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Goodbuye HC, see you Seraphim and angelito and all of you Devil-worshiping bastards at God's court. Before I go, I wanna state my oppinions for all of you:
BASTARDS
Angelito - Serb hating
Seraphim - **************************************
antipaladin - he ist on lowsy speleng confust people
I would add also:
That red-archer guy
the cheater in my competition
pandora - ortodox hater
etc.

GOOD GUYS
Kronos1000
Elvin
Baklava
Wulfstan
Cepheus (he aint that bad)
I think that is that. Guys who had good conversations with me are also good. One last thing:

KOSOVO IS SERBIA!

Goodbuye to the good guys
To hell with the others

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I can't believe no one has said anything about this now that it has happened.  And why are Serbs attacking the U.S. embassy?  We didn't do anything to them.  Next time Iran or someone says something bad about the U.S., I'm going to go attack the French embassy, makes about the same amount of sense...

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I can't believe no one has said anything about this now that it has happened.  And why are Serbs attacking the U.S. embassy?  We didn't do anything to them.  Next time Iran or someone says something bad about the U.S., I'm going to go attack the French embassy, makes about the same amount of sense...

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The reason for the attack is probably because the U.S.A. was the first country who "accepted" the Kosovo as an own sovereign country, right after they proclaimed independance.

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International Press on Kosovo:

LONDON, VIENNA, PRAGUE -- The European press today reports on the latest twists expected in the wake of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence.

The dailies across the continent today seem to agree that while there was "no alternative" to a proclamation that runs against international law and is rejected by Serbia, the province will now face a series of serious problems, from its uncertain international status, dangers of partition, to the extremely bad economy.

"The birth of the new, problem child" will bring with it many diplomatic problems, while its survival remains uncertain, the western press says.

"Kosovo has Sunday become only a little independent, since it cannot make any decisions in the future without consent from Washington and Brussels. The biggest problem is that this state, which has only just been created, is already falling apart, since the northern, Serb-populated areas will de facto secede," Vienna's Standard reports.

Still in the Austrian capital, Kurier and Presse says that Kosovo's unilateral declaration, "while not exactly impossible to overturn under international law", had "no realistic alternative".

Editorials in five of the UK's leading dailies say that despite yesterday's celebrations in Priština, Kosovo is facing serious problems, including the fact that not even all of the EU countries will recognize it.

The Times reminds that Moscow's rejection is an even greater problem, and adds that [Kosovo PM] Hashim Thaci will have to display "iron realism" and in fact implement all the mechanisms to protect Kosovo Serbs.

The Independent says that small countries can only be prosperous if they are politically stable, economically organized and recognized by larger neighbors – none of which is the case with Kosovo, the paper concludes.

The Guardian writes that yesterday's events in Priština dealt a blow to efforts to build a new international order that will solve problems through multilateral negotiations.

"The argument that Kosovo is a unique case because of what Slobodan Milosevic did is thin," the paper says, and adds that the precedent has been set.

The Financial Times is more optimistic and says that while the unilateral declaration is "not ideal", it is the "least bad of all solutions", since it was the status quo that produced the economic hardships and flourishing of organized crime, the paper believes.

Now it is up to the EU to put in place an efficient civil mission and guarantee an open European perspective for Kosovo, at the same time increasing aid, strengthening trade and relaxing its visa regime, the daily advises.

In Germany, the papers are concentrated on the consequences of the proclamation.

"The negative impact of Kosovo's independence will be felt outside of Kosovo and Serbia," Dusseldorf's Handelsblatt writes, and adds that "likely, Kosovo is not the last episode of Yugoslavia's demise".

It is the Bosnian Serbs now who are pressuring for secession, and the West will have problems finding arguments to explain why this, once it's been allowed to Kosovo, should be withheld from the Republic of Srpska. The paper also says the "artificial creation that is Bosnia-Herzegovina will be hard to maintain against the will of the Serbs."

