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THE WORLD'S VIEWS ON SERBIA AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY KOSOVO

Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Ireland, Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, Switzerland, USA, Iran, Russia, China

Hungary: Hungarian private conservative newspaper Magyar Nemzet, on 25 February
Desperate fury is raging on the streets of Belgrade. The building of the US Embassy is in flames; a McDonald's restaurant in the inner city is destroyed and so are several western businesses. Neither is Vojvodina safe as passions run high; new anti-Hungarian graffiti have appeared, stirring up fears. Aghast, international organizations are protesting; the EU is threatening to suspend all talks until order is restored. The majority...

NEITHER EU NOR KOSOVO

01/20/2008, HCHRS

The ending of Kosovo negotiations under the auspices of the "Troika", and the decision of the international community not to further postpone the resolution of the status of Kosovo after their failiure is not only unaccepted by the political elite in Serbia, but is used as an excuse for blocking the accelerated accession to the European Union. Namely, in mid-December, when the attempt between Belgrade and Pristina to reach an agreeable solution was formally ended, Brussels has signalled Belgrade that, as early as January 2008, the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) could be signed, regardless of the fact that Serbia has practically suspended cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. This European...

CHARTING KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE

By Jela De Franceschi

9 January 2008

Washington - Kosovo, the restive southern province of Serbia, which has been under international control for about a decade, intends to declare independence in the coming months. But any move toward full independence by Kosovo, which is dominated by a large ethnic-Albanian majority, will face strong opposition from Serbia and its historic ally Russia, which can block Kosovo's admittance to the United Nations. Since the unraveling of Yugoslavia that began with a series of bloody conflicts in the early 1990s, the international community has maintained multiple peacekeeping missions and poured millions of dollars of economic aid into stabilizing the...

Rejecting false parallels:
WHY KOSOVO IS NOT SOUTH OSSETIA
(or Abkhazia or Transnistria or northern Cyprus)

Marko Attila Hoare

29 November 2007

We are all familiar with a certain dishonest rhetorical tactic: the use of an argument that is objectively ridiculous and that the person making it knows is ridiculous, but that nevertheless can sound impressive to the ears of someone who does not pause to think twice about it. A good example is the claim that we should not recognise Kosovo's independence lest it set off a chain reaction across the world, with secessionist territories rushing to follow Kosovo's example by declaring independence. Former Serbian foreign minister Vuk Draskovic suggested...

HELSINKI COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN SERBIA ORGANIZES THE CONFERENCE

"Kosovo Status and Standards: Towards Assuring Regional Security and Stability"

06/16/2006 , HCHRS

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights organized the conference under the title "Kosovo Status and Standards: Towards Assuring Regional Security and Stability" on June 5-6, 2006 in the Belgrade Intercontinental Hotel. It were the King Baudouin Foundation and the Fund for an Open Society, Belgrade, that supported this major gathering under the project "Belgrade-Prishtina: Steps to Build Confidence and Understanding - A Follow-up Conference." This fifth in the series of dialogues that have been assembling intellectuals, NGO activists and politicians from Serbia and Kosovo...

DECLARATION

The conference "Kosovo: Status and Standards Towards Assuring Regional Security and Stability"

Belgrade, June 6 2006

06/07/2006 , HCHRS

The conference "Kosovo: Status and Standards Towards Assuring Regional Security and Stability" organized by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia and the "Gani Bobi" Institute for Humanitarian Studies on June 6, 2006 in Belgrade addressed the issues crucial for securing quality coexistence of Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo, and the modus vivendi guaranteeing the stability of both Kosovo and the entire region. Bearing in mind that the resolution of the final status of Kosovo is in the hands of the international community, participants in the conference agree that what Kosovo needs are adequate...