The European Union has announced its support for a United Nations roadmap for Kosovo’s future, urging Serbs and Kosovan Albanians to start negotiations based on the draft. By contrast, Serbia immediately rejected the UN draft for allowing for an independent Kosovo.

UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari presented his “Comprehensive Proposal for the Kosovo Status Settlement” to Serb President Boris Tadic and Kosovan President Fatmi Sejdiu on February 2.

Although the draft does not openly use the term independence, it essentially puts Kosovo on a roadmap to splitting from Serbia by giving it a separate constitution and the “right to negotiate and conclude international agreements, including the right to seek membership in international organizations …” (EUobserver.com, February 2).

Kosovo, a province in Serbia, is currently administered by the UN, backed by EU troops under the nato flag.

After meeting with Ahtisaari, President Tadic said, “I told Mr. Ahtisaari that Serbia and I, as its president, will never accept Kosovo’s independence.” Serbia’s prime minister opposes the draft so strongly, he refuses to meet with the UN diplomat.

Yet the EU is pressing hard for the UN draft to become the basis of negotiations. A high-level EU delegation, including EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Germany’s foreign minister, visited Kosovo and Serbia on February 7, urging both sides to discuss the plan. “I strongly encourage both Belgrade and Pristina to engage actively with Martti Ahtisaari on the basis of his proposal,” Solana said.

It is most significant that it was Germany’s foreign minister who accompanied Solana.

The Trumpet has long said that the UN’s illegal war against the former Yugoslavia, of which Serbia was a province, was nothing more than a strategic move by Germany to gain control of the Balkans. Germany pushed for the war and received what it wanted, all in the name of European unification. Now Germany is making sure the war it started will end the way it wants—with the Balkan region under the control of a German-dominated EU.

The UN plan is precisely what Germany wants. It allows for Kosovo to join international organizations such as the EU—a move that would add yet another piece of the Balkans to the EU, and at the expense of its traditional enemy Serbia.

Ahtisaari plans to present his final proposal for Kosovo’s future to the UN Security Council in March. There it is expected to meet opposition from Serbia’s ally Russia. However, Russia may accept the plan as a blueprint to solve a similar problem in its own neighborhood: It would open the door for Russia to press for independence for pro-Russian regions in the nations of Georgia and Moldova.

To understand why and how Germany started the war against Yugoslavia and where this roadmap for Kosovo’s future will lead, read The Rising Beast—Germany’s Conquest of the Balkans.