The Albanian leaders of Kosovo declared themselves independent from Serbia at 03.00 pm on Sunday the 17th of February with the blessing of the USA and EU. This is a secession declaration. For all practical purposes Kosovo will, unfortunately for the Western game players, not be independent.  The West’s support to the formerly terrorist-declared Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA as well as NATO’s extraordinarily bombing for peace campaign few years ago was seen as side-taking by the Albanians in Kosovo. During the 79-day NATO bombing of Yugoslavia that followed, the West made promises of independence to the KLA. Indeed, for many separatist movements around the world, today’s secession is very promising and might be the basis for thousand declarations of independence – Chechnya, Kurdistan, Abkhazia, Tibet, Taiwan, the Basque country, etc.... In fact this secession is illegal in every sense according to international law and UN Security Council resolution 1244 that makes it abundantly clear that Kosovo belongs to Serbia

Ten years ago, Kosovo was at relative peace. Albanian demands for independence from Belgrade were being channeled through the peaceful Democratic League party of Ibrahim Rugova, while the small groups of Albanian paramilitaries that did exist were isolated and had little public support. According to a report by Jane's intelligence agency in 1996, the Kosovo Liberation Army, the most extreme of Albanian paramilitary groups, does not take into consideration the political or economic importance of its victims. As late as November 1997, the KLA, officially classified by the US as a terrorist organization has been estimated of only 200 men. Then, in a policy shift and its results as we are witnessing today, the West started to interfere in Serbian affairs in a massive scale. The US, Germany and Britain increasingly saw the KLA as a proxy force which could help them achieve their goal of destabilizing and eventually removing from power the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Over the following year, the KLA underwent a drastic makeover. The group was taken off the US State Department's list of terrorist organizations and, as with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan a decade or so earlier, became fully fledged freedom fighters. Large-scale assistance was given to the KLA by Western security forces. Britain organized secret training camps in northern Albania. The German secret service provided uniforms, weapons and instructors. The Sunday Times in Britain published a report stating that American intelligence agents admitted they helped to train the KLA before NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, Rugova's Democratic League, which supported negotiations with Belgrade, was totally ignored. What is certain is that without western patronage the KLA would never have grown to the force it eventually became.

One should be acutely aware this secession is realized outside the UNSC  and in the eyes of anyone who can still interpret it  in short, a blow to international law, the UN Charter and  and the territorial integrity of member states . EU    mission in Pristina  which is neither   established through UN Security Council decision nor accepted by Serbia but has been agreed with Kosovo’s leaders at a time when it was not yet declared independent and it clearly manifests the imperialistic designs of EU.  Europe’s largest refugee problem is in Serbia and made up of Serbs ethnically cleansed out of Kosovo after 1999. Of 200.000 only a few thousand have returned during the last 9 years – a clear evidence that the Kosovo-Albanian leadership has not done enough to stand credible when they say that their Kosovo will be multi-ethnic and is like saying Pakistan is officially a multireligious state.
 

Recognizing an independent Kosovo will push Serbia from the Western orbit as well as creating a real chance of war. And it will set a precedent: if the rights of self-determination for Kosovo Albanians are to be acknowledged, then what about the rights of self-determination for Serbs in Bosnia,  Croatia and Russians in dozen or more countries. It was at the height of the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 that the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, made his famous speech at Chicago in which he outlined his doctrine of the international community. Blair argued that the principle of non-interference in the affairs of sovereign states - long considered an important principle of international order - should be subject to revision. "I say to you: never fall again for the doctrine of isolationism," Blair pleaded. But after surveying the global debris of a decade of Western interference, from the Balkans to Afghanistan and Iraq, is it any wonder that isolationism and observing the principle of non-interference in the affairs of sovereign states again seems so appealing?  Current danger and instability in the world may come from secessionist movements which refer to Kosovo and begin to see their chances: Kashmir, Chechnya, Tibet, Taiwan, Baluchistan, the Basque country, you name them – why not them if Kosovo In short, I predict we will see anything but the “peace” and “stabilization” which pro-independence advocates all over the West wishfully – to soothe their own fears and calm down public opinion – assert will be the outcome of the independence.
The international community in general and those who recognize Kosovo today or tomorrow are likely to blame "the Serbs" and Belgrade for everything bad that may happen after this Sad Sunday. You will even hear modern Europeans and Americans say that these poor guys do not understand that the independent Kosovo is in their own best interest...You’ll also hear them repeat that Serbia has lost the right to keep Kosovo because of Milosevic policies. But a) Serbia is the only republic that has made up the account with its wartime leadership and b) how many other countries would lose such a right dues to human rights violations. You will also hear the unique-to-Kosovo argument that no solution could be found over 9 years through negotiation and this we do a fait accompli. Imagine that that principle had been applied to Palestinian –Israeli or to North and South Korea imbroglio the unavoidable result of Sunday February 17, 2008, then is the beginning of a new round of conflict and violence for future generations to suffer from.