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In The Result Of The Meeting, Serbian Papers Are Reporting That Two States Which Had Hitherto Been Accepted To Have Recognised Kosovo, Now Say That Actually , They Didn't.
The first serious working week after the summer vacations has already produced a wealth of stories here in the western Balkans. Some are way more significant than others, unless of course you live here, when they are all deadly serious. Here's a roundup of some of them.
Outside the old Yugoslav Federal Parliament building in the Serbian capital they are rolling up the red carpet which had been unrolled to welcome representatives to the 50th birthday bash of the Non-Aligned Movement, which I've written about here. Serbia, which hosted the gathering, is not an affiliate, but never mind that. It finds it useful to lobby over the Kosovo issue and for business.
In the aftermath of the meeting, Serbian papers are reporting that two countries which had as yet been accepted to have recognized Kosovo, now say that they did not. Oman says it just, kind of, um ah, sort of claimed it wanted Kosovo in the U. N, but that's completely different. The West African state of Guinea Bissau claims that recognition was held up in parliament.
Vuk Jeremic, Serbia's foreign minister adds that a criminal enquiry has started in one African country against a senior official. He revealed :
"There are founded suspicions that he was given a bribe from an Albanian entrepreneur from Kosovo so as to start the procedure to recognise Kosovo autonomy. If that inquiry gives results we expect, this country will also withdraw its recognition of Kosovo independence."
In the piece I wrote in this week's print edition I noted that many countries find the Non-Aligned Movement's meetings helpful because they enable countries to lobby and network. However in a stinging commentary (behind a paywall,) at Balkan Discernment Milan Misic, the Washington journalist of the Serbian daily Politika, disagrees the full shebang was mounted because Belgrade "needed something to lift its confidence". It was simply a show of nostalgia for all its partakers disagrees Mr Misic and "dwelled on the past feats of the movement. "
At the meeting the ex-Yugoslavs all sat together. They had better take care. People (particularly Croatia's Nova TV) are raising questions. Why Ivo (Josipovic, the president of Croatia) was spending so much time with Boris (Tadic, the president of Serbia). 2 men of the same age, same background, same jobs, same Problems, what a scandal...
In the meantime, as some Croatian journalists were obsessing about Ivo and Boris a small Croatian paper, the Makarska Kronika, appears to have a world-beating scoop, if true of course. In Feb I wrote about the close connections between the former Yugoslavia and Colonel Qaddafi. The press then wrote that his spouse Safiya was initially Sofija Farkas, a Croat with Hungarian roots from Mostar in Hercegovina. According to the paper, Mrs Qaddafi has just been attempting to buy land and property in Igrane on the Croatian Adriatic coast not far from Mostar.
Mrs Qaddafi and some of the family are now in Algeria. This summer the Balkan press has been full of stories of various celebs in assorted stages of inebriation or undress, from Prince Harry to Beyonc, who've been holidaying in Croatia. Whether Mrs Qaddafi fits the profile the Croats desire, I'm not sure, but , if she is actually a Bosnian Croat she has every right to a Croatian passport and hence visa free travel throughout Europe.
On a more sombre note, Dimitar Bechev of the Sofia office of the Western european Council on Foreign Relations writes about the "protracted death of democratic Albania." Debating about the political conflict which has paralysed Albania for the last two years he asserts that both Edi Rama, the leader of the opposition Socialists and Sali Berisha, the P. M. are at fault. However Mr Berisha "must take the lion's share." He's hell bent, says Mr Bechev, on gaining control over all of the Albanian institutions which still remain beyond his grip.
Why are standard Albanians happy to allow such de-democratisation? One reason might be that, unlike the other previous Commie states, ordinary folk see in the EU nothing different from Albania. To the side, across the Mediterranean, is Italy, with its unique make of game-show politics ; to the south, over the mountain ranges, lies bankrupt Greece. If this is what it suggests to be an ECU state, many Albanian baby-kissers can be excused for thinking they already live in one, or should qualify for membership."
Not quite as dramatic, but still, alarm bells have begun to ring in Montenegro too. Thomas Roser, of the Austrian daily Die Presse has written about the series of attacks on vehicles belonging to Vijesti, one of the nations main dailies. Four have been torched in the last couple of months. Zeljko Ivanovic, the paper's handling editor claims that the media situation in the country is awful and so the attacks are messages from folks attached to orgainised crime which in Montenengro have always been assumed to overlap with political interests that "they are stronger than the state" and so Vijesti's reporting about such issues is useless. Who cares about the world economy when you can worry about media freedom in Montenegro. Watch this space, writes tagza.com.
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