Who deservs Kosovo? Serbia or Albania?
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Kosovo and Metohija (Mae-toe-khy-a) is southern Serbian province. It originates such status from 1974 Yugoslav Constitution, when Yugoslav president Tito (president from 1945 to 1980; born 1892, died 1980) - old and not having total power any more, had to make new deals with nationalists from Croatia (Croatia was the only country that was with Germany in II WW but after war was awarded more territories than it had before the war) who wanted their independant state. So, as an answer, some of them were send to prison for a while, but Serbia was divided into two provinces and one unidentified central region left in the middle: like P-C-P model (Province-Central_Area-Province). Why was that? \n\n  Because Croats stated that Serbia has much power in Yugoslavia. Serbia was kingdom before joining in Yugoslav state (state of Yugo (South) Slave(n)s), and outnumbered all the other nations that joined into one country. So, Tito decided to divide Serbia into three parts, and two of them became "little republics into a republic", and third (central part) had no attribute - strange indeed. So, Serbia had three governments then: Kosovo and Metohia, Vojvodina, and (joined) Serbian government. Central part didn't have it's own parliament.\n\n  When war started in Yugoslavia, Kosovo Albanians tried to separate from Serbia. They didn't succeed for years, but finally, with American help (and with help of people who have great influence in some European countries where USA has it's own great influence), they will soon have independance.\n\n  Well, independance in way called secession (like California decides to leave USA), and with 40.000 USA troops.\n\n  I guess any part of world where USA and NATO (USA again) have their interests can gain independance from the country they belong to, just as long as USA can install government and bring it's army, oil companies, rockets, etc.\n\n  Simple as that...\n\n  Read my answer to question: "Secret marriage?" - you'll find it if you click on my profile, and then find it in my answer list.\n\n  Read also: "If there was no USA and UN influence on the Balkans, would Serbia rule the western Balkans? if not, who would?"\n\n  Regards,\nm.
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kosovo is just north of albania and south of serbia.  it used to be part of the old yugoslavia.  when communism proved to be a real bad idea and yugoslavia was broken up, kosovo remained a semi-autonomous part of serbia, whereas croatia and bosnia-herzegovninia broke off from serbia and the bosnian war started.\n\nduring the bosnian war, kosovo was pretty quiet, more or less.  after the dayton accords were signed and peacekeepers came in to try to quell violence, kosovo heated up.  the people of kosovo are ethnic albanians.  they dont like the serbs.  kosovars are muslim.  serbs are orthodox Christian (i think that's the title).  so, big disagreements there.  kosovo decided it wanted independence from serbia after the bosnian war and there started an insurrection against serbian troops operating in kosovo.\n\nsoon the violence grew to an untenable level.  the kosovars wanted some recognition from the international community and finally madaleine albright (us sec of state at the time) decided she would come to the rescue.  after a really phoney attempt at talking through the problem at a conference in rambuillouiex - or some damn french city - the serbians weren't backing down from the US demands for kosovo independence or whatever so albright decided to start bombing serbian troops.  this went on for a few weeks and there was no way in hell CLinton was going to allow ground troops in.  he even came out and said that when the conflict started - which i thought was stupid.  pretty soon, though, slobodan milosevic, the pres of serbia said to hell with it all and pulled his troops out of kosovo.\n\nnow kosovo is just as F'd up as ever (they are a real backwater people in SE Europe; lots of ancient gypsies, etc.) and milosevic is dead and clinton/albright are out of office.\n\ni believe we still have a small contingent of troops in kosovo, although we are out of bosnia now.
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Albania is located in southeast Europe on the Adriatic Sea. Long a warring ground for rulers and peoples ranging from the Romans and Turks to the Serbs and Bulgarians, Albania became a republic in 1925. Tiranë is the capital and the largest city.
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Montenegro, they separate from Serbia about 1 month ago.\n\nMaybe you would see another country in Europe forming, after Cataluña getting independence from Spain.
