If Kosovo became independent would Serbia and Kosovo ever be able to have good diplomatic relations?
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OK let me answer your questions one by one.\n\n1. I don't think Serbia will be the biggest traiding partner. Why not? After all what happened in that region, we don't trust serbs. (that's the general opinion of kosovar albanians).\n\n2. Minority rights will be protected. It's been quite a while since last incident between albanians and serbs. With time people will forget and go on with their lives.\n\n3. I think no one will prevent serbs from going to their churches.\n\n4. Well...It'll take time until people forget what happened. It was a dirty war. Thousands of inocent people were killed, children, women. I think years will pass and poeple will not forget what happened, but as they say "Time heals everything". \nYou said serbs and albanians had no problems a 100 years ago? well serbs have had no problems with slovens, croats and bosnians a 100 years ago neither but they did have a problem now. Remember, always you will have a problem when you repress people, when you take their rights away.\n\n5. Yes, serbia and croatia have managed to improve their relations. Eventually kosovar albanians and serbs will improve their relations too in about 10 years from now.\n\nTo wrap it up....The future of Kosovo's status will be known soon. I think that's a big help for both nations, serbs and albanians, because we will know where we stand. \nI'm optimistic that the relations will improve and hopefully things will get better in both sides.\n-----------------------------------------------\n\nTo the person who answered below:\n\nif serbia has nothing to import from kosovo, why all the trouble to keep it then? do you really think that serbia government cares for some religious objects? do you know that kosovo has the largest coal deposits in balkans and third in europe? it has coal enough to supply the whole region for at least 13 centuries. do you know that kosovo has the largest lead deposits in europe, not to mention iron, zync, chrome and copper. etc etc
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JO! JO!\n\nPresovo is ethnically more Albanian, but then so is Tetova.\nNovi Pazar has bosnians.. It should be  Bosnian?  Vojvodina, Hungarian?   In Stara Pasova they are Slovaks. Should it be Slovakia? There is even no boarder.\nIn Bradford, England there is more Pakistanis. Should then belong to Pakistan???\n Do you think that Tetova should be Albanian not Macedonian??  Actually I bet you do!\n\nMitrovica is Serbian whould you be happy if when Kosovo's final status was settled it would stay in Serbia???\n\nALL nation states has many different ethnic groups within their boarders. People emigrate, populations mix, sometimes there are pockets of one ethnic group. What is the problem?\nIt is possible to live in a country and hove 2 identies look at America. They have Chinese American, Italian Americans, African American  etc  and yet they are American.\n\n\n  It would be difficult for Kosovo to stay in Serbia - though I don't like to admit that-  But Presovo is a different case. They weren't the abuses that happened in kosovo province. The local province doesn't feel the need for independence. And am absolutely sure the international comunity is against it. How many problems would that cause for Macedonia. It would make the whole Balkans in war again, when they is peace. I would hope that even an Albanian nationalist wouldn't want that.\nThe Serbian govnerment is trying very hard to help the albanian in that area with financial packages, and education packages. They is not abuse of human rights. Serbia govnerment is working with international bodies and local Albainians to stop discrimnation. Couldn't Albanians try to live in Serbia if all rights were respected. It doesn't stop them losing their identity. You are asking Serbs to live under Albanian rule in Kosovo, so you cant have it both ways. If you can only live with Albanians they can always move to Albania or Kosovo.\n\nKosovo Albanians should accept where the border is. And then maybe Serbs will accept that Kosovo will be independant. But Both nations should respect each other minorities.  I can tell you one thing Albanians in Serbia, are treated much better then Serbian in Kosovo.\nThere, a Serbian is not safe without a armed guard. Albanians have no problem walking the streets of Beograd.\n\nI think you must learn to live with Serbs, because if you were independant Serbia would be your biggest trading country, and you would still be neighbour! Important part of kosovo's history was Serbian, and you should be proud of all aspects of your heritage. When that happens Kosovo will be a nation.\nPEACE
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Eeee Bila Jednom...\nToo bad because doesn't exist anymore.\nFor sure it was better under DRUG TITO than any other president.\nHe did impossible thing who can keep so many ethnic group and so many religion at one terrtory and to every1 be hppy and satisfied.\nand about future who knows, you will never know what will happen in Balkan tomorrow, for 1 year, for 10 years?\nFuture of Balkan is unpredictable.\nAnyway it was the greatest country ever.
