Kosovo's Future

His UN envoy earlier said that world bodies would not recognize Kosovo if it declared unilateral independence.

The Serb province's ethnic Albanians are set to declare independence with conditional US and EU backing, despite opposition from Belgrade and Moscow. Talks on Kosovo's future, brokered by the EU, US and Russia, ended last year without agreement.

Kosovo has been run by the UN since 1999, when a US-led Nato bombing campaign drove out Serb forces accused of a brutal crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatism. Ethnic Albanians now form about 90% of the province's population.

"Any resolution on Kosovo must be approved by both sides," Mr Putin argued in an article published in the Bulgarian press to coincide with his visit
to the country.


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Russia along with Britain hates the idea of Kosovo becoming independent. Russia refuses to give up some sort of say on whether they get independence. Russia only wants them to become independent under their conditions as well as all the other former Soviet states. Serbia is willing to keep them from being independent at all costs. Russia will block them out of the UN and refuse to recognize them as a sovereign state unless both Serbia and Russia agree on their independence.

The future seems dark for Kosovo. Russia and Serbia will never agree on Kosovo's independence. I don't think Russia wants another former soviet state to become independent. What will become of Kosovo? It will either be war, or they must have extreme patience.