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says that "UN protectorate – Kosovo" has declared independence, while Welt points out to the anxiety in Europe's capitals over this "experiment with uncertain outcome".

Munich's Zuddeutsche Zeitung says that "Europe is witnessing the birth of a new nation", and that while Kosovo's Albanians celebrate, the Serbs there fear for their safety.

More to the east, and both Polish and Czech supporters and opponents of Kosovo's unilateral independence are worried today.

They believe that the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo, rejected by Serbia, will prove to be a heavy burden for Europe in the time to come.

And while the political elite in Poland believes that Kosovo should be recognized since the status quo was "impossible to maintain", analysts warn that the territory will "not be able to function independently and will have to be supported by Europe".

Lonely voices, such as Adam Balcer, claim however that Kosovo will "become economically viable and independent in a couple of years, with the EU assistance".

Although he believes that it was the unsolved status that brought with it serious economic hardships, Balcer now sees new danger for the "young state", namely, in "numerous and strong Serb enclaves" that will threaten its "territorial integrity".

Forum weekly editor-in-chief, Jacek Manikowski, disagrees:

"Kosovo is a country the size of, for instance, our Duchy of Opole, it has not strong state infrastructure, it's an illegal state. A radical change of elites must take place there. Kosovo is transfixed with strong mafia structures, organized crime and smuggling," he said.

Meanwhile, Prague daily Lidove Noviny says in a editorial today that irrelevant of the proclaimed independence, "Kosovo remains Europe's black hole".

The paper also adds that NATO "did not succeed in winning in peace, although it won the 1999 war".

"According to the plans of the winners, that is, us, Serbia was supposed to be whole today. It isn't. Not even with the help of billions of euros have we manage to turn Kosovo into a normal, civilized region, where mafia would not rule, where there would be roads, and where people would have jobs," the editorial was blunt.

Lidove Noviny goes on to say that Serbia ought to be "glad to get rid of such a black hole", and adds, "but explain that to the Serbs".

Hospodarske Novivy, another Czech daily, analyzes Kosovo's economic woes, and reminds that the province cannot count on entering international organizations, even after it is recognized by the United States and most EU member-states.

"Only the Organization of the Islamic Conference will greet them with open arms. This is how various regimes and Islamic groups can strengthen their influence in Kosovo, and Europe," the paper warns.

"Should Kosovo remain so isolated, those of opponents of its independence who said that Kosovo will become, if it already isn't one, a base for Islamic invasion of Europe, will be proved right," the article concludes.

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Newsweek

Kosovo declared independence Sunday, but it's unlikely any time soon to become the world's 193rd country. What it will almost certainly be is a failed state, unrecognized by the United Nations, unable to govern itself, dependent on Europe for its police and NATO for its armed forces.

After eight years as an international protectorate and billions of dollars in aid and reconstruction funds, its economic prospects are grim. Unemployment is 57 percent, and among youths it's more like 70 percent; half the population is under 25. Small wonder then that its chief export is organized crime. It remains ethnically cleansed of its Serb minority, who only survive in the province under armed guard by NATO. And it has the potential of provoking a wider conflict as other powers try to work out just what to do about yet another intractable Balkan mess.

In theory, Kosovo has been self-governing since NATO bombed the Serbian province for 78 days in 1999, and the United Nations under Security Council Resolution 1244 declared it an autonomous province under U.N. protection but also confirmed that it was part of Serbia. Kosovo was never a federal part of Yugoslavia, as were the other parts that broke away from Serbia's domination; despite its majority Albanian population, its long historical association with Serbia, which regarded it as something akin to the nation's Jerusalem, put it in a different class.

But massacres by Serbian troops in the province led to NATO intervention, and a U.N. mandate. Since then, the U.N. Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), along with the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), has administered all of Kosovo's civil institutions, and NATO's Kosovo Protection Force (KFOR), has provided its military protection. Efforts by the United Nations to broker a deal with Serbia on transition to independence failed last year; with Russia's support, Serbia has been intransigent on giving Kosovo anything more than mere self-rule—well short of full independence.

