13.11.2010 by CrniLabudovi.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Kosovo: The UNSC Debates and William Walker Filibusters In

The UN Security Council met on November 12 to debate the October 29 report by the Secretary General on Kosovo. Much of the report and the debate focused on the north. The SG repeated (via the noon briefing) his concern “over the recent report by the Kosovo authorities and the subsequent media commentaries against the presence of the UN Mission (UNMIK) in the north, which have risked placing United Nations staff in danger.” Vis-a-vis demands from the Albanian side that UNMIK leave the north, he said the UN “would be prepared to hand over its functions in northern Kosovo to a structure which is legitimate and acceptable to all communities, in accordance with the United Nations policy of status neutrality.” Until then, he urged all sides “to continue their cooperation with UNMIK in delivering its mandate.” The UN Special Representative in Kosovo warned that continued tensions and low level incidents in the north endanger peace and stability there. Russian UN Representative Vitaly Churkin pointed the finger at “unilateral” actions taken by Pristina and its international allies to change the reality in northern Kosovo, includingAlbanian construction efforts in north Mitrovica and plans to impose a court there without coordinating with local Serbs or UNMIK. 

There was another grenade attack in north Mitrovica on the 12^th. A car and property of a local Serb living in the Bosnia Mahala was reportedly damaged with no injuries. But in general, since the dual arrival of the new head of EULEX and colder weather, things have been relatively quiet in the north.

Attention south of the Ibar is, of course, on the upcoming election. Into this, the hero of Kosovo Albanians is apparently stepping, and not lightly. Currently in Kosovo to help campaign for the Self-Determination Movement, William Walker reportedly told an Albanian news outlet that he supports the creation of a Greater Albania formed from Albania and Kosovo.

I’m with Walker on this. Despite the repeat warning from Soren Jessen-Petersen and Dan Serwer (in the New York Times) against changing borders in the Balkans to settle remaining issues, it may be the best way forward. Multi-ethnic democracy is a misnomer. In no post-conflict state anywhere has imposition of majority-rule democracy failed to magnify and keep alive the ethnic differences that led to the conflict in the first place. Indeed, even in the advanced democracies of Europe, ethnic differences have led to break-ups – Czechoslovakia – and impending splits – Belgium.

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http://outsidewalls.blogspot.com/2010/11/kosovo-unsc-debates-and-william-walker.html

November 10, 2010

The Balkans Can Still Be Lost

By SOREN JESSEN-PETERSEN and DANIEL SERWER

As NATO, the United States, the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe prepare for summit meetings this fall, the Balkans may yet spoil the party.

The peace-building process there boasts remarkable successes — the end of the Bosnian war, the fall of Slobodan Milosevic and the rise of democratic Serbia, the independence of Kosovo, impending Croatian membership in the E.U. But failure in the Balkans is still a possibility and would embarrass Europeans and Americans alike.

There are three issues that haunt the region: Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country that remains mired in continuing — though currently nonviolent — ethnic tension; relations between Serbia and Kosovo remain unsettled; and Macedonia is unable to join NATO or the European Union until Greece’s objection to its name (which Athens claims for Greece) is resolved.

Bosnia’s problems are rooted in the Constitution imposed on the warring factions 15 years ago at the Dayton peace talks. It creates a nonfunctional state unable to meet the many requirements of either NATO or E.U. membership. Constitutional amendments are required to eliminate discrimination on ethnic grounds and provide the Sarajevo government with the authority and responsibility it needs to negotiate for NATO and E.U. membership.

Efforts to impose such amendments have failed. What Brussels and Washington need to do now is set out clear criteria that Sarajevo will have to meet before and during the E.U. accession process. Recent elections in Bosnia open up new possibilities for reform, and Serbia’s own progress toward the E.U. should depend on its willingness to insist that the Bosnian Serbs cooperate with the country’s Muslims and Croats to amend the Constitution in ways that will make E.U. membership possible.

On Kosovo, the U.N. General Assembly in October recommended that talks begin on practical issues (like trade, energy, environment, health, border facilities, missing persons, return of the displaced) between Belgrade and Pristina, with the E.U. facilitating and the U.S. supporting. This is a good idea whose time has come, but Belgrade will try to use the talks to suggest “corrections” to Kosovo’s borders that would allow Serbia to absorb the Serb communities in northern Kosovo.

This movement of a border to accommodate ethnic differences is dangerous and would open up border questions throughout the Balkans: certainly in Macedonia and Bosnia, but likely also in the Albanian-populated areas of southern Serbia and Montenegro as well. Serbia and Kosovo need to stick to the task at hand, establishing good relations on a host of practical issues on the basis of mutual respect, as required for E.U. accession.

The government in Skopje faces an uphill battle against Athens, which wants “Macedonia” to be qualified in a way that will distinguish it from what Greeks claim to be exclusively their own domain. Without resolution of this issue, Macedonia faces a long purgatory, without the NATO membership for which it has prepared and without any serious prospect of E.U. membership, a prospect that has kept the country’s ethnic groups from descending into internecine warfare.

