At the end of her visit with the Kosovar government’s leadership, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded that Serbia “normalize” relations with its neighbor, and insisted that the US would never allow any new negotiations on the border between the two.
“The boundaries of an independent, sovereign Kosovo are clear and set,” Clinton added. Kosovo was declared independent after a US invasion of the then-Serbian region in 1999. It has been occupied by NATO forces ever since.
The question of borders is not simply sour grapes from the Serbian government but a very serious concern over the fact that the lines drawn after the war leave a number of ethnic Serbian villages on the Kosovo side of the border, and the ethnic-Albanian dominated Kosovo government has sought to prevent them from trading with Serbia, using NATO troops to try to seal the border.
Which leaves open the question: if the US supports self-determination for Kosovar Albanians, why not also for Kosovar Serbs who never wanted to secede from Serbia in the first place and now don’t want to be stuck as part of the new Kosovo. The US has not addressed the “why” of this double standard, but has repeatedly reiterated that they will not allow northern Kosovo to secede from the rest of Kosovo, whether it is to re-join Serbia or to become its own independent state-let.
US still helping the Balkan Mafia by dividing nations along the borders that US, England, Germans, France and Sweden drown before they started bombing Yugoslavia dividing nations. It was done for creating a path for Oil and Gas from Caspian sea to Europe, in one hand Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and in the other Sunny Muslims and its affiliated mafia like Hashim Taci and many others have interests in that. This is the same thing as she supporting and calling the Syrian armed gang of paid mercenaries by Saudis and Turkey protesting the central government a "revolution" calculating it wrong again. Look: without NATO and US warmongering politics toward independent nations there wouldn't be any and such "revolution", but if she calls it the orchestrated, manipulated and corrupt political system enforced by US and EU militarism regime forcing the Balkan people to accept the brutality of a militarism regime, hand in hand with the Neo Liberal Fascism in EU then is acceptable, then she tells the truth, until then……
"At the end of her visit with the Kosovar government’s leadership, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded that Serbia “normalize” relations with its neighbor, and insisted that the US would never allow any new negotiations on the border between the two."
Never is a long time sweaty……… You need to read Herodotus…. No border, leader, concept, theory, religion, philosophy, even the elements themselves are….. All are subject to change, transformation, even discontinuation… The ONLY constant is change……….. The only continuity is variance……… and has always been thus…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who the fuck is that farting bitch to demand anything? Why is colonial and imperialist US meddling in the region?
“The boundaries of an independent, sovereign Kosovo are clear and set,” Clinton added. Kosovo was declared independent after a US invasion of the then-Serbian region in 1999. It has been occupied by NATO forces ever since."
Might mention…. "declared independent " …………. by Whom,…..
It was declared independent by the Kosovo Provincial Assembly, however the UN later declared it had actually been made simply by the members of the Kosovo Provincial Assembly.
Thing is while the assembly itself was legal under international law since it had a UN mandate, the same mandate that established it and made it legal specified it had no role in determining the future status of the province. So after the declaration when Serbia complained and motioned the UN to declare itself on the legality of the proclamation, the body engaged in huge acrobatics to finally conclude that the declaration could not have been made by the assembly because it would have been illegal for it to do so, and that it had therefore been made simply by its members in their personal capacity and that therefore the UN could not rule on it one way or the other and could not deem it illegal.
Thank You Karl…….. I didn't know the story…… When an arcane declaration like "Kosovo was declared independent" The next words should be by the U.N. by the EU or somesuch…… It was telling that instead of citing the establishing "authority" she finishes the sentence with: "after a US invasion of the then-Serbian region in 1999. It has been occupied by NATO forces ever since." Is it NATO that "OWNS" it now… and the Kosovars are merely props….????? Or do the KOSOVARS own it and NATO are merely cops..???
I suppose it is Madam, Secretary's way of saying…. "And our might, [current emplacement] there now enforces such right…. Her use of the "N" word implies that the U.S. and NATO will "never" not be there to enforce the annexation of that Serbian territory…… So resolute, so unlikely….. Such BULL$HIT…!!! This fat woman is an unmitigated disaster. Check the NEW Imran Khan flap…!! She should have been a bar maid in a Bombay brothel….. not Secretary of State in a collapsing empire……… The woman is totally devoid of charm and charisma…. Her diplomacy is plodding and mordant…. "Do what we tellya or we'll bomb yaa back to the stone age"
I object Mrs Clinton's "US Will Never 'Allow' Kosovo Border Change" ….
The Kosovo border was changed after NATO took it away from Serbia
Funny how the Feds don't view any independence movement, unless it's sanctioned by themselves, and so by that standard the American Revolution itself wouldn't have been "allowed". So on whose side would Hillary have been on in that case? Hmmmm?
We have to stick with the "butcher of the Balkans" (Richard Holbrooke) and maintain our new "base" (the biggest since Vietnam) in our puppet state of Kosovo (complete with a puppet president guilty of illegal organ trafficking) – necessary for our military imperialism and the drugs and women trafficking that goes with the base.
Richard Holbrooke, the Butcher of the Balkans http://www.zcommunications.org/richard-holbrooke-…
Don't Mourn, Balkanize! http://www.zcommunications.org/dont-mourn-balkani…
Yeah, and probably she'll expect huge campaign contributions for her 2016 Presidential run from the mafia drug cartel running out of Kosovo.
kosovo is albanian land , end of , the sooner serbs get used to it the better for them
As declared by Julian…… But there is a counter view……… which is: kosovo is Serbian land , end of story….. Always was..!! and the sooner Albanians get used to it the better for them…… After all who would win that fight between those two…??? When the dollar collapses and the US.GOEZ the WAY of the USSR….. and Albania is on it's own against Serbia….. Then we will see just WHOSE LAND it is…..
The border with Albania, however, is highly negotiable.
But we can understand her position: aren't the Serbs the ones who placed her under the imaginary "machine gun fire" that earned her a CIB?
she is going to quit and become a full time border guard – good job for her
Kosovo has no real legitimacy as a nation. It was a pure creation of the now defuct Yugoslavia. Secertary Clinton's remarks are absurd. If popular self expression is the basis of nationhood, then Serbian populated areas of Kosovo should be adjoined with Serbia and not the Kosovo gangster state.
The US should be worrying about its own borders which, it is obvious, it can't control and forget about others.