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Serbian forum dwellers are confused and terrified by the statements made by the UN representative Martti Ahtisaari, who is authorized to tackle international negotiations to determine the final status of Kosovo and Metohia (K&M in further text). During the set of negotiations held in Vienna on August 8, Ahtisaari announced that Serbs would have to pay for Milosevic's politics implemented in the province of K&M during his rule.

At SerbianCafe.com forum (SRP), Magare refers to a previous set of negotiations that put an end to NATO's bombing of Serbia in 1999. Ahtisaari's mediation then led to an agreement signed in the Macedonian border town of Kumanovo, which resulted in Serbian forces withdrawing from K&M and hundreds of thousands of Serbian refugees fleeing the territory. It came as a surprise to see such a biased diplomat involved again:

Is Martti Ahtisaari the same person who showed Milosevic a table panel and told him - if you don't sign the Kumanovo agreement, Belgrade will be flat as this table?! […]

It's like this: say, I am negotiating with someone intending to rob my house. Since I am outnumbered, as I live with my wife and granddaughter only and there are at least thirty criminals waiting outside by my door, it comes down to calling the balancing person Martti Ahtisaari to level things out, as he should be fair and square. […]

T_I adds:

[…] He is completely unaware of the fact that our nation paid that price a long time ago by losing a huge chunk of the Serbian motherland and having it ethnically cleansed of Serbs. It resulted in more than one million people moving away from the land inhabited by their ancestors for ages. I think evildoers like Ahtisaari have the aim of encouraging antagonism and uncertain relations between both Albanian and Serbian people. […] What Serbs need is the implementation of UN resolution 1244. I am talking about the part of it which approves of the return of Serbian security forces to occupied parts of the country. If that is not possible, the government should make an official announcement of occupation. […]

After a spree of criticism on the account of the person appointed by the UN to help resolve the conflict, bloggers argue about possible solutions for the K&M status problem.

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