Post by bescheid on Feb 7, 2008 9:35:28 GMT -7
Some would at first thought in North America say of this: So what has this to do with us? And very rightly so: The question is the answer. There are lines being drawn in this area, and it is in Kosovo.
America is backing the freedom of Kosovo {Albanians} as for their Independence from Serbia. In as much as Germany and indirectly that of the EU.
To add to the mix, currently, some very progressed plans of pipe line exports to European markets of energy supples out of the middle east {Iran/Iraq} are to be built through Turkey as the conduit of progress. Then to add to the puzzle, there is Kosovo question in regards to the Serbs.
To add to this mix of nonsense, The Russian Federation has at present, a very high investment into Serbia in the energy sector with export/import out of the Caspian area.
Two world superpowers, Russian Federation and The United States caught up in, for the present, non-confrontational dispute.
To add to this: The United States is/has been involved in a {going into 6 year} war in Iraq and Afghanistan drain of resources}. What this means in actual terms is this: America is committed in resources and man power in the currant situation of war. This in-turn means this: If conflict is not resolved in the Balkans, it will become a European problem.
In-as- of the above, this will mean to be drawn in resources from Poland as being in-between that of Russian interest and of Serbia. For that land will be the line of construction of energy supplies to Western Europe.
And as so, the sun comes up, and the sun goes down, but to whom will the sun shine best upon?
SPIEGEL ONLINE - February 7, 2008, 01:27 PM
URL: www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,533714,00.html
---DEADLOCK IN SERBIA---
Power Struggle in Belgrade Puts EU Plans on Ice
Serbia was supposed to sign a pre-membership deal with the EU on Thursday. Instead, its prime minister and president are locked in a bitter power struggle over whether Belgrade should accept closer ties with Brussels in the light of the proposed EU mission to Kosovo.
There is little love lost between the ruling coalition parties in Serbia at the moment.
Thursday was supposed to be the day that Serbia officially started on the path to membership of the European Union. Instead it is likely to see more bickering between Serbia's coalition parties, particularly nationalist Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and pro-Western President Boris Tadic. It looks like the collapse of the Serbian government is just a question of time.
On Wednesday Kostunica blocked a cabinet meeting that would have approved the signing of a pre-membership pact with the EU scheduled for Thursday. In turn President Tadic, who was re- elected just a few days ago, is blocking a meeting of parliament where the nationalists had planned to reject the deal.
"The parliament (cannot) replace the government of Serbia," Tadic said in a statement Wednesday and called on the prime minister to call a session of the cabinet.
Kostunica, who accuses Tadic of destabilizing the country, rejects the EU deal as a sweetener intended to lure Belgrade into accepting an EU mission in the breakaway province of Kosovo. Earlier this week he said he regarded the deal on trade, visas and education as a "hoax," and on Wednesday he announced: "I'm convinced that every citizen of Serbia sees this as arrogant blackmail by the EU and that Serbia's signature ... would be a signature for Kosovo independence."
Kostunica feverently opposes the EU plans for a 1,800-strong police and civil administration mission to Kosovo, the Serbian province which has been under United Nations administration since a 1999 NATO bombing campaign ended Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansing program against the Kosovo-Albanians. The province is expected to declare independence in the coming days or weeks, a move that the United States and most EU member states back..
While both Tadic and Kostunica have vowed that they will not accept an independent Kosovo, the president does not want to link the issue with Serbia's bid for EU membership, while the prime minister sees the mission as opening the way to independence. Kostunica seems to want to force Brussels to choose between a presence in Kosovo and pursuing closer ties with Belgrade.
The European Commission has slammed Kostunica's "obstruction." On Wednesday, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said: "It is ... sad for Serbia if politicians continue to put power games ahead of their own citizens' interests." He pointed out that Serbs had already made their choice when they voted for Tadic in Sunday's run-off against ultra-nationalist Tomislav Nikolic. Tellingly Kostunica, whose conservative Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) is the junior party in the coalition with Tadic's Democratic Party (DS), did not back the president in the final round.
