[ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH «ALBEUROPA»} NEWS: Kosovo is Europe's Biggest Problem, Kostunica Claims (AFP, Nov 25, 2000)

[Wolfgang Plarre]

http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=224138&section=Kosovo

Kosovo is Europe's Biggest Problem, Kostunica Claims

ZAGREB, Nov 25, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) The situation in Kosovo
is the "biggest problem in Europe" which could spark more conflicts in
the Balkans and beyond, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica warned
participants at the EU-Balkan summit here Friday.
     "Kosovo today is certainly the biggest problem in Europe, which
could provoke many other conflicts that seem to have been put out, in
the Balkans and elsewhere," he declared.
     A fresh outbreak of violence in Kosovo and southern Serbia which
has claimed the lives of several people in recent days cast a pall over
the summit in the Croatian capital which brought together leaders from
the European Union, former Yugoslav states and Albania in a bid to boost
regional cooperation.
     "Kosovo is the only region where terror still reigns and the exodus
of people from their ancestral homeland continues," said Kostunica,
referring to violence against the ethnic Serbian minority by Kosovo's
Albanian majority.
     UN Security Council resolution 1244 on Kosovo "remains a dead
letter which cannot achieve what it must: the preservation of a
multi-ethnic Kosovo and creating secure conditions for all" in the
province, he declared.
     "Without complete respect for this resolution, then we won't have
peace in Kosovo, the Balkans or Europe" said Kostunica.
     But he emphasized that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia -- made
up of Serbia and Montenegro -- and other Balkan countries "shouldn't
wait for the resolution of the Kosovo problem to begin reinforcing their
cooperation."
     Kostunica hailed the Zagreb summit as the "most important political
gathering in the Balkans in a decade." 

((c) 2000 Agence France Presse)


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