Kosovo Quotes - Page 3

• Just take Kosovo: back then, UN bodies decided that Kosovo should become independent of Serbia and that the interests of Serbia's central government had to be subordinated. You can read that in all the records, also in the German ones.

  Vladimir Putin

  Independent, Government, Body

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• How was Kosovo recognized? They forgot about the territorial integrity of a state, as well as UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which they had themselves adopted and supported. Why could it have been done there, but not in Abkhazia and South Ossetia? Why not?

  Vladimir Putin

  Integrity, Done, Why Not

  Source: russialist.org

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• After the unlawful decision to recognize Kosovo, everyone expected Russia to respond by recognizing the independence and sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This is true, this is how it was. Everyone was waiting for Russia's decision. And we had the moral right to make it but we did not. We were more than restrained. I don't even want to comment on it. In truth, we "swallowed" it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Decision, Waiting

  Source: russialist.org

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• However, the Kosovo War took place in orbital space. In other words, war now takes place in 'aero-electro-magnetic space'. It is equivalent to the birth of a new type of flotilla, a home fleet, of a new type of naval power, but in orbital space!

  Paul Virilio

  War, Home, Space

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.

  Fatos Nano

  War, Fighting, Cutting

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• We continue to receive reports that the morale of some elements is being damaged, .. They are being affected by the impunity with which NATO aircraft can operate over Kosovo and Serbia, the accuracy and the growing knowledge.. of deployed locations. In summary, NATO has eroded the capability of Milosevic's war machine and it is being further reduced as each day goes by.

  John Day

  War, Growing Knowledge, Elements

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• I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go find some mothers on the streets of San Raphael and give them tens and twenties and mail off another $50 to Doctors Without Borders to use for the refugees in Kosovo. Because I know that giving is the way we can feel abundant. Giving is the way that we fill ourselves up.... For me the way to fill up is through service and sharing and getting myself to give more than I feel comfortable giving.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Doctors, Giving

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• I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.

  Emma Bonino

  Responsibility, Support, Groups

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• The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.

  Emma Bonino

  Should Have, Different, Purpose

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• The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.

  Emma Bonino

  Independence, Minorities, Movement

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• Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

  Fatos Nano

  Europe, Switzerland, Germany

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• Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia.

  Josip Broz Tito

  Yugoslavia, Problem, Confronting

  "Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War". Book by Julie Mertus, August 9, 1999.

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• While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Investing Money, Office, Branches

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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• Kosovo is not a part of Serbia. It is the very heart of Serbia.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Heart, Serbia

  Interview with the President of Serbia-Montenegro Mr. Svetozar Marovic, November-December 2006.

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• A final and long-lasting solution to the Kosovo issue cannot be achieved without an agreement with Serbia, especially in regard to the U.N.

  Ivica Dacic

  Agreement, Issues, Long

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• But anyone who believes that the eternal issue of war and peace in Europe has been permanently laid to rest could be making a monumental error. The demons haven't been banished; they are merely sleeping, as the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo have shown us.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  War, Believe, Sleep

  "The Demons Haven't Been Banished". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. March 11, 2013.

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• In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

  Noam Chomsky

  Blow, Order, Violence

  "Now it's a free for all". www.theguardian.com. May 16, 1999.

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• The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians

  Boris Yeltsin

  Important, Tables, Negotiating

  "Serb's Promises Are Just a First Step, U.S. Says" by Steven Erlanger, www.nytimes.com. June 17, 1998.

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• Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style

  Jurgen Habermas

  Art, War, Technology

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• Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving 'automated war' and 'war-at-a-distance' is also terribly weak in the face of terrorism. For instance, in such situations, any individual who decides to place or throw a bomb can simply walk away. He or she has the freedom to move. This also applies to militant political groups and their actions.

  Paul Virilio

  Distance, War, Moving

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The research on vision machines was mainly conducted at the Stanford Research Institute in the US. So, we can say that the events that took place in the Kosovo War were a total confirmation of the thesis of The Vision Machine.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Vision, Events

  Source: ctheory.net

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