Serbia rejects EU-brokered deal on Kosovo

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Serbia has rejected a European Union-brokered deal on normalizing ties with its breakaway province of Kosovo.

Kosovo unilaterally declared independence in 2008. While many countries recognize it as an independent country, Serbia does not.

The EU had given Serbia until Tuesday to relinquish its effective control over northern Kosovo in return for the start of EU membership talks.

Serbia must normalize relations with its neighbors before joining the EU.

Many minority ethnic Serbs in Kosovo reject the authority of the Kosovo government in Pristina.

'Regret'

Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic told reporters: "The government of Serbia cannot accept principles verbally presented to its negotiating team in Brussels, since they do not guarantee full security and protection of human rights to the Serb people in Kosovo."

Last week, an eighth round of EU-mediated talks between Serbia and Kosovo broke up without a deal on normalizing ties.

Catherine Ashton, the EU's top diplomat, said on Monday she regretted Serbia's rejection of the plan.

She said: "I believe that all the elements for an agreement on northern Kosovo are on the table. I regret the decision of the Serbian government to reject the proposals and call on them to make a last effort to reach an agreement, for the benefit of their people."

Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic called for more talks with rival ethnic Albanians leaders of Kosovo - even though Baroness Ashton said after last week's failed talks that the EU's mediation bid had ended.

"If there is a negative answer from [the EU], that would be bad news for Serbia, Kosovo and the EU," said Mr Vucic. "If that happens, we would have to start thinking of what to do next.

"We don't want Serbia isolated from the world, but we have to protect our interests. It is highly important that we reach an agreement."

Tension between Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority and remaining ethnic Serbs has led to violence in recent years, notably around customs posts in northern Kosovo.

Source: Bbc.com

What is Source of Evil?

What is Source of Evil?

In Orthodox teaching we learn that all of Creation is good.  After each step of Creation, God said that everything is "very good." (Gen 1:31)  So what is the source of evil?


Here is how Elder Paisios explained it to a pilgrim.

Evil exists when we make wrong use of the things of God granted to us for our benefit.

It is not bad for someone to have money, but it is bad to be avaricious.  Drugs are not an evil thing, when used to relieve the pain of people who suffer.  They are bad when used for a different purpose.  A knife is a useful utensil, when we use it to cut bread.  However, when it is used to hit someone, it becomes a deadly weapon.  In this case, it is not the knife which is evil, but the inner disposition of the murderer.

Therefore, we must use everything in the right way, the natural way, not abuse them and go against nature.

Since we are weak by nature, when we are inclined to give in to a passion, we should try to avoid anything that makes us feel vulnerable.  We should also be aware that the reason we avoid the causes of our passions is not because they are evil themselves; but rather, because our ill inner disposition does not permit us to use them correctly.

Since we cannot benefit from them, it is better to avoid them, so they do not harm us.  At the same time, we should glorify God for His gifts, and blame ourselves for abusing them and thus provoking the evil.

Source: http://orthodoxwayoflife.blogspot.com

“Lithuania won’t block Serbia’s EU pathway”

BELGRADE -- Lithuanian FM Linas Linkevičius told daily Večernje novosti that his country would not block Serbia’s EU accession despite “not the best of relations”.

Even if it gets a date for the start of the EU accession negotiations in June, Serbia will face an uncertain period in the integration process bearing in mind that Lithuania will take over the EU presidency in the second half of 2013, the daily writes.

Relations between Serbia and Lithuania have been tense since the election for the UN General Assembly president and unsuccessful privatization of the BIP brewery. 

Linkevičius admitted that the two countries’ relations were not at the best possible level but stressed that this should not halt Serbia’s progress in relations with Brussels. 

When asked whether Serbia would start the EU accession talks once Lithuania had taken over the EU presidency, he said: 

“We wish Serbia success. We support Euro-Atlantic integrations of all Western Balkan countries. We truly believe that this is the right direction. We will give Serbia support both bilaterally and as the EU presidency in the second half of the year. We will happy to do it.” 

When asked if Lithuania would soon ratify the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with Serbia, Linkevičius said that process was “underway”. 

“Our government has already given its consent. It is parliament’s turn now. I have spoken personally with leaders in parliament and they are planning on putting the issue on the agenda in accordance with the rules of procedure. They are not planning on artificially stopping the process,” he explained. 

When asked if he believed in true normalization of relations between Belgrade and Priština, he said that everybody was optimistic but that it was really hard. 

“I have visited the region many times and I know really well what the reality is like. And this should be taken into account. But I think it is time to solve the problem,” the Lithuanian FM said. 

When asked if Kosovo Serbs could at least get autonomy, he said that he was not in a position to say.

