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02 07 2007 Pristina _ Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Agim Ceku, said there was no alternative for Kosovo except independence.
“We cannot negotiate over something for which we have no mandate,” he said during the course of a regular Monday talk on Radio Kosova.
Ceku said the process Kosovo was undergoing did not depend on Kosovo politicians alone and that they were focusing on the transition period in getting as many competences as possible from the international administration.
The UN protectorate since 1999 is still claimed by Serbia as an integral part of its territory though about 90 per cent of the population is Albanian.
A plan drafted by a UN special envoy, Martti Ahtisaari, recommending internationally supervised independence for Kosovo, has stalled before the UN Security Council on account of Russian objections.
Russia and its ally, Serbia, are demanding a fresh round of negotiations over Kosovo.
Kosovo leaders rejecting this option. “The independence of Kosovo is not negotiable and cannot be avoided because it is the will of the majority of people living in Kosovo,” Ceku reaffirmed on Monday.
“We see Kosovo as a member of United Nations”, he added.
At the beginning of 2010 BIRN network published Digging Deeper - A Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans, written in cooperation with Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and professor of professional practice at Columbia University, New York.
Komentari:
Ceku is correct
Poslao: 2007-07-02 21:33:18,
The right of self determination should trump all other matters. Kosovo was originally incorporated into Yugoslavia(not Serbia) by force in the early 1900's. The Serbian Govt. view is based on myth.