Eagleburger: Seizing Kosovo from Serbia is worrying
Former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger has expressed worry about the intention of Washington to seize Kosovo from Serbia and proclaiming it an independent state.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, January 08, 2008
"I think it is not something we want to establish as tradition. There are very good reasons to oppose international aims to separate Kosovo from Serbia," Eargleburger said.
"According to that practice, the international community would give itself the right to order, or put pressure toward stripping nominal hosts of a certain territory and taking away their sovereignty over that certain territory," he said.
Meanwhile, former EU ambassador to Belgrade Albert Maes has said that the Kosovo is neither politically nor economically ready to become a state.
Maes said that "unemployment in the province hovers between 40 and 50 percent," and that the population was living off "the money and gifts sent by relatives living abroad."
He also said that Kosovo "definitely will not function" as an independent state "if there is no cooperation in the region, because all countries of the Western Balkans depend on one another, both economically and politically, primarily due to ethnic minorities."
