Kosova is a province in Serbia with a majority Albanian population; about 90% of the province or 1.8 million people are Albanian. You may recall that events in the late 90s lead to NATO action against Serbia to stop the impending genocide. The Serb government in the name of cracking down on terrorism tried to take advantage of the situation and get rid of their Albanian problem, in the process some hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and thousands killed. Ever since then the province has been in essence independent and run by the UN. By the end of this year it is likely that they will declare independence after almost 2 years of fruitless talks and almost a decade of UN rule. This may come to a head since Russia is a strong supporter of the Serb cause. In case no resolution can passed in the UN, which seems likely, Kosova will declare independence unilaterally. What are your thoughts on the situation? Specifically, do you believe Kosova should get independence, and why so? I’ll spare you my thoughts since they’re probably easy to guess.
An article on the current situation:
http://www.reuters.com/article/world...3?pageNumber=1