United States favors outright independence
http://www.invest-in-serbia.com/index.php Source: http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/
Speaking about privatisation in Kosovo-Metohija, Covic stressed the need for full respect of ownership documents ownership rights, and the right of all employees to take part in privatisation, regardless of their ethnicity.
Waiting on Kosovo Source: International Herald Tribune Thursday, March 3, 2005
Kosovo Albanians have trampled the rights of the Serb minority in a fashion not easily distinguishable from the treatment they justly complained about at the hands of the Serbs.
It was the West that belatedly took the lead in halting Serb atrocities. It would be a great shame if it walked away from its responsibilities now and let Kosovo go from a region in which Serbs persecuted Albanians to a troubled microstate in which Albanians persecute Serbs.
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An extra 600 German troops will fly into Kosovo on Sunday to reinforce the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping mission for six weeks, NATO said on Wednesday. Their arrival will raise KFOR strength in the U.N. administered province to 19,000. The NATO source rejected the notion that the move was motivated by forecasts of violence should the U.N. war crimes tribunal decide to indict Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj for his role in the 1999 guerrilla war against Serb forces.
Greek policy on Kosovo, Source: Kathimerini 02.03.2005.
The UN Security Council report due to be published in June will determine the course of events. It is an open secret that the
When ethnic Albanians talk about independence they mean an ethnically pure state, purged of the Serbian element.
Source: Reuters Thu Feb 24, 2005
Mobitel(Slovenian state-owned mobile phone operator) and WW(Western Wireless Corp.) are also rivals for a second mobile phone network in Kosovo. In October, after Mobitel won a tender for the network along with its local partner Mobikos, the United Nations cancelled the tender due to concerns voiced by Kosovo's government and Western diplomats over corruption.
Mobitel said in its Thursday statement it was also in talks with WW regarding possible cooperation in Kosovo but gave no further explanation.
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