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OK well first...Yugoslavia no longer exists. ...\n\nThese are the countries that it used to comprise...\n\n Slovenia..Croatia...Bosnia..Serbia... (and now)Montenegro - only this week they have had a referendum to split from Serbia...Kosovo is still a province of Serbia..but is likely to become independent soon.. \n\n\nTo answer this you must first know a little about the history of Yugoslavia.... \n\nYugoslavia only came into existence after world war 2.\nBefore that roughly the same area was called the kingdom of the Serbs, Slovenes and Croats. This only existed after the first world war.\nBefore that Serbia and Croatia, and Bosnia etc had separate histories and cultural influences. Serbia was under the Ottoman empire whilst Croatia was under the Austro-Hungarian.\nSome people say that Yugoslavia only stayed together because of Tito's firm grip. Tito died in 1980. In the 1980's Yugoslavia economy first started showing the signs of strain that had already existed but were hidden well by Tito's position in the world, and Yugoslavia prestige of not being neither West or East.\nThis was the time when nationalist tensions first became to show (they had appeared before but were dealt with efficiently by Tito -- both Tudjman and Izabegovic 1st presidents of modern Croatia and Bosnia respectively had spent time in prison for nationalism)\nBy the times of the late 80's , Yugoslavia was ready to fall apart... \nNationalism was everywhere..\nIn Serbia started by a nationalist memorandum in 1986 by intellectuals... \nBy 1989 (a then new) Milosevic had removed autonomy from Kosovo and Vojvodina...\nThrough out Europe communism was falling, and people were wanting changes of government.\nSlovenia first wanted indepence. Partly because it was the richest province in Yugoslavia and was sick of seeing it's money spent on poorer areas. Partly because it was wanted to be more democratic and was worried by Milosevic's pro Serb, and neo communistic tendencies....\n\nSo when Slovenia declared indepence it was impossible for Croatia not to as well... Croatia had a strong natioanlist history lead by it's leader Tudjman. And wanted to regain 1000 years of Croatian history.\nIf Slovenia and Croatia were both accepted as independent by the EU , which they were..\nIt was impossble for Bosnia to stay in Yugoslavia...\n\nBUT.. \n\nThey were many Serbs who lived in all areas of the former Yugoslavia especially Croatia and Bosnia...\nThey did not want to leave Yugoslavia, and wanted to stay with Serbia...\nThey were also scared of nationalism in Croatia because during the second world many Croats were supporter of the Ustasa who were supporters of Hitler. The ustasa had massacered many Serbs in death camps such as Jasenovic.\nSome modern Croats were sympathisers with the Ustase and some of the decisions made by Tudjman gave Serbs a reason to fear living in an Independent Croatia.....\nWhilst in Bosnia alot of nationalist propganda brought to the forefront a hate of Islam, and of the Ottoman past..\n\nThis is why the civil war happened....\nOf course now relations are much better between all countries and current politicans are trying to make ammends for the past and build a future.
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No of course, and you could think why has hashim tachi or ramus hardinaj, or some other poor smock been allowed to participate in Kosovo politic. That is the Kosovo what they want, that is the Kosovo they will get. I am trying not to think about it so much, 'cause...you know....it's hard to think of something in what you can't have an influence, it's hard to punish yourself with bad thoughts - thinking of Kosovo and their bosses. It's sad that Serbs have given them the opportunity to say what is wrong and right, and it is sad because of that negligence to call upon the sanctity of that holy place. Why it hasn't been holy before all this?
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I believe an economic calculation has been made. Unfortunately the investment made by us the Brits would not be supported by the US nor the UN. Therefore for us to send in a land force and police the country would just not be viable financially (and yes you are correct this is probably because they do not have oil).\nI believe the only reason that the US and UK went to Kosovo was because Albania was the last bastion of communism in Europe. With Zimbabwe it is just another despotic leader threatening only his people. Our specialist forces are also heavily deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and we just do not have the man-power to uphold something that would probably be seen as an ongoing problem.
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Yes I think so. \nthey suffered so much death from the serbs.\nIts not a large area and most are Albanians so I don't see what the hold up is.\nMaybe Kosovo is very rich in resources.\nIts always hard to claim rich land.
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Kosovo's future status is as uncertain as it has been since the war. It is currently a UN-protectorate and is likely to remain so for quite some time. However if the Serbs arrest and extradite Radtko Mladic, the alleged war criminal, to the Hague tribunal, the EU will invite Serbia for EU accession talks and then, ups, the case of Kosovo will have to be resolved - the EU cannot possibly live with this tense situation inside its own borders! (Even though they do so with Cypros, but that's another case)
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With the ending of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in June 2006 and the independence of Montenegro and Serbia, there are now 194 independent sovereign states in the world, plus about\n60 dependent areas, and five disputed territories. \n\nsee link for list
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They are participating under "Serbia and Montenegro" till September, after September Serbia will be a legal successor of Serbia and Montenegro. I hope they will have good luck in the World cup. By the way, only one out of 22 players is actually from Montenegro, all others are from Serbia.
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The Serbs don't take defeat very well, and that's too bad because they will have to live with it.  Montenegro was forced into the Yugoslavian enclave almost 100 years ago.  They haven't forgotten and they haven't lost their identity, they have finally gotten their just due.\n\nThe Serbs have paid dearly for their past indiscretions thanks to Milosevic.  Yet, many Serbs still look at his dead as*s as that of a national hero.  Folks, national hero's don't loose what Serbia has lost and still get accolades.  Maybe that tells the world a little bit about the Serbian mindset.\n\nMontenegro will thrive over this move, it was courageous and popular.  The world at large will protect Montenegro.  Serbia has an opportunity to show that it can still be magnanimous by supporting this decision.\n\nBoth countries can help the healing process by keeping the soccer team together!
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Serbia and Montenegro will come out on top followed by Argentina then Holland, Serbia was not scored on once in qualifying
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country maybe,not a nation..Yugoslavia
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No I do not, The UN totally destroyed the infrastructure of Serbia. There was no movement to rebuild the damage that was created by the bombing. The economy of Serbia-Montenegro was crushed and nobody stepped in to help rebuild.\n\nThe conflict in Serbia was a UN action, led by former Democratic Presidential candidate Wesley Clark.\n\nThings are going bad in Iraq, but at least we are trying to correct the mistakes we made.
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Serbian president\n\nhe is doing his best, and he is very popular in Serbia, but like Wragolan said he is cursed with Zoran Djindjic's legacy...\n\nthe problem is that he and prime minister have different views on every-day politics, so they waste waaaaay to much time trying to solve their personal disagreements while they should be doing something useful for this country... like arresting Mladic
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Nemanja Vidic for Serbia and MOntenegro