Serbia must be forced to recognize Kosovo, Ahtisaari
October 20, 2008
SERBIANNA
Nobel peace prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari claims that Serbian rejection of his plan to territorially decompose Serbia was done within the UN framework even though member states at the UN are suppose to uphold sovereignty.
"We did Kosovo within the UN framework. In Georgia there was not even an attempt,” Ahtisaari said.
Ahtisaari also said that Serbia must be forced to accept that it is decapitated and busted up territorially if it wants to join EU.
Ahtisaari says that Serbia's rejection of its own territorial break up is "poking the EU in the eye".
"You can't be poking the EU in the eye [while] saying you want to join EU,” Ahtisaari said.
Kosovo's illegal independence is up for a ruling at the World Court where legal scholars widely expect that the Court's advisory opinion will rule in favor of upholding Serbia's sovereignty.
This kind of ruling could pave the way for a lawsuit against Ahtisaari who could be held personally liable for ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Serbs and destruction of Serb heritage there because his plan failed to remedy that.
Over two thirds of Kosovo Serbs have been either murdered or expelled by Kosovo Albanian separatists to whom Ahtisaari's plan has granted "independence".
"When a society acts like the Serb [society] did, then it should bear the consequences,” Ahtisaari said.
"When a dictator in a country starts to behave badly to its citizens, this carries consequences. In this case the international community has a duty to intervene," Ahtisaari says.
During his Kosovo diplomatic mission it was alleged that Ahtisaari was a recipient of several million dollars from a wealthy Albanian businessman with questionable ties. Ahtisaari rejected claims that he accepted money in order to write a plan that seeks to territorially decompose a sovereign state that is a member of the UN. No independent investigation was ever conducted to confirm Ahtisaari denial.
Before being assigned the Kosovo case, Ahtisaari claimed that the W.W.II Finnish Nazi Waffen SS troops were merely soldiers when they joined Nazi Waffen SS formations organized by Heinrich Himmler. Ahtisaari sought to honor and commemorate these Finnish Nazi war criminals in 1999.
Kosovo Albanian separatists were Nazi allies in W.W.II.