Kosovo Threatens Independence
In a highly divisive yet expected move, Kosovo sets an independence date. The horrors and tensions in yet another creation of a state within a state are not easily cast aside. It is difficult to forget the history associated with such political maneuvers. India and Pakistan, Palestine and Israel, to name a couple.
Vuk Jeremic, the Serbian foreign minister remarks:
“We shall undertake all diplomatic, political, and economic measures designed to impede and reverse this direct and unprovoked attack on our sovereignty.”
Despite the harsh words from most of Serbia’s political world, there have been assurances that any and all action taken to prevent independence will be pacific and diplomatic. It remains to be seen what Serbia’s ally Russia intends to do. With Kosovo at the center of a battle of Superpowers, western blocks opposed to the increasingly assertive Russians, it seems more of a race to ascertain which blocks hold more global influence, then a delicate human rights issue.
Al Jazeera reports that certain tensions have already begun to arise, a disquieting prelude to what could come.
Highlighting the tensions in the region over the province’s intention to secede, Serbian police reported an explosion on Thursday in a northern border town divided between Serbs and Albanians.
Police said early reports show that the explosion in Mitrovica was near the site earmarked as the base of the future European Union mission.
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As an aside, this post is really just an update on the previous.