Off to Belgrade tomorrow for a conference on Thursday hosted by the Belgrade Forum for the World of Equals as supported by Russian partners. The theme is European Security in the Light of 2012 Elections.
Notable speakers include Dragan Todorovic of the Serbian Radical Party, whose programme asserts Serbia‘s rights over plenty of currently non-Serbia territory in former Yugoslavia. And James Jatras of the American Council for Kosovo which has what might politely be called firm paleoconservative views in favour of Kosovo staying part of Serbia.
The Belgrade Forum is strong on denouncing what it calls ‘NATO’s crimes’ in former Yugoslavia. Plus it has the good luck to draw on the North Korean school of drafting when it sends fraternal messages to other organisations:
The leadership and members of the Belgrade Forum hold in highest regard our thriving cooperation, an outstanding level of our mutual friendship and the evident closeness in opinions on key issues, such as those concerning peace, security, democracy and overall progress.
So insofar as I am there to give a quixotic ‘Western’/UK view of the emerging European scene, I can expect to be heavily outnumbered by different proud Slavophiliac tendencies.
No matter:
The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one …This day, we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny and usher in a world brighter than anything we can imagine! To victory!!
after all those years you spent in balkans as "diplomat", you didn't learn anything. after reading all your posts about and in connection of that region, it's so obvious that third class "diplomat" cannot become person of dignity. pity.
oh, there is censorship as well. not surprised!
No idea what you’re talking about. But you seem cross.