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THINK LARGER THAN IT MEANS FOR THE BALL CANS NOW A QUICKEN PACE TOCK PART OF EUROPE. >> Host: LET ME PUT IN
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IN GEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE AN AREA OF THE WORLD MANY MAY
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NOT FOLLOW AS CLOSELY AS YOU DO. THIS
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IS SERBIA AND KOSOVO ALONG ITS SOUTHERN BORDER NEXT TO ALBANIA AND MACEDONIA, KRR V.A..ING OUT ITS OWN, IN TERMS
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OF ITS OWN GEOGRAPHY, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? >> Guest: -- THE LAST BREAK-UP OF WHAT WAS THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA. ALL OF THE COUNTRIES HAVE NOW CARVED OUT...
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INDEPENDENT COUNTRY? >> Guest: IT IS ROUGHLY THE SIZE OF OUR STATE OF CONNECTICUT THERE. ARE APPROXIMATELY TWO MILLION PEOPLE. I SAY APPROXIMATELY...
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Guest: ABOUT 10% MINORITIES. SERBIANS, PRIOR TO --
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DURING THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, THERE WERE AN ESTIMATED 200 TO 250 THOUSAND. OF THOSE, THE U.N. ESTIMATION IS THERE ABOUT 100 OR 125,000 STILL REMAINING....
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EARLY '80s HOW WAS YUGOSLAVIA
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CREATED? >> Guest: WELL, AFTER WORLD WAR II IT BECAME AN EMPIRE ESSENTIALLY HELD TOGETHER BY THE WILL OF A VERY CHARISMATIC AND POWERFUL MARSHAL,
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TITO. IT CERTAINLY DID BETTER THAN ITS NEIGHBORS COUNTRIES, IF YOU WOULD. THE REST OF CENTRAL EUROPE AT THAT POINT WAS UNDER THE SOVIET
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SPHERE. SO, USING OOZE OOZANCY FROM THE UNITED STATES AND ALSO THE SOVIET UNION AND HEALTHY ARMS TRADE WITH THE MIDDLE EAST YUGOSLAVIA DID WELL....
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ALL REMEMBER IN 1999 THERE WERE THOUSANDS CAMPS, REFUGEE
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CAMPS. NATO, AT THAT POINT, DECIDED IT HAD TO INTERVENE. SO 78 DAYS OF NATO BOMBING THEN BROUGHT A HALT TO THAT SERBIA ACQUESTION ESSED THEIR SOLDIERS...
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MADE IT VERY CLEAR THAT IT WOULD VETO THAT PROCESS. AND SO, THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF FINLAND AND NOTED PEACE NEGOTIATOR WAS ASSIGNED TO COME UP WITH...
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WITH THE FINAL OUTCOME. HE NEGOTIATED WITH BOTH SIDES FOR ABOUT 16 MONTHS, MOSTLY SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY. THE RESULT WAS WHAT HE CONCEIVED WAS SUPERVISED...
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COUNTRIES? >> Guest: THANK
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YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
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QUESTION. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THE POPULATION
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NUMBERS ARE THERE APPROXIMATELY TWO MILLION PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN KOSOVO. 92% OF WHICH ARE ALBANIAN. 6% ARE SERBIAN AND THE REST ARE TURKISH, ROM SPADZ...
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ALBANIANS ROUGHLY IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD ARE 65% MUSLIM, 15% CATHOLIC AND 10% ORTHODOX. BUT, WE ARE OBVIOUSLY A PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER HAD RELIGIOUS...
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ARE RECOGNIZED BY EVERYONE. THE ONLY QUESTION WHETHER ALL OF KOSOVO SHOULD BE PART OF SERBIA OR ON ITS OWN. THOSE ARE HISTORICAL BORDERS ESSENTIALLY...
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BY EVERYONE. >> Host: MIDDLETOWN, MARYLAND, GOOD MORNING ON THE REPUBLICAN LINE. >> Caller: GOOD MORNING. >> Guest: GOOD MORNING. >> Caller: I...