Brussels and Washington need to untie this knot, which has tightened with every passing year since Macedonia’s independence in 1991. It hardly seems appropriate for Athens to be thumbing its nose at Brussels at a time when it desperately needs E.U. economic backing. For NATO membership, Washington and Brussels should insist that Greece live up to its 1995 agreement to accept Skopje under the euphemistic and anachronistic name “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Fyrom).” Provided Skopje is prepared to signal its willingness to add an acceptable geographic qualifier to its name, it is time also for the E.U. to give Macedonia a date for the start of accession talks, a move that would further stabilize the country and also create a strong incentive for Skopje and Athens to come to terms.

The peace-building mission in the Balkans is not yet accomplished, even after 15 years of often close U.S./E.U. cooperation. Only when all the region’s countries are irreversibly on a course toward the E.U. will we be able to celebrate. Likely no more than five more years are required. Until then, we need to keep the Balkans on track, ensuring that Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia remain on the train.

Soren Jessen-Petersen, a Dane and Daniel Serwer, an American, are lecturers at Georgetown University. They have worked on the Balkans for 15 years.

NYtimes

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13.11.2010 by CrniLabudovi.

Der Chef des Terrornetzwerks al Kaida, Osama bin Laden, sowie sein Stellvertreter Ayman al Sawahiri halten sich laut einem Bericht des US-Fernsehsenders CNN in Pakistan auf. Sie hätten sich in zwei verschiedenen Häusern im Nordwesten des Landes versteckt, meldete CNN am Montag unter Berufung auf einen ranghohen Nato-Vertreter. “Keiner von al Kaida lebt in einer Höhle”, zitierte der Sender den Gewährsman…

Dort hatte sich bin Laden vermutlich bis Ende 2001 aufgehalten. Woher diese Informationen stammen, wollte der Nato-Vertreter nicht sagen. Laut CNN ist der Gewährsmann direkt mit dem Afghanistan-Einsatz befasst.

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Ja, was das wohl wieder stimmt, im Theater der US Geheimdienste, die nur noch Müll Propaganda produzieren

Der Innenminister von Pakistan dementiert das!

Hunt for bin Laden missed ‘real opportunity’

Posted on 12 November 2010

Hamburg, FRG (CNN) — When Osama containerful Laden was existence bombed at Tora Bora, Dr. August Hanning was Germany’s external info honcho live with labour him down.

“He was watching the bombing,” Hanning told CNN in an inner interview. “I undergo this,” Hanning told CNN without elaborating on his maker of information.

After containerful Laden free from the elevation in Dec 2001 Hanning said he had agents intake him aggregation most the al Qaeda’s chief’s movements.

Frustratingly however, their aggregation never led to actionable info that would hit allowed Western agencies to advise against al Qaeda’s leader.

“We hit got aggregation ever on where he was. And that’s the difficulty — days, hebdomad later. But he was inform there. He hadn’t mitt the region,” Hanning told CNN.

Hanning says that after containerful Laden free from Tora Bora the see for al Qaeda’s cheater became such harder.

“I knew there was a quantity in Afghanistan I conceive directly before Tora Bora and in Tora Bora … I conceive there was a actual possibleness to grownup him and afterwards in Pakistan it became rattling difficult,” Hanning told CNN.

It was an possibleness the planetary accord and the United States in portion hit beatific conceive to regret. His categorization of containerful Laden’s knowledge to enliven and advance today strength attain him more chanceful today than backwards then.

“He’s not effective but I conceive he knows the basics. He makes strategic decisions, and of instruction he’s a signaling amount and figures are important. “

Hanning, who was ordained State Secretary in the Teutonic agent Interior Ministry at the modify of 2005 — digit of the country’s most grownup counter-terrorism positions — old New terminal year.

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CNN Artikel

Jagd nach dem Top-Terroristen Wo steckt Osama bin Laden? 10.09.2010, 20:59 Seit Jahren wird der Chef der Terrororganisation al Kaida gejagt. Aber weder Spezialeinheiten noch verwirrte Einzelkämpfer konnten Osama bin Laden bislang aufspüren. Eine Chronologie.   mehr…

Anti-Terrorkampf BND-Chef attackiert US-Fahnder 12.04.2005, 08:14 Die Suche nach Osama bin Laden ist durch grundlegende Fehler Washingtons erschwert worden - behauptet BND-Präsident August Hanning. Die USA standen 2001 kurz vor der Gefangennahme des Terroristenchefs.   mehr…

Al-Quida ist eine Erfindung der US Geheimdienste, was durch andere Geheimdienste, wie auch dem Ex-Italienischen Präsdenten Cossiga usw.. bestätigt wurde. Hier bestätigt das ein CIA Direktor.

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13.11.2010 by CrniLabudovi.

B92 News Politics

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“Serbia wants dialogue as soon as possible”
10:22 | Source:Tanjug
Serbia wants the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina to begin as soon as possible, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić said Friday in New York.

Ban: Dialogue to open up new phase
10:25 | Source:Tanjug
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo which should begin soon. 

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