Finally, Kosovo's elected Parliament met Sunday and Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci read a statement declaring Kosovo "independent, sovereign and democratic." The move was expected, and Albanians filled the streets of their capital, Pristina, waving American and Albanian flags as well as the new Kosovo one (a blue banner with a yellow map of Kosovo under several stars).

But in any real sense, it remains a protectorate. There was no move to turn over U.N.-administered ministries to Kosovars, at least not so far. Because the status of the U.N. mandate is unclear, however, and the Russians will likely veto any extension of it, last week the European Union announced that it would send a 2,000-strong "police and justice" force to the territory, and NATO has said it will continue to provide security with KFOR.

In Serbia, the running joke was that the country was like Nokia: every year there was a new and tinier model of the state Slobodan Milosevic two decades ago sought to makeover into Greater Serbia. There was plenty of anger, as well. The declaration of independence provoked rioting on the streets of Belgrade, with hooligans and ultranationalists stoning police and throwing Molotov cocktails, trying to reach Western targets like the American Embassy and McDonald's outlets. Kosovo looms over the country's messy and unstable political scene; Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, an implacable foe of the EU and America, leads a shaky coalition including pro-Western elements; he called Kosovo's move "the illegitimate declaration of a puppet state on the territory of Serbia." In the recent Serbian presidential election, Boris Tadic, a pro-Western leader, only narrowly defeated the Radical Party candidate, Tomislav Nikolic, who was widely seen as a stand-in for the party's leader, an accused war criminal, Vojislav Seselj, now on trial at the Hague. Nikolic ran on a bellicose position about Kosovo.

No one expects even a more extreme Serbian government to try to invade Kosovo, at least as things stand now. But Serbs are furious about treatment of their minority in Kosovo, about 200,000 of whom have fled since the United Nations and NATO took over, and Albanian gangs began retaliating against Serbs wherever they could. Another massacre might well spark stronger reaction in Serbia, and perhaps even intervention. And unlike 1999, Serbia now has a strong ally in Russia, where President Vladimir Putin has been talking tough on the Kosovo issue; the Russians called for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council to meet Monday. And KFOR is a much weaker force than it originally was, with U.S. troops drawn down for Iraq and other NATO partners worried about staffing Afghanistan. Richard Holbrooke, the former U.S. secretary of State who was America's point man during the Balkan wars, has previously called for reinforcing KFOR, especially if Kosovo declares independence—which it has just done.

In the coming days, it's widely expected that the United States and many European countries will recognize Kosovo's independence. But Russia will certainly veto its admission to the United Nations. And even the EU will face difficulties internally, with six of its 22 member states unlikely to endorse the move; these include Spain, Romania, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Slovakia. For countries like Spain, with its restive Basque region, and Cyprus, where the Turkish north of the country has declared a rump state, Kosovo is a dangerous precedent. It's the first time since World War II that the internal borders of a European country are being redrawn, with the exception of course of Germany. But then, Kosovo is no Germany.

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Lidove Noviny goes on to say that Serbia ought to be "glad to get rid of such a black hole", and adds, "but explain that to the Serbs".

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well how do you,baklva feel about what had happend

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well how do you,baklva feel about what had happend,and you seraphim? I mean they have alot difficulties,like every new born country,to rebuild it econimica,but i also bare the question:
Will it unite to albania as a province,or remaine a nation of its own?
and if kosovers recived it own indepdence,so should basque,palastinas and anything else of that metter?

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How I feel?I can say awsomeness pure.How would you feel after a long and important way to indepedence? I just would like to thank all the states and people,who support and recognize Kosovo as a state

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How I feel?I can say awsomeness pure.How would you feel after a long and important way to indepedence? I just would like to thank all the states and people,who support and recognize Kosovo as a state

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be carefull,when israel did it,indepdence war of israel begane.
what is kosovonain opinion about israel?

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