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"We are people that cannot agree to a minimum of its national program inside which we can define basic interests and principles of our national identity," says Serbia's former Minister of Defense, Dr. Prvoslav Davinic, and warns that Serbia has no national consensus on basic questions of national interest. "We are very divided society. Anyone says what they want and does what he wants," says Davinic.
Most of all, warns Davinic, independence of Kosovo could lead to partition of its northern part, break up of southern Serbia and Bosnia, unless Serbia wins a victory with its own military reform.
Say Davinic, in an interview:
In spring of 2004, political and military leadership of Serbia was informed that Albanian nationalists have a goal to declare independence of Kosovo by illegal means. That analysis was done by the Military security agency... So a new concept of defense was suggested, so that by strengthening and modernizing the Army the Albanian separatism could be thwarted. However, I dd not get the financial support for this plan and Albanians have declared independence and are in a position to, in few months, demand secession of the Presevo Valley...
1 comments:
JJ,
Everyone who was reasonable knew that Slobodan Milosevic lost Kosovo in 1999.
The biggest mistake the new Serbian government that came into power in 2000 have made was that they did not come out clean and announce to the nation that Kosovo was de facto lost as a part of Serbia. They should have blamed it on Milosevic and his policies, as it was the case.
Instead of Milosevic being rightfully portrayed as someone responsible for the loss of the Serbian “Jerusalem,” they will now get the blame. The Economist writes that “for the past couple of years Serbian leaders have repeated that Kosovo would never be independent. No wonder ordinary Serbs are angry and confused.”
I’ve written a short article on my own blog concerning Kosovo’s independence. I'd love to hear your comments on it.
SAVO HELETA
Author of "Not My Turn to Die:
Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia"
http://savoheleta.livejournal.com
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