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Helsinki Charter No. 103-104

January - February 2007

 

Editorial

KOSOVO FINALS

By Sonja Biserko

Resolution of Kosovo issue has entered its final stage. Ahttisaari's proposal is on the table of both Albanians and Serbs. As regards the foregoing it is noticeable that Belgrade is evidently unaware of the fact that Kosovo issue is one of the high-priority international issues, for that issue, like those recent issues in Bosnia and Croatia, defines new rules and principles. Moreover those issues rely on the existing principles of the UN...   More >>>

 

THE END OF NATIONAL ARROGANCE

By Dubravka Stojanovic

In the past weeks, particularly since Marrti Ahtisaari presented his plan, we are witnessing the most incredible statements by Serbian officials dealing with the future status of Kosovo. Be they "imaginative" or "threatening" all those statements have a common denominator: the wording that prepares the Serbian public for non-acceptance of the international community's decision. And once again, like in the past, all those statements are referring to an imaginary Kosovo only. No one...    More >>>

 

Kosovo Finals

THE REALITIES WE DESPISE

By Bojan Al Pinto Brkic

The wise leadership's initiative to have the final round of consultations on the future status of Kosovo postponed for ten days has been accepted. Unfortunately, other initiatives by the wise leadership have not been accepted although prepared with the same dose of seriousness and self-sacrifice. The official Belgrade almost unanimously assesses that the international community will once again realize its mistakes...   More >>>

 

Kosovo Finals

WHO RAPES SERBIA INDEED?

By Ivan Torov

Oh, how agitated the advocates and interpreters of "our" repeated NO turned when Maarti Ahtisaari, "laconically and so typical of him," said "Serbs and Albanians could negotiate on Kosovo for hundred years without reaching any single agreement!" They even deployed the heaviest ideological, media and patriotic artillery that was so abundantly used in "the Golden Age of our struggle for liberation in 1990s."...   More >>>

 

Post-Electoral Mirror

IT ALL DEPENDS ON WOMEN

By Slobodanka Ast

The past elections, the percentage of women in the republican parliament and their actual engagement in political life just mirror the overall situation in Serbia, her patriarchal political culture and lagging behind today's civilization. Neglected, let down and deceived.This was how the great majority of the media summed up women's score in the parliamentary elections this year. Statistically speaking, the newly constituted National...   More >>>

 

Army and State

WHAT ARE PARTISANS FOR?

By Stipe Sikavica

In ex-Yugoslavia the army was also marking its "days," i.e. holidays, but that matters no longer today. Why is it so? It matters not, they say, because that was not a Serbian but some alien, that is a Yugoslav army. Well, it makes no difference that this foreign army included "representatives of all our peoples and nationalities" rather than just Serbs and Montenegrins (i.e. Serbs from Montenegro...   More >>>

 

Kosovo Finals

MICKEY MOUSE IN PRISHTINA

By Teofil Pancic

Serbia in early 2007: the more serious situation becomes the less sense "a serious discourse" makes. How can that be possible? Well, it is. See, all major actors at domestic political scene are making gloomy faces and pompously crying at the top of their lungs. But if you take a closer look, you'll see those people are staging some vaudeville or operetta rather than taking...   More >>>

 

BETWEEN STATUS AND EVERYDAY LIFE

By Velimir Curgus Kazimir

In Serbia, Kosovo is constantly the print media's hot topic. The same refers to the broadcast media. The only difference is that the latter talk about it, rather than write. The monthly average of 600 stories dealing with Kosovo spirals when it comes to the issue of status. Future plans or plans for development are not the topics that capture the attention of reporters or their readership. Only some 10 percent of newspaper...   More >>>

 

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