The split between the two parties makes it look increasingly likely that this fragile coalition will soon fall apart. If that happens, Kostunica may try to bring down the government and force new parliamentary elections, or he may try to form a new coalition with the Nikolic's ultra-national Radicals.
smd/ap/reuters/afp
Charles
America is backing the freedom of Kosovo {Albanians} as for their Independence from Serbia. In as much as Germany and indirectly that of the EU.
To add to the mix, currently, some very progressed plans of pipe line exports to European markets of energy supples out of the middle east {Iran/Iraq} are to be built through Turkey as the conduit of progress. Then to add to the puzzle, there is Kosovo question in regards to the Serbs.
To add to this mix of nonsense, The Russian Federation has at present, a very high investment into Serbia in the energy sector with export/import out of the Caspian area.
Two world superpowers, Russian Federation and The United States caught up in, for the present, non-confrontational dispute.
To add to this: The United States is/has been involved in a {going into 6 year} war in Iraq and Afghanistan drain of resources}. What this means in actual terms is this: America is committed in resources and man power in the currant situation of war. This in-turn means this: If conflict is not resolved in the Balkans, it will become a European problem.
In-as- of the above, this will mean to be drawn in resources from Poland as being in-between that of Russian interest and of Serbia. For that land will be the line of construction of energy supplies to Western Europe.
And as so, the sun comes up, and the sun goes down, but to whom will the sun shine best upon?
SPIEGEL ONLINE - February 7, 2008, 01:27 PM
URL: www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,533714,00.html
---DEADLOCK IN SERBIA---
Power Struggle in Belgrade Puts EU Plans on Ice
Serbia was supposed to sign a pre-membership deal with the EU on Thursday. Instead, its prime minister and president are locked in a bitter power struggle over whether Belgrade should accept closer ties with Brussels in the light of the proposed EU mission to Kosovo.
There is little love lost between the ruling coalition parties in Serbia at the moment.
Thursday was supposed to be the day that Serbia officially started on the path to membership of the European Union. Instead it is likely to see more bickering between Serbia's coalition parties, particularly nationalist Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and pro-Western President Boris Tadic. It looks like the collapse of the Serbian government is just a question of time.
On Wednesday Kostunica blocked a cabinet meeting that would have approved the signing of a pre-membership pact with the EU scheduled for Thursday. In turn President Tadic, who was re- elected just a few days ago, is blocking a meeting of parliament where the nationalists had planned to reject the deal.
"The parliament (cannot) replace the government of Serbia," Tadic said in a statement Wednesday and called on the prime minister to call a session of the cabinet.
Kostunica, who accuses Tadic of destabilizing the country, rejects the EU deal as a sweetener intended to lure Belgrade into accepting an EU mission in the breakaway province of Kosovo. Earlier this week he said he regarded the deal on trade, visas and education as a "hoax," and on Wednesday he announced: "I'm convinced that every citizen of Serbia sees this as arrogant blackmail by the EU and that Serbia's signature ... would be a signature for Kosovo independence."
Kostunica feverently opposes the EU plans for a 1,800-strong police and civil administration mission to Kosovo, the Serbian province which has been under United Nations administration since a 1999 NATO bombing campaign ended Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansing program against the Kosovo-Albanians. The province is expected to declare independence in the coming days or weeks, a move that the United States and most EU member states back..
While both Tadic and Kostunica have vowed that they will not accept an independent Kosovo, the president does not want to link the issue with Serbia's bid for EU membership, while the prime minister sees the mission as opening the way to independence. Kostunica seems to want to force Brussels to choose between a presence in Kosovo and pursuing closer ties with Belgrade.
The European Commission has slammed Kostunica's "obstruction." On Wednesday, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said: "It is ... sad for Serbia if politicians continue to put power games ahead of their own citizens' interests." He pointed out that Serbs had already made their choice when they voted for Tadic in Sunday's run-off against ultra-nationalist Tomislav Nikolic. Tellingly Kostunica, whose conservative Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) is the junior party in the coalition with Tadic's Democratic Party (DS), did not back the president in the final round.
The split between the two parties makes it look increasingly likely that this fragile coalition will soon fall apart. If that happens, Kostunica may try to bring down the government and force new parliamentary elections, or he may try to form a new coalition with the Nikolic's ultra-national Radicals.
smd/ap/reuters/afp
Charles