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In The Aftermath Of The Meeting, Serbian Papers Are Reporting That 2 Nations Which Had As Yet Been Accepted To Have Recognised Kosovo, Now Say That They Did not.
The 1st serious working week after the summer holidays has already produced a cornucopia of stories here in the western Balkans. Some are more major than others, unless you live here, when they're all serious. Here is a roundup of a few 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 greet representatives to the 50th birthday bash of the Non-Aligned Movement, which I wrote 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 result of the meeting, Serbian papers are reporting that two nations which had so far been understood to have recognised Kosovo, now say that in fact they did not. Oman says it just, sort of, um ah, kind of claimed it wanted Kosovo in the U. N, but that is 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 announced :
"There are set up claims that he was given a bribe from an Albanian entrepreneur from Kosovo in order to start the procedure to recognize Kosovo autonomy. If that investigation gives results we predict, 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 nations find the Non-Aligned Movement's conferences handy because they enable nations to lobby and network. However in a stinging commentary (behind a paywall,) at Balkan Understanding Milan Misic, the Washington journalist of the Serbian daily Politika, argues that the whole shebang was mounted because Belgrade "needed something to lift its confidence". It was just a show of nostalgia for all its players argues Mr Misic and "dwelled on the past achievements of the movement. "
At the meeting the ex-Yugoslavs all sat together. They had better be cautious. Folk (especially Croatia's Nova television) are asking questions. Why Ivo (Josipovic, the president of Croatia) was spending a lot of time with Boris (Tadic, the president of Serbia). 2 men of the same age, same background, same roles, same Problems, what a scandal...
Meanwhile, as some Croatian correspondents were obsessing about Ivo and Boris a little Croatian paper, the Makarska Kronika, seems to have a world-beating scoop, if true for course. In February I wrote about the close connections between the previous Yugoslavia and Colonel Qaddafi. The press then wrote that his wife Safiya was initially Sofija Farkas, a Croat with Hungarian roots from Mostar in Hercegovina. According to the paper, Mrs Qaddafi has just lately been making efforts to buy land and property in Igrane on the Croatian Adriatic coast not far away from Mostar.
Mrs Qaddafi and some of the family are now in Algeria. This summer the Balkan press has been full of stories of different celebs in various stages of inebriation or undress, from Prince Harry to Beyonc, who've been taking a holiday in Croatia. Whether Mrs Qaddafi fits the profile the Croats need, I am not sure, but , if she is truly a Bosnian Croat she has every right to a Croatian passport and thus visa free travel all though Europe.
On a rather more sombre note, Dimitar Bechev of the Sofia office of the EU Council on Foreign Relations writes about the "protracted death of democratic Albania." Talking about the political conflict that has paralysed Albania for the last two years he is saying that both Edi Rama, the leader of the opposition Socialists and Sali Berisha, the PM are at fault. However Mr Berisha "must take the lion's share." He is hell bent, announces Mr Bechev, on gaining control of all of the Albanian establishments which still remain beyond his grip.
Why are standard Albanians willing to permit such de-democratisation? One reason could be that, unlike the other former 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 implies to be an ECU state, many Albanian politicians can be excused for thinking they already live in one, or should qualify for membership."
Not quite so dramatic, but still, alarm bells have begun to ring in Montenegro too. Thomas Roser, of the Austrian daily Die Presse has written about the crop of attacks on autos belonging to Vijesti, one of the states main dailies. Four have been torched in the last few months. Zeljko Ivanovic, the paper's managing editor claims that the media situation in the country is appalling and so the attacks are messages from folk connected to orgainised crime which in Montenengro have invariably been believed to overlap with political interests that "they are stronger than the state" and thus Vijesti's reporting about issues like this is purposeless. 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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