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SIDE, CIVILIANS RUNNING IN THE MOUNTAINS. PRETTY MUCH,
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I
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DON'T KNOW
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HOW MANY, 800,000 OR ONE-THIRD OF THE NATION WAS KILLED. AND, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS UNBELIEVABLE BACK THEN. >> Host: THANK YOU. >> Guest: THANK YOU....
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U.N., OVER 10,000 ALBANIANS
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WERE KILLED. AND IN TERMS OF REFUGEES, THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 1.3 MILLION EITHER INTERNALLY DISPLACED OR REFUGEES MOSTLY IN EITHER ALBANIA OR MACEDONIA...
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ALBANIANS HAVE BEEN TOLD, LOOK IT, YOU WENT THROUGH A VERY DIFFICULT TIME BUT YOU NEED TO MOVE BEYOND IT. AND, IN ORDER FOR US
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TO MAKE SURE THAT THE SERBS ARE GOING TO
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HAVE A PLACE IN THE NEW KOSOVO, THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN PROBABLY THE BIGGEST RIGHTS OUT OF ANY OF
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THE MINORITY GROUPS ANYWHERE IN EUROPE. THEY HAVE BEEN OFFERED, AS ONE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND HAVE BEEN GIVEN TWO MINISTRIES. THIS IS PRETTY REMARKABLE...
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DIALECT IT WOULD BE KOSOVO. >> Host: SO WE ARE PRONOUNCING IT CORRECTLY. MAYBE NOT? >> Guest: I THINK AFTER INDEPENDENCE IT WILL BE
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KOSOVA. >> Host: KOSOVA. >> Guest: -- IT WILL BE DECLARED AS. >> Host: GOOD MORNING, CALLER. >> Caller: GOOD MORNING, C-SPAN. [ SPEAKING FOREIGN
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LANGUAGE ] >> Caller: I HAVE A COMMENT ON
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IN. -- THIS. I WANTED TO THANK PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE UNITED STATES FOR
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THE INDEPENDENCE OF CO
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SOKOSOVO BECAUSE WITHOUT THEM THEY WERE HAVING A
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VERY HARD TIME. BUT FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND ESPECIALLY WEST EUROPE, WE
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CANNOT WAIT TO CELEBRATE THE INDEPENDENCE OF KOSOVO.
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I'M VERY PROUD OF THAT YOU ARE PRESENTING TODAY. YOU ARE KOSOVO HERE. >> Guest: THANK YOU VERY. >> Host: THANK YOU FOR THE CALL. SO, WHEN WILL THIS...
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INDEPENDENCE. WHAT
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WE ARE UNDERSTANDING IS THAT A SNAFKT MAJORITY WILL
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RECOGNIZE IT IMMEDIATELY THEN THERE ARE SOME COUNTRIES IT WILL REQUIRE FOR THEM TO WAIT A COUPLE OF MONTHS, AGAIN PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THEIR INTERNAL...
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SHOULD NOT BE PARTICIPATING IN THOSE MINISTRIES THAT HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED TO
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THEM. SO, IF THERE IS VIOLENCE, IT WOULD BE BECAUSE OF SOME EXTREMISTS ON THE SERBIAN SIDE. CLEARLY, ON THIS SIDE, IT DOESN'T HELP THE ALBANIANS TO...
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| 00:14:02 |
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OUR PEOPLE. BUT, THEY WANTED TO ALLOW FOR SERBIA TO RUN ITS RECENT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND THEN IMMEDIATELY
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THEREAFTER, THE IDEA WAS THAT THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ITS MEMBER COUNTRIES JUST NEEDED TO LINE UP A LOT OF THINGS IN ORDER FOR THEM TO MAKE THAT DECLARATION....
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WANT TO TAKE OVER THIS PLACE IN KOSOVO. NUMBER TWO AS AN ORTHODOX
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CHRISTIAN, YOU
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HAVE
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DESTROYED MANY OF THE OLD AN AT THIS PARTICULAR TIMES, THE -- ANTIQUITIES, THE OLD CHURCHES. MANY MAY BE STANDING NOW BUT MANY HAVE BEEN DESTROYED...
