The international mediation - the kosovo case - marti ahtisaari negotiation
Concept paper
Topic: International Mediation – The Kosovo Case – Marti Ahtisaari Negotiation
Author Tutor
Flintoaca - Marinescu Angelica Helena Sara Barbieri
ROMANIA
Connected Prof: Dusan Janjic
Connected Lectures: Serbia. Kosovo and the EU. Readjusting Policies and Institutions from the Perspective of Inclusion
Nation State, Diversity and Self-Determination; Stimulation of a UN Security Council Discussion
September 2008
Foreword
In 1999 I visited Serbia on the occasion of a scholarship granted by the University of Bucharest. We were a group of 11 students, coming from Romania. The moment we arrived in Belgrade we found out that we were denied access to the city, as considered not safe for us due to the situation the country was facing – the announced military intervention from the part of the UN forces, so we were sent to Novi Sad.
The image of the trains with bullets signs on them in the railway station of Belgrade didn t help to calm us down, so we arrived at Novi Sad rather worried and had to wait, under growing tension for some of us, the US decision regarding the day when the bombarments would start. Fortunately the UN decided to postpone the intervention by two weeks and we could enjoy our permanence in Serbia.
We could see from our window the long convoys of KFOR, but nobody seemed preoccupied by them, so we just started ignoring them after a few days. I remember that the worst thing was to hear about the destruction of the bridges over Danube in Novi Sad, because we used to cross them to go visit the old part of the city.
We were studying Serbian history at that time, learning about Kosovo polje, the Metohija monuments and once I dared to say this in a discussion with an English official, who explained to me in a quite eloquent manner about the horrible tresspassing of the human rights of the Albanian people in Kosovo.
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