":Well, independence or no, that's (one of) the least (important) thing(s). I asked you for a full-scale solution. But we could say that the tensions are still high... and that practically, war still lasts. I'm not sure that there are 2,000,000 Albanians, I've heard that (and the 2.2) overestimate strictly from Albanian sources. And, if we return all the refugees, we would get a figure of almost 500,000 non-albanians (among whome 200,000-300,000 would be Serbs). There is also a fair amount of Albanians (Serbian sources claim even 100,000) that have nothing with Kosovo, but have migrated across the non-existent border division between Albania & Kosovo; the UN predicted a return of those people in 1999.  

 :You are right about the anti-UN feeling. In 2004 during the mass riot tens of UN peacekeeping units were killed and even more hurt. As a note to stop the negotiations, there were mass deminstrations this year. Search around wikipedia for ""Self-determination! movement"", if memory serves me well, it has an article. They are drawing the limits, and seeing the UN as European colonists of the Americans, whereas the rest of the population (read: all peoples) openly consider the protectorate an occupation. It has nothing to do with the will of some people, but with the fact that the UN & NATO have done such a poor job on Kosovo in the last 6 years.  

 :Financial help from Serbia for Serbs is out of the question; the Kosovar transitional government demands that the investments should go to Pristina, and then elsewhere; they see Kosovo centralist & unified (no division - they won't do the same mistake like the Serbs).  

 :My thoughts are that when talking realistic, the best possible solution for Kosovo is sadly, some form of independence. I say sadly, because that will be the end of BiH one way or another (peaceful or a new war). 90% of the population of the Serb Republic don't want to have anything to do with the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina; and since the Bosniak leadership has learned to like the fact that it almost won the recent war, it's expectable that they will under no circumstance allow the Serbs' separation... And since the World is unlikely to support the Serbs, it seems as if war will be the last option (then again, we return to the very circle that almost no Bosnian wants war and that the world will stop it this time - so it's an endless loop of political intrigue). 

 :As for my personal opinions - well, they could be wrong. I'm generally for disintegration of states and always for unification. I think that we have to simply undo all the things that happened before, make it seem like they never happened, to further undermine their evildoers. This is why I support bringing a firm Constitution for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and abolishing all the entities; making it unified again. This is why I think that what the serbian side in the negotiations for Kosovo is almost right: high-level autonomy within Serbia. This is why I am satisfied with the new Constitution of Serbia giving higher autonomy to Vojvodina; and this is why I support the transitional Croatia-Bosnia-Serbia-Kosovo-Macedonia-Albania-Montenegro union. Hopefully, one day, Europe (and the whole world) will finally be clear of borders. This is the main reason why I never support creating any sort of new international political entities. Cheers, mate. 

 ::P.S. as its smaller cousin to the west did recently. What does this mean? Albania gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912. And it became free of Axis forces membership by 1943/4.   

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