#kosovo

It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#defeat #difficult #fell #into #kosovo

Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#close #could #europe #germany #greece

Fallujah was a Guernica with no Picasso. A city of 300,000 was deprived of water, electricity, and food, emptied of most of its inhabitants who ended up parked in camps. Then came the methodical bombing and recapture of the city block by block. When soldiers occupied the hospital, The New York Times managed to justify this act on grounds that the hospital served as an enemy propaganda center by exaggerating the number of casualties. And by the way, just how many casualties were there? Nobody knows, there is no body count for Iraqis. When estimates are published, even by reputable scientific reviews, they are denounced as exaggerated. Finally, the inhabitants were allowed to return to their devastated city, by way of military checkpoints, and start to sift through the rubble, under the watchful eye of soldiers and biometric controls. ↗

— Jean Bricmont

#foreign-policy #france #human-rights #iraq #kosovo-war

Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#countries #eastern #eastern europe #europe #kosovo

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#destiny #european #european union #join #kosovo

The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#capable #demonstrating #depend #independence #kosovo

At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#aid #battle #centuries #conquer #expecting

My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#democratic #economy #eu #good #independent

There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#companies #competitive #country #even #expose

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#history #imagine #kosovo #part #serbia