Funny things happen when provinces declare independence. Other provinces start down the same path.
Perhaps it's too early in the process to hear such a call quite yet, but when US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns is forced to comment on calls for Kosovo's northern, Serb-dominated enclaves to break away and join with Serbia proper, you know that a nationalist genie has been let out of the diplomatic bottle.
"We absolutely oppose the partition of Kosovo. And a great majority of countries around the world are not going to stand for that" announced the Secretary.
Quite right. Such a move would require a unilateral declaration of independence by the provinces of Leposavic, Zvecan and Zubin Potok and the fragmentation of a European nation state along ethnic lines, something the US and Britain would never agree to.
Ahmm.
Perhaps it's too early in the process to hear such a call quite yet, but when US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns is forced to comment on calls for Kosovo's northern, Serb-dominated enclaves to break away and join with Serbia proper, you know that a nationalist genie has been let out of the diplomatic bottle.
"We absolutely oppose the partition of Kosovo. And a great majority of countries around the world are not going to stand for that" announced the Secretary.
Quite right. Such a move would require a unilateral declaration of independence by the provinces of Leposavic, Zvecan and Zubin Potok and the fragmentation of a European nation state along ethnic lines, something the US and Britain would never agree to.
Ahmm.
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