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IN 1999, IN WHICH SERBIA, THROUGH MILITARY, PARAMILITARY POLICE FORCES TRIED TO RUN EVERYBODY OUT OF THAT COUNTRY. IN TERMS OF THE CHURCHES, YES, UNFORTUNATELY,...
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MONTH. SO, THE ECONOMY REALLY
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IS IN SHAMBLES AND THAT HAS BEEN ONE OF THE BIGGEST MISGIVINGS OF THE U.N. GOVERNANCE THERE. AND IT'S UNDERSTOOD, BECAUSE THE PRIVATIZATION PROCESS...
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KNOW, WORLD WAR I WAS SPARKED THERE
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AND YOU LOOK AT WHAT RECENTLY HAPPENED IN THE '90s
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AND I
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THINK IT IS A SYMPTOM THAT WE HAVE MILES TO GO BEFORE WE REST, AS A HUMANITY. BASICALLY, THE CLASH, I SEE, BETWEEN THE RELIGIONS, IT'S NOT JUST ENDEMIC...
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DIFFERENCES NOR DID THE SERBS ATTACK THE AIL BANIANS BECAUSE OF RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES. RELIGION WAS ONLY USED AS A METHODOLOGY FOR ROOTING THE ALBANIANS...
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TO A LARGE EXTENT, IN THE ARMS
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TRADE? YOU KNOW, THE BREAK-UP AND ALL THESE NATION STATES AND PRINCIPALITIES BY, I BELIEVE H. BUSH WAS THE PRESIDENT THEN. WOULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN...
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NEARLY 80s, A VERY CHARISMATIC LEADER AND TO HIS CREDIT HE ECONOMICALLY BUILT UP THAT WHOLE REGION. BUT, IN TERMS OF RECOGNIZING OR NOT RECOGNIZING...
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OF YUGOSLAVIA, IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT IT WAS REALLY KEPT TOGETHER BY -- BY FORCE AND NOT BY NATURAL INSIST TENSE ON THESE PEOPLES LIVING...
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THERE WERE
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ANY CASUALTIES
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AT ALL AND IT
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BASICALLY FREED KOSOVO PEOPLE. >> Host: IN FACT, A STREET NAMED AFTER THE FORMER PRESIDENT, IS THERE NOT, IN PRISTINA. >> Host: THERE IS A VERY LARGE...
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IS STRUCTURED IS THAT THE NATO GENERAL IS
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ALWAYS AN AMERICAN BUT NATO IS A EUROPEAN MILITARY FORCE. AND SO, WHILE IT WAS, AS ONE OF THE CALLERS EARLIER MENTIONED, IT WAS LED
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BIF
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U.S. MILITARY STRIKES AND THERE WERE NO AMERICAN CASUALTIES AND FOR THAT, WE ARE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL SO NATO LED THAT WAR TO ESSENTIALLY PREVENTS THIS...
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KOSOVARS, THEY ARE READY TO MOVE ON WITH THEIR LIVES.
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I THINK ACROSS THE BOARD ALBANIANS WILL SAY THE SERBS THAT LIVE THERE, THEY ARE WELCOME. THEY HAVE CHURCHES THERE AND HAVE BURIED FAMILY THERE. THEY...
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2008 ELECTION. TOMORROW ON THE "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" WE'LL TURN OUR ATTENTION TO CAMPAIGN 2008 BUT THOSE HOUSE AND SENATE RACES. BOB BENENSON
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WILL BE JOINING US FROM
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Host, -
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CQPOLITICS.COM AND WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT
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OUR LINCOLN 200-YEAR PROJECT. DAVID CAL LEN DR, WITH HIS VIEW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN WISCONSIN. THE PRIMARY TUESDAY. A POLITICAL REPORTER FOR THE CAPITAL...
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