In an interview with Radio Free Europe, Rashkovic-Ivic said that by his recent statement "Serbs as a nation are guilty", the UN Envoy Ahtisaari "has debased and insulted the Serbian nation", clearly taking the Albanian side in the negotiating process.
"Before Ahtisaari only Hitler had dared to say that an entire people was guilty.... Scandalous, shameful and racist.
(Macedonia) August 28, 2006 - Serbia might request Ahtisaari's recall
Belgrade - The President of the Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija, Sanda Rashkovic-Ivic, will put forward a motion recommending to the Belgrade negotiating team to urge the recall of Martti Ahtisaari from the post of chief UN mediator in the negotiations over Kosovo.
In an interview with Radio Free Europe, Rashkovic-Ivic said that by his recent statement "Serbs as a nation are guilty", the UN Envoy Ahtisaari "has debased and insulted the Serbian nation", clearly taking the Albanian side in the negotiating process.
A meeting of the Serbian negotiating team aimed at reviewing the results of the current stage of Kosovo status talks is taking place on Monday.
It is due to be attended also by the President Boris Tadic, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic. Simultaneously, the Serbian Parliament convened for a session today to discuss the same topic.
As announced, the Serbian negotiators are due to decide on further steps, in the light of the recent Ahtisaari statement that "Serbs as a nation are guilty", i.e. that Slobodan Milosevic's policy will be taken into consideration when making decision on the Kosovo's status, since "every nation has to take responsibility for its past".
A weekend bomb [was used] against a cafe in the northern Serb area of the divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica where ethnic Albanians live to the south of a UN-guarded bridge.
Ahtisaari, winding up his four-day visit to Kosovo on Friday, indirectly confirmed his earlier stance.Asked by journalists for comment he said that "every nation carries a burden for which it has to pay".
The statement further enraged Belgrade, which opposes Kosovo's independence, and some politicians even called for Ahtisaari's resignation.
Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said in a statement that while the UN was seeking "a just and tenable solution for the status of Kosovo" Ahtisaari seemed "determined to do just the opposite."
Ahtisaari has been creating the impression that the negotiations were unnecessary, he said, "because the solution already exists and has only to be implemented - and that is Kosovo independence".
Spokesman for Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia, Andreja Mladenovic, said that "before Ahtisaari only Hitler had dared to say that an entire people was guilty", slamming Ahtisaari's statement as "scandalous, shameful and racist.
"Tension was heightened after an attack late Saturday on a Serbian cafe in the city of Kosovska Mitrovica, in which nine people, including a UN policemen and a pregnant Dutch woman, were injured.
The Serbian government said in a statement the "terrorist act" was encouraged by Ahtisaari's statement that "Serbs were guilty as a people".
"If something like that is said by a special envoy of the UN Secretary-general in the talks on the Kosovo status, then any violence against Serbs in justified and awarded," the government statement said.
The cafe in the divided Kosovo town of Mitrovica on Saturday, which injured nine people, has fuelled fears of a fresh wave of violence in the UN-run province, where nearly two million ethnic Albanians are pushing for independence from Serbia.
Alan's Footnote: to please the Islamic Regime of Iran, IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) top dog - Arab ex- General El-Barfadei removed his top investigator Chris Charlier, who insisted his evidence showed Iran was building a nucler bomb. Will Kofi Annan consider a non-Moslem request in similar fashion?
"Serbs as a nation are guilty"
ReplyDeleteYeah right! (sarc) And we all know just how spotlessly innocent and harmless Muslims are (sarc).
F&*king lying bastard hypocrites.
I suppose Srebrenica didn't exist?
ReplyDeleteIf that's the case, then the Holocaust didn't happen. /sarcasm
Dumbass.