23.3.2010 by ctstmaser.

Belgrade | 23 March 2010 | Bojana Barlovac

NATO Headquarters

Petar Boskovic, the head of the Directorate for Public Affairs at the Ministry of Defense, has announced that a Serbian mission to NATO at its headquarters in Brussels will be officially opened by the beginning of June.

 http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/26803/

Geschrieben in Balkan (Englisch) | Keine Kommentare »

23.3.2010 by ctstmaser.

Pristina | 22 March 2010 | Lawrence Marzouk

Emblem of Prizren

The emblem of the Municipality of Prizren, Kosovo, has been ruled as anti-constitutional as it does not reflect the commune’s ‘multi-ethnicity’.

The Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the emblem, which includes an image of the League of Prizren building, the spiritual home of Albanian nationalism, must be changed.

The decision was welcomed by the International Civilian Representative (ICR), Pieter Feith, who said it was ‘both well-reasoned and thorough’.

He said: “It is a boost to the rule of law in Kosovo that the applicant could have his claim decided on by the Constitutional Court, when he was of the view that the Municipal Assembly’s Decision violated the rights of Prizren’s non-majority communities to protect and promote their identities.

“Municipal emblems can be a powerful symbol of common identity. It is right that in the case of Prizren, the municipal emblem should reflect the multi-ethnic nature of the municipality and be a common meeting point for all of its citizens.

“This decision strongly reinforces the principle that protecting and promoting the cultural and linguistic rights of all communities strengthens Kosovo and its development as a democratic society.”

The lawsuit was brought by the former deputy mayor of the municipality, Xhemajl Kurtishi, a Bosniak.

Municipality officials have yet to announce what changes will be made.

The Constitutional Court has given the municipality a three-month deadline to bring in a new emblem.

aus http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/26791/

financed from the Georg Soros mafia!

10 Shqip
		Projects http://komuna-prizren.org/en/projects/
		Istog Kaçanik Klinë Prizren Podujevë Viti Vushtrri
© Delta 2003 all rights reserved

Geschrieben in Balkan (Englisch), Balkan | Keine Kommentare »

23.3.2010 by ctstmaser.

BOOK:  THE IRAQ PAPERS

An extensive compilation of official documents, policy advocacy statements, and assorted commentary on the U.S. decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is presented in “The Iraq Papers,” a new book from Oxford University Press.

Since it seems that there will be no new official reckoning of the Iraq war or other Bush Administration policy choices, it will be left to others to achieve their own understanding of the Bush era and its aftermath.  “The Iraq Papers” provides one possible documentary starting point.

“The decision to invade Iraq launched a new doctrine of preemptive war, mired the American military in an intractable armed conflict, disrupted world petroleum supplies, cost the United States billions of dollars, and damaged or ended the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and Iraqis,” the book states.

The book editors are not overly perplexed by these events.  Somewhat heavy-handedly, they offer their own interpretation of events involving the decisive influence of neo-conservatives, the unitary executive, and a U.S. drive to global hegemony, among other factors.  Alternative explanations are not considered here.

See “The Iraq Papers,” edited by John Ehrenberg, J. Patrice McSherry, Jose Ramon Sanchez, and Caroleen Marji Sayej, Oxford University Press, January 2010.

Geschrieben in Welt News Spezial | Keine Kommentare »