Tag: Balkans

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2008-07-11 In Brussels, Belgium a donor conference for Kosovo saw pledges of a total of 1.2 billion euro.
-- According to Pierre Mirel, European Commission director for Western Balkans

The EU and its member countries pledged a total of 800 million euro and the US 225 million euro. Germany pledged 100 million euro, the UK 28 million pounds sterling, Switzerland 47 million euro, Luxembourg 25.5 million euro, Italy 13 million euro, France 2.3 million euro, Slovenia 500 000 euro and Bulgaria 500 000 euro.

The George Soros Foundation pledged 500 000 euro in aid for the Roma community in Kosovo.
2007-12-14 European Union leaders agreed to send up to 1,800 police, judges, prosecutors and customs officials to Kosovo in 2008 to stabilise the Balkan province after its expected declaration of independence from Serbia.
2007-06-25 "Everybody knows that the Balkans and the Black Sea region were of special interest to us."
"Russia, with its increasing potentials, is coming back to this region. This is an obvious fact [ ... ] This is in the interest of Russia but also of our partners."
Vladimir Putin told reporters at the end of a summit of the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC)
2001-11-01 "For the past 10 years, the most senior leaders of al Qaeda have visited the Balkans: The Egyptian surgeon turned terrorist leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri has operated terrorist training camps, weapons of mass destruction factories and money-laundering and drug-trading networks throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Bosnia.
Many recruits to the Balkan wars came originally from Chechnya, a jihad in which al Qaeda has also played a part."
-- The Wall Street Journal, in an article titled “Al Qaeda’s Balkan Links”
1997 Referring to an area he calls the "Eurasian Balkans" and a 1997 map in which he has circled the exact location of the current conflict - describing it as the central region of pending conflict for world dominance - Brzezinski writes: "Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997, (p.124)
1995 The US-brokered Dayton Peace Agreement ended the war and split Bosnia between Serb and the Bosnian Muslim/Croatian confederation.
1941 / 1945 Hajj Amin El Husseini resided in Berlin as a welcome guest of the Nazis throughout the years of the Holocaust.

Hajj Amin El Husseini directed the Muslim SS divisions in the Balkans and was personally responsible for blocking negotiations late in the war that might have saved thousands of Jewish children from the gas chambers.

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