What next for Kosovo?

**JR-** · 12-09-2007, 14:06

* There's a minefield just ahead in Kosovo *
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m.../09/do0906.xml

Kosovo seems a right mess, what are your thoughts on the future direction it should take?

**JR-** · 12-09-2007, 14:13

Remain Not an option because Kosovar Albanians will unilaterally declare independence anyway.

Gain Will never get UNSC recognition and will leave the 10% of Serb Kosovars as a festering sore in the country.

Perpetual Oh joy, create another Palestine under UN mandate, bound to be a winner.

Partition Possibly the least dreadful choice of the lot, and the one that gets my vote.

**KrooK** · 12-09-2007, 20:31

Kosovo must belong to Serbia. If it declare independence we will be having another terror zone into Europe.

**Fragony** · 12-09-2007, 20:59

I know quite some people from there, it's never going to work. They don't even dislike eachother that much. It's history.

**rvg** · 12-09-2007, 22:59

Originally Posted by KrooK

Kosovo must belong to Serbia. If it declare independence we will be having another terror zone into Europe.

That about sums it up. NATO should never have interfered there.

**Papewaio** · 12-10-2007, 01:39

Originally Posted by KrooK

If it declare independence we will be having another terror zone into Europe.

How, and why would having independence would make it a terror state?

**rvg** · 12-10-2007, 03:19

Originally Posted by Papewaio

How, and why would having independence would make it a terror state?

More instability more war, and another conflict to draw in a whole bunch of mujaheddin from all over middle east.

**Papewaio** · 12-10-2007, 03:26

Next drilldown:

How and why would it be more unstable as a smaller state?

Norway and New Zealand are tiny states yet some of the most stable and nicest places to live in the world.

**Tribesman** · 12-10-2007, 03:36

Kosovo must belong to Serbia. If it declare independence we will be having another terror zone into Europe.

That makes no sense at all , if 90% of the population are forced to stay under the government that represents 10% of the population you are going to have trouble anyway .
If 10% of the population are forced to stay under a new government that represents 90% of the people you are going to have trouble too .

**DukeofSerbia** · 12-18-2007, 18:23

I will comment others tomorrow, but for start:

Originally Posted by Furunculu5

Remain Not an option because Kosovar Albanians will unilaterally declare independence anyway.

They can and what would happen? They can't enter in any organization if UN Security Council UN doesn't confirm their status which would never happen. Albanians will try that adventure ONLY if USA orders them. But USA is entering in election year, so bye bye. If Albanians didn't break in Milošević era and when Russia was a joke they won't now when our state is democracy, our economy greatly improved [and still] and we have Russia behind us.

Originally Posted by Furunculu5

Gain Will never get UNSC recognition and will leave the 10% of Serb Kosovars as a festering sore in the country.

Without bless of UN Security Council it won't happen. And it won't because Russian Federation (and PR China probably) will veto as we [Serbia] will never accept independence of our province.

Originally Posted by Furunculu5

Perpetual Oh joy, create another Palestine under UN mandate, bound to be a winner.

Not realistic but EU is trying that.

Originally Posted by Furunculu5

Partition Possibly the least dreadful choice of the lot, and the one that gets my vote.

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Partition will create havoc in Balkan. Our Government refuses to talk about it as FYROM and Bosnia would explode and could provoke instabilities in some parts of Serbia [which some states (semi)secretly want].