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Yes, it was.  But Yugoslavia as a state no longer exists.  It is now several different countries.
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No.  The best description of "Yugoslavia" is "That part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire which did not speak either German or Hungarian".  In other words, everything else, which was a group of Slavic languages and a bit of Albanian.\n\nEDIT:  Skb, how can you disagree with me?  You said EXACTLY the same thing I did, "Yugoslavia never had a common language, it was a pot of several different languages".  LOL.  I guess you never heard of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and don't know the history of the region before and just after World War I, so in that case, you may not understand my comment on the matter.
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because they want to make friendship with some countries and it's good for their independence.
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Clinton involved the US because Serbian forces were systematically slaughtering people in Kosovo, mostly men, but also raping women, killing children, and other atrocities, and forcing hundreds of thousands of refugees to the borders of other Balkan countries.\n\n1.  Mostly yes.  No one really liked Milosevic\n\n2.  Mostly yes, though no UN resolution was passed.  NATO went in unilaterally.\n\n3.  Russia was mostly in favor, especially after we sent them a bunch of grain to help win their affections.  China wasn't too thrilled when one of our missiles hit their embassy, but we eventually smoothed that over too.
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Not a chance. Look at that country's history. They're need the threat of nuclear weapons as a bargaining chip so they can continue to squelch human rights.
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SERBIA WILL WIN IT ALL
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The Serbs don't take defeat very well, and that's too bad because they will have to live with it.  Montenegro was forced into the Yugoslavian enclave almost 100 years ago.  They haven't forgotten and they haven't lost their identity, they have finally gotten their just due.\n\nThe Serbs have paid dearly for their past indiscretions thanks to Milosevic.  Yet, many Serbs still look at his dead as*s as that of a national hero.  Folks, national hero's don't loose what Serbia has lost and still get accolades.  Maybe that tells the world a little bit about the Serbian mindset.\n\nMontenegro will thrive over this move, it was courageous and popular.  The world at large will protect Montenegro.  Serbia has an opportunity to show that it can still be magnanimous by supporting this decision.\n\nBoth countries can help the healing process by keeping the soccer team together!
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Serbia & Montenegro has started playing good football.
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO!!!!!
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I believe an economic calculation has been made. Unfortunately the investment made by us the Brits would not be supported by the US nor the UN. Therefore for us to send in a land force and police the country would just not be viable financially (and yes you are correct this is probably because they do not have oil).\nI believe the only reason that the US and UK went to Kosovo was because Albania was the last bastion of communism in Europe. With Zimbabwe it is just another despotic leader threatening only his people. Our specialist forces are also heavily deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and we just do not have the man-power to uphold something that would probably be seen as an ongoing problem.
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Go to the closest Embassy of Serbia and Montenegro (or it is still called Embassy of SFRJ?), or visit http://www.mfa.gov.yu/index.html where you can find all about the possibilities and conditions for foreigners. \n\nGood Luck!
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No of course, and you could think why has hashim tachi or ramus hardinaj, or some other poor smock been allowed to participate in Kosovo politic. That is the Kosovo what they want, that is the Kosovo they will get. I am trying not to think about it so much, 'cause...you know....it's hard to think of something in what you can't have an influence, it's hard to punish yourself with bad thoughts - thinking of Kosovo and their bosses. It's sad that Serbs have given them the opportunity to say what is wrong and right, and it is sad because of that negligence to call upon the sanctity of that holy place. Why it hasn't been holy before all this?
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International relations mean how one country relates to another.  Is country A getting along with country B?  If yes, they have good international relations.
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so all the countries could come together and be more united. that equals peace