“Autonomy in principle is an issue of countries’ internal integrity and I think it is not a topic that should be solved at this meeting, among EU foreign ministers, or at any other forum. I would not speculate on it,” Linkevičius stressed. 

When asked whether he believed Serbia should recognize Kosovo’s independence, he said that it depended on Serbia. However, the Lithuanian minister said that it would be best if Serbia recognized it if it was a condition for the EU membership. 

“I said it would be better, not that a decision not to recognize it would be a definitive obstacle to the membership,” he told the daily, noting that it was his personal opinion.

Source: b92.net

“Ethnic Albanians want to expel Serbs from Kosovo”

This is according to Department of External Church Relations the Patriarchate of Moscow Chairman Hilarion Alfeyev.

Hilarion told Tanjug on Saturday that he had visited Kosovo on two occasions and "saw with his own 

eyes how the local Serbs' daily routine looks like."

"The Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija live in an unpredictable and very hostile environment, in constant threat of robbery and beating, in the fear of losing their connection with central Serbia," the metropolitan said.

“In ancient monasteries the Serbs pray behind barbed wire and the few monks spend their lives as prisoners, under the protection of armed foreigners," he added.

The metropolitan qualified as disturbing the recently announced intent of the management of the Kosovo university in Priština to either bring down or turn into a Kosovo Albanian museum the Church of Christ the Savior, which is located on its territory.

"Attempts to take away a centuries-long history from the Serbian people and to suppress their historical memory do not stop," Hilarion stressed.

“Many churches in Kosovo have been desecrated by vandals or completely ruined,” he said and added that he was happy that the Theological School in Prizren was reopened. The Russian Orthodox Church assisted in the restoration of this school with EUR 200,000.

“With the blessing of Patriarch Kirill, monasteries across Russia have begun fundraising to help churches and monasteries and soup kitchens in Kosovo and Metohija,” Hilarion announced.

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Kosovo Albanian terrorists fighting alongside Syria rebels

Kosovo Albanians connected to the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) are reportedly fighting alongside the Syrian rebels against the regime of President Assad.

The advent of Kosovo Albanians fighting in Syria follows Syrian rebels being trained at terror camps in Kosovo. The KLA were described by Robert Gelbard, President Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Balkans, as "without any questions, a terrorist group."

In 1998 the U.S. State Department listed the KLA as a terrorist organization, funded by Islamic countries. Al Qaeda members were known to have trained in Kosovo terror camps.

NSNBC reported the Albanian mafia, involved in drug and arms smuggling, and the sale of body parts, worked alongside Islamic terrorists. Thus the connections are in place for Kosovo Albanians to connect with Islamic terrorists that place the assassination of Assad on their agenda.

Proto Thema reported at least two groups of Albanian fighters are now active in Syria. According to Storm Front the killing of Syrian civilians, blamed on the Assad regime, replicate tactics used by the Kosovo Albanians in Serbia. Tactics include sending the opposition to kill uniformed forces then take their uniforms, commit a civilian massacre, leaving witnesses alive to testify to western media that the security forces committed the barbaric slaughter.

Reports of Albanian terrorists fighting alongside the Syrian opposition, are corroborated by the report of the death of Albanian Naman Demoli, former member of the KLA, in Syria. Demoli was a leading Kosovan activist advocating that Pristina build a large Wahhabi mosque.

The inclusion of KLA fighters in Syria raises further questions about western support for the Syrian opposition and the potential arming of international terrorists.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/336919#ixzz2COi4E8vX

Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Taci owns SLAVES

Slaves!! Yes Hashim Taci owns 52 slaves in his harem.  Called  "World's hell hole" by a Ukrainian lady that escaped his control.  "None of the girls were from Kosovo, there were few from the Balkans, about ten from Russia, one from Cameroon, two Chinese women etc" stated the Ukrainian.  The harem was at the intersection of  Shaip Spahija and Bedri Shala in Pristina/Prishtina.    According to her, the building has several VIP areas where Thaci and his friends have orgys.  Many of them are foreign diplomats, including officers from EULEX and KFOR.

Hashim Taci, when he was part of UCK Albanian Terrorist Organization

Hashim Taci on the top right

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/22202/50/

Uranium a danger to Kosovo survivors

In the villages of Klina and Kijevo was where the most blood was spilled in Kosovo during the 1990's war.  Today those areas are contaminated with uranium from the war, which is why the cases or Leukemia are at an all time high, in the region.  The Uranium contamination is a result of the NATO bombing and aggression that took many lives then and is to this day.

Klina
 

Albanian aggression in Kosovo

As the Albanians say the Serbs are the aggressors, that is not true in all cases.  Now in days Serbian people are being discriminated heavily by Ethnic Albanians. Kosovo is part of Serbia and will always be.  Albanians think they can take whatever they want but they can't without a fight!