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In The Aftermath Of The Meeting, Serbian Papers Are Reporting That 2 Countries Which Had Hitherto Been Understood To Have Recognised Kosovo, Now Say That They Did not.
The 1st major working week after the summer holidays has produced a wealth of stories here in the western Balkans. Some are way more major than others, unless you live here, when they're all deadly serious. Here's a roundup of a number of them.
Outside of the old Yugoslav Federal Parliament building in the Serbian capital they are rolling up the red carpet which had been unrolled to greet delegates to the 50th birthday hit of the Non-Aligned Movement, which I have written about here. Serbia, which hosted the gathering, isn't an affiliate, but never mind that. It finds it helpful to lobby over the Kosovo issue and for business.
In the result of the meeting, Serbian papers are reporting that 2 nations which had so far been accepted to have recognised Kosovo, now say that in fact they didn't. Oman says it just, sort of, um ah, sort of said 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 investigation has started in one African country against a senior official. He revealed :
"There are set up claims that he got a bribe from an Albanian businessman from Kosovo so as to start the process to recognise Kosovo independence. If that inquiry gives results we are expecting, 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 handy because they enable states to lobby and network. However in a stinging commentary (behind a paywall,) at Balkan Discernment Milan Misic, the Washington correspondent of the Serbian daily Politika, disagrees the entire shebang was mounted because Belgrade "needed something to raise its confidence". It was simply a show of nostalgia for all its players disagrees Mr Misic and "dwelled on the past achievements of the movement. "
At the meeting the ex-Yugoslavs all sat together. They had better be careful. Folks (especially Croatia's Nova television) are asking questions. Why Ivo (Josipovic, the president of Croatia) was spending a great deal of time with Boris (Tadic, the president of Serbia). 2 men of the same age, same background, same roles, same issues, what a scandal...
In the meantime, as some Croatian hacks were obsessing about Ivo and Boris a small Croatian paper, the Makarska Kronika, seems to have a world-beating scoop, if true for course. In Feb I wrote about the close connections between the previous Yugoslavia and Colonel Qaddafi. The press then wrote that his other half Safiya was initially Sofija Farkas, a Croat with Hungarian roots from Mostar in Hercegovina. According to the paper, Mrs Qaddafi has recently been making efforts to buy land and property in Igrane on the Croatian Adriatic coast not very 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 different celebs in assorted 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 want, I am really not sure, but , if she is actually a Bosnian Croat she has a perfect right to a Croatian passport and thus visa free travel all though Europe.
On a more sombre note, Dimitar Bechev of the Sofia office of the European Council on Foreign Relations writes about the "protracted death of democratic Albania." Debating about the political conflict that has paralysed Albania for the last 2 years he says that both Edi Rama, the leader of the opposition Socialists and Sali Berisha, the prime minister are to blame . However Mr Berisha "must take the lion's share." He's hell bent, asserts Mr Bechev, on gaining control over all the Albanian institutions which still remain beyond his grip.
Why are ordinary Albanians happy to allow such de-democratisation? One reason could be that, unlike any other former Red states, ordinary folk see in the ECU 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 broke Greece. If this is what it implies 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 crop of attacks on cars belonging to Vijesti, one of the nations main dailies. Four have been torched in the last few months. Zeljko Ivanovic, the paper's handling editor claims that the media situation in the country is awful and that the attacks are messages from people hooked up to orgainised crime which in Montenengro have consistently been thought to overlap with political interests that "they are stronger than the state" and therefore Vijesti's reporting about issues like this is purposeless. Who cares about the global economy when you can stress about media freedom in Montenegro. Watch this space, writes tagza.com.
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