Secessão

PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro: Kosovo will accept international "observation" or advice after United Nations mediation on its fate, but the West can no longer place conditions on its independence from Serbia, the province’s ethnic Albanian prime minister says. (...)
He said he expected an international "observation or advisory" mission after talks as "a psychological and practical guarantee for ethnic groups that their rights are observed." "But Kosovo must be an independent and sovereign state."

(...) Diplomats say the West, though publicly refusing to back any particular solution, is preparing to push for "conditional independence" in talks that could last until spring next year. Serbia says independence is impossible, conditional or not. Serbs say Kosovo, home to scores of centuries-old Orthodox religious sites, is sacred land. A clue to the diplomatic minefield ahead was Belgrade’s cancellation last week of a visit by the Slovenian president after he backed independence for Kosovo. (...) Three months of Nato bombing that year forced Serbia’s then leader Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his forces, accused of ethnic cleansing in a war with separatist guerrillas"

PS: Sendo a reivindicação de Secessão algo com que todos os Estados se vão deparar com crescente frequência (reacção previsivel ao paradigma do centralismo democrático e uma consequência do custo económico/outros de tal decisão ser cada vez mais baixo...não que não possa levantar questões de enorme complexidade), é escusado é ter um empurrão da NATO. Tiro no pé?