By Matt RobinsonSat Mar 10, 9:38 AM ET
Serbia called on the United Nations on Saturday to reject a Western-backed proposal for the independence of Kosovo as Serbs and Albanians ended a year of talks on the fate of the breakaway province.
President Boris Tadic made the appeal in Vienna at a final meeting between leaders of Serbia and Kosovo's 90-percent Albanian majority before the plan drafted by U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari goes to the Security Council.
In a copy of his speech distributed to media, Tadic said he expected "serious debate" at the U.N. Security Council.
"If Ahtisaari's proposal was to be accepted, it would be the first time in contemporary history that territory would be taken away from a democratic, peaceful country in order to satisfy the aspirations of a particular ethnic group that already has its nation-state," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070310/wl_nm/serbia_kosovo1_dc_2
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Before there was Iraq II (its own little piece of history), there were the conflicts in the countries of the "ex-Yugoslavia." Now Kosovo is exploding again, and it seems as if all the media and the pundits can do is rehash the old stories while new bodies pile up. Here is a place where we will attempt to give you a sense of the bigger picture.
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