Kosovo Crisis Can Spread to West

May 30, 2007 (LPAC)--Pressure by the United States and Europe to force a UN resolution for the independence of Kosovo is leading to heightened ungovernability in the Balkan region which can easily spread beyond.

Serbian President Boris Tadic warned yesterday in an interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera , that granting of Kosovo independence will undermine international law and ultimately western stability. His remarks come at a point when all the governments of both western and eastern Europe are in crisis, bordering on ungovernability, and the Cheney policy of confrontation with Russia heightens instability.

Kosovo is formerly a part of Yugoslovia, with an ethnic Albanian majority and a large Serb minority. Interethnic tensions have been exacerbated since the breakup of Yugoslavia and the complete failure of the West to engage in economic development programs, preferring looting instead.

The U.S. and European Union have recently put major pressure on members of the U.N. Security Council to endorse a resolution in which Kosovo would become an independent state under European Union supervision.

Following a meeting in Rome with Italian Prime Minister Prodi yesterday, Tadic declared that "Serbia does not consider as acceptable any form of independence of Kosovo... I told Prodi and [Italian Foreign Minister] D'Alema that Serbia is ready to sit at the negotiating table to find a solution that is acceptable to both parties, and to find an integration of Serbia in the EU," Tadic said.