Obama a new icon of Pristina's Americanophilia
After naming major city arteries after former US presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Kosovo's capital Pristina is now innundated with posters and billboards congratulating Barrack Obama.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, January 23, 2009
The billboards were put up by the marketing company Europlakat, who said they were financing the entire cost themselves.
Similar displays of public compassion occur regularly in post-war Kosovo, most notably when thanking Western powers for their support of Kosovo's bid for independence, following terror attacks in New York and London or when marking anniversaries of the US-led military intervention against Serbia.
Kosovo Albanians, the most pro-American ethnic group in Europe, are confident that US foreign policy toward Kosovo will not change, as Obama had shown his support for Kosovo's independence both with statements and by the choice of his team, which includes Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, fierces advocates of the 1999 bombing of Serbia.
A spokesperson for the municipality of Pristina declared he wasn't ruling out the possibility that a street could be named after Obama. Hillary Clinton, however, can already boast of having a fashion boutique and a "disco-bar pastry shop" named after her.
