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Old June 30th, 2008 #11
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Vatican not to recognize Kosovo
June 27, 2008

Vatican will not recognize Kosovo as an independent state in any near future confirmed Cardinal Walter Casper during his official visit to Russia.

"At this moment, the Holy See has not recognized Kosovo as an independent state and does not plan to do so in the near future," Casper said.

Casper was also expressed concern for the destruction of Christian holy shrines that is done by the Muslim Albanian separatists in Kosovo.

"And if we were to speak of desecration of Christian sacred places and monuments in Kosovo, this bears witness to severe intolerance between two religious communities," Casper said.



Cardinal Walter Casper

Casper was on an official visit to Russia to discuss relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. Russia is overwhelmingly Orthodox.

"We also understand, that Kosovo is the cradle of the Serbian Orthodox Church," said Casper. "We understand the concern, which was expressed by Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church in relation to the Kosovo problem."

Kosovo is a Serbian province that was violently seized by NATO forces in 1999 for the benefit of the Albanian Islamic separatists in the province who then went on to violently expel Christian Serbs and destroy churches across the province while NATO troops did nothing to stop that. Reports have recently surfaced that the top echelons of the Muslim Albanian separatists have been implicated in abduction of Kosovo Serbs so they could be, after being killed, cut up in order to sell the organs.

"Our position is such, that any ethnic minority has the right to distinctive social, religious and cultural identity, including Kosovo Albanians and the Kosovo Serb minority, living today on the territory of Kosovo. The latter is severely limited in its realization of these rights," Casper said.

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Kosovo Serbs convene parliament
By Branislav Krstic

MITROVICA, June 28 (Reuters) - Serbs in Kosovo were due to convene their own parliament in the divided city of Mitrovica on Saturday in a fresh challenge to the authority of a state that only a vast minority of states in the world recognize as independent.

Only few countries have recognized Kosovo as an independent state while vast majority of the world refuses to recognize its illegal status.

The assembly has no executive authority, but reflects a deepening ethnic partition of Kosovo since its Albanian majority declared independence from Serbia in February, backed by the West but opposed by Belgrade and its ally Russia.

Its establishment coincides with St Vitus Day, or Vidovdan, when Serbs mark the 1389 battle at the heart of Kosovo which is their Jerusalem. The epic defeat to the Islamic forces of Ottoman Turks remains the pivotal event in Serb history.

After decades of ethnic cleansing of Serbs, today ninety percent of Kosovo's 2 million people are Albanians. Their declaration of independence after nine years as a ward of the United Nations is a challenge to the international order, very charter of the United Nations, constitution of Serbia and numerous international treaties since the 19th century that define Kosovo as an integral part of Serbian territory.

It is only a handful of Kosovo's Albanian Islamic extremists implicated in human traffic, drug dealing and other vice that are being supported by western countries in their desire to become an independent state.

NATO troops, including British reinforcements brought in at the end of May, manned checkpoints in armoured personnel carriers on roads leading to the capital, Pristina.

Hundreds of Serb attended a religious service in the monastery town of Gracanica, and will travel north past Pristina to the site of 1389 battle later in the day, before the parliament sits in Mitrovica.

The assembly brings together local Serb officials from across Kosovo. It has no real executive authority, but will help "coordination" between Belgrade and the Serbs, officials say.

Kosovo's U.N. governor, Lamberto Zannier, has played down its significance, saying the assembly is merely "symbolic" and would change little on the ground. A U.N. spokesman said it was "not very serious" since it had no operational role.

But Kosovo Albanian leaders have condemned the move as a provocation. "It is an attempt to destabilise Kosovo," the so-called Islamic president of the separatists Fatmir Sejdiu said this week.

The north, which backs onto Serbia, is beyond the institutional reach of Pristina and currently out of bounds for a new European Union police mission looking to take over law and order duties from the United Nations.

Serbs have rejected Kosovo's secession. They are boycotting the police force and courts, and in February burned down customs points on the northern border with Serbia.

Kosovo has been recognised by 43 states, including the United States and most of the European Union. Russia backs Serbia in its rejection of independence as do over hundred other states in the world.
(Additional reporting by Fatos Bytyci and Matt Robinson; writing by Matt Robinson, editing by Mary Gabriel)

Contextual and factual corrective editing by MVK
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