UN and Multi-Lateralism

Annie

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Sorry NatoAir, I don't write these:

http://www.thehill.com/news/070604/serbia.aspx

PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro — Five years into an indefinite mandate, the United Nations’ occupation of Kosovo — backed by the boots of NATO peacekeepers — is rapidly losing support among both Kosovar Albanians and ethnic Serbs.

The U.N. attempt to midwife a democratic nation here in the rump of the former Yugoslavia and NATO’s fractured and inconsistent response to ongoing ethnic violence offer a cautionary tale of nation-building elsewhere on the globe, especially Iraq, say seasoned diplomats, local journalists and aid workers in Pristina, Mitrovicia and Belgrade.

Some analysts also worry that the eruption of violence in mid-March, which left 35 Orthodox monasteries in ruin, claimed 19 lives and forced an estimated 4,000 Serbs from their homes, is but the first act of a simmering Muslim Albanian insurgency that will target the international community, including U.N. officials, the next time it explodes.

But diplomats and aid workers in this quasi-capital of a quasi-state caution that comparisons between Iraq and Kosovo, while apt in many ways, should not be overwrought, especially because the American contingent of NATO’s 18,000-strong force remains overwhelmingly popular with the local population. Most of the Kosovar Albanians’ ire is directed toward the U.N. administrative body, UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo), which has a $200 million annual budget for civilian and operational costs.....
 
i agree... its been botched for the past 5 years, mainly by incompetence and misguided, misinformed decisions...

at least the american soldiers are still popular :)


it can still be salvaged, they just need to be able to admit they were wrong and change their development/democracy strategies.
 

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