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Kosovo prime minister seeks reconciliation with Serbia
Mar 8, 2009, 14:14 GMT
Pristina - Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci on Sunday expressed a wish for conciliation with Serbia, inviting Serbian President Boris Tadic to the former Serbia province.
Thaci made the invitation after a visit to Kosovo's Serb enclave of Caglavica, a suburb of the capital Pristina.
Communication between Pristina and Belgrade is 'unavoidable' and is in the interests of Kosovo, said Thaci.
Thaci invited Tadic to his office in Pristina, adding that in accepting such an invitation, Tadic should recognize that he should be visiting an institution of the Republic of Kosovo.
Belgrade has consistently repeated that it would not recognize Kosovo's independence, which the former province's ethnic Albanian leadership proclaimed February last year.
Meanwhile, more than 50 people were reported injured in a violent demonstration by Serbs in the Kosovo town of Gnjilane, media reports out of Belgrade said.
Around 500 people blocked the Gnjilane-Kamenica road in protest against several days of lack of electricity, according to Kosovo police in Pristina.
Five police officers were injured when demonstrators threw stones at intervening police.
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The other commenter has no clue what he's talking about. PM Thaci is being sincere and mature, two things serbs aren't, by inviting Tadic into Republic of Kosova for a visit --- not talks. It wouldn't hurt for Tadic to visit Kosova for the first time in his life. Serbs keep throwing propaganda such as Kosova is Serbian but not even 10% of them have ever visited or been to Kosova.
Thaci is a war criminal. They can only talk about he is going hand himself over.
Hashim Thaci has a lot of blood on his hands no matter how much Western-made soap-media he will apply.
His place in history is secured.
Thaci must need something from Serbia.Serbia should ignore him. I am so glad.
Anyone who wants to know the real truth about the events that happend in the Balkans is welcome to checkout these links:
1. 'Czech' documentary availible on YouTube 'Stolen Kosovo'.
2. Currently availible on Serb blog 'Media War' (although again this slide show is not created by Serbs).
3. Emporers new clothes blog
If Thaci is so desperate to meet Tadic, then why doesn't he meet him in Beograd.
The article assumes that the reader can think only what s/he is told. The title about attempted 'conciliation' is a joke and lacks any credibility. Hashim Thaci clearly says that he wants no talks (so why visit, eh?). In fact, his 'invitation' sounds like a thinly veiled attempt at a dictate to the Serbian prime that he 'should recognize' (to quote the article itself) the 'Republic of Kosova.' There is nothing conciliatory in this demand. It would thus more correct and honest of the title of the article said instead: 'Kosova Leader tries to send directives to Belgrade.' Instead of these insincere, misleading, and empty gestures, he should not invite Tadic, but the expelled and ethnically cleansed Serbs and Gypsies back, and ask the US to keep this time his KLA in check. Even rebuilding at least one of the medieval Christian churches and monasteries, which they razed to ground under his watch, would be more helpful than such phony posturing.
Thaci is sounding more ludicrous and desperate each day. I think he's hoping for an amnesty from Belgrade because he knows the Yanks are about to drop him just as they do all their puppets.
The comments that the Kosovar made are somewhat true. I'm not sure about how he came to 10% but that his business. Why don't you explain why Serbs have not been able to visit Kosovo or better yet why Serbs were leaving the province on mass? DO you think it may have something to do with the weather or the barbarianism of their Muslim Albanain neighbours?
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Hypocritical Propaganda!Mar 8th, 2009 - 15:02:27
How pathetic and hypocritical this Tachi's invitation sounds is best explained by the fact that there are about 60 Kosovo Serbs (yes it's 60) left in the city of Pristina from the former 40,000 who lived there before NATO marched in. All of 60 Kosovo Serbs are placed in one single building kept by NATO and surrounded by the barbwire. And more then 200,000 Kosovo Serbs are still displaced around camps in Serbia. And Thaci has some audacity to 'invite Serbian President' for talks.
I hope European countries will stop falling into this photo-op propaganda from the failed Kosovo government. It's last moment to realize that 'Great Albania' will not be tolerated in Europe.
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