo, having left there after the war, but I have never, and I promise you this is the truth, when it comes to Albanian hatred of the Serbs in Kosovo, the source of the conflict has never been religion but a struggle to survive under continuous repression. If anyone had ever tied religion with nationalism, it is the Serbs who have done it and not Albanians. In Bosnia that might have been true, but Albanians are not Slavs, they do not need religion for identity, language and culture suffices to set them a part. Albanians have three major religions coexisting, always nationhood defining an Albanian. Whereas, as we all know, Slavs, due to the splits in religion, based on those splits have formed nationhood. So, what I guess I'm saying to you is this: I'm not trying to justify this or that, and I'm sure there are viable arguments to make even on the Serb side, but it does not hurt to seek more knowledge. You are American, go to Kosovo, they will love you there. Do not reveal who you sympathize with, but do go and see for yourself. Attend a mosque and see what is being preached and who is attending. See what the youth of Kosovo thinks and believes. And if you cannot afford or don't want to take such a trip, there is literature out there you can read. Nothing wrong has ever come from enlightenment. It will make you a better Serb if you know what you are talking about. Now, cheers and may God bless you too!

kosovo is indipendent country
2010-01-24 03:54:21
Stephen, Kosovo was occupied by slavo serbs and and a lot of ethnic albanians were cleansed. the area was much larger. that is now in the past. you can say that Albanians are becoming an islamic nation but nobody will beilieve you. it is people like you who hate Albanians that will say anything to make us look like a taleban state. the truth is far from that. nobody is listening you. maybe the russians and the greeks. you can have them...

Serbia regional Leader
2010-01-25 13:46:01
Justice is not that of Nato !!!! Serbia is the only State that can assure stability in the region as nor Croatia nor any other Country has the power to assume this task. And ,of course , the indepence gave to kosovo is the worst thing that the Eu could accept!!! Usa out from Europe!

To Stefano
2010-01-25 19:51:34
Since when is Serbia the only state that can assure stability? Based on what? Fighting four needless wars? Croatia is doing so much better than Serbia, it will be in EU much faster than Serbia. Serbia is the only country in the area that causes instability. Go to any Balkan countries and say proudly youre Serbians, do it, and tell me the respect they'll give you.

Stability/Instability
2010-01-25 20:32:48
It is amazing how Serbs refer to themselves as the only country in the region who provide stability. Without getting too much into military detail, I will only say that this is laughable. Now, why are people (or mostly Serbs) convinced that there is instability in the region. Actually the region after the Kosova war is indeed stable. Just because Serbia doesn't recognize Kosova doesn't make a difference. In that context perhaps the Serbs are correct when they say that only them can bring stability. Yes, in that context only you dear Serbs can do so, simply because it is YOU who inflict instability in your neighbours. As far as Tadic's cry at the UN, is nothing new. UN is used to it by now, especially since Jeremic went crying to ICJ. Once that opinion comes out, then what? Serbia move on!

stephen
2010-01-26 13:28:15
the only nation to protect 100% judaisem durig the balkan wars are ALBANIANS. So dear Stepen whay dont you reed a bit more and than you will find out the truth about Balkans. God bless America

Kosovo is Serbia
2010-01-26 19:26:12
I think that no one can break the territorial integrity of Serbia because of the resolution n. 1244. More, I think that K/Albanians are war criminals as the serbs and worse of them. I say that because they waited KFOR`s protection to try to kill every Serbian Kosovar... This act is the act of a COWARD!!! Then I saw many destroyed churches in kosovo and do you all really think that destroying churches is the act of someone who respect each other religion??? I DO NOT!!! Now you can ask how I can tell all those things, and I will answer: I have been in Kosovo as a KFOR troop and believe me: kosovo is a land of criminals.

To Shefi
2010-01-27 00:14:56
"the only nation to protect 100% judaisem durig the balkan wars are ALBANIANS. So dear Stepen whay dont you reed a bit more and than you will find out the truth about Balkans. God bless America" shefi ============================= Can you please provide sources for this claim? I would very much like to read all about Albanians being the only protectors of the Jews. BTW, Was it your Skandenberg SS division who protected all those Jews?

To Peggy
2010-01-28 02:03:15
You should be able to find the truth about Albanians and their protection of the Jews on Israel government's official document. After you read them come back and we can talk. Before that, as Ben Bernenke of the U.S. said, "talking to you would be like talking to a kitchen table."

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