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GET IT OFF YOUR CHEST - Will Russian investment into Serbia help the country keep its breakaway province of Kosovo?
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- Sevodnya_Net October 18, 2007, 13:25
- Serbia wants to join to EU, but it isn't the Kosovo issue which is stopping it, although plainly there needs to be some sort of concensus there.
Serbia's accession to the EU depends on the country's cooperation with the UN tribunal into war crimes by such as Karadzic and Mladic - still on the run and a huge source of embarrassment to the Serbian authorities.
Serbia might be well advised to think twice before selling too much of itself to Gazprom, which is effectively the Russian government. Relations between Russia and Serbia might be fine just now, mainly because of the Kosovo issue, but in the future things might not be so rosy.
- Harry October 18, 2007, 12:07
- It will help Serbs become more prosperous and therefore more confident in themselves. It will also help them in resisting pressure from those who seek to equate this country's EU entry together with their acceptance of an independent Kosovo, contravening every international rules. The WEST knows the only way to make Serbia agree to an independent/renegade Kosovo is by dangling economic carrots in front of it and hopefully Russian investment COULD alleviate that concern. But we'll have to wait and watch to see how far these efforts can be successful?
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