"U.S. unhappy with Kosovo's lobbying efforts"

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"U.S. unhappy with Kosovo's lobbying efforts"
26 May 2008

Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of State Rosemary DiCarlo says the U.S. is unsatisfied with the work of the Kosovo’s institutions in the lobbying process.

DiCarlo is understood to have said during a recent visit to Kosovo that “part of the joint plan between the United States and Kosovo was to achieve 97 recognitions by September.

After that, Kosovo was supposed to apply for a membership of the UN General Assembly”, an unnamed source told Television Kosovo.

According to the source, that plan might fall through owing to the relatively small number of countries that have recognized Kosovo and the inefficiency of the Kosovo government, writes Priština daily Koha Ditore.

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A more detailed acocunt:

US blames Muslim separatists for low Kosovo recognition, Serbianna

May 28, 2008 on 4:10 am | In In Focus, Kosovo & Metohija, News in English |
Washington has expressed criticism at the low number of states that have recognized Kosovo Albanian illegal declaration of independence saying that such outcome is a result of bad lobbying by Islamic separatists reports Islamic separatist TV Station Kohavision.

About 40 states have recognized Kosovo as independent and many of them, such as Marshall Islands, are ones that no one has ever heard of.
“Part of the joint American-Kosovo plan was to have 97 recognitions by September. Afterwards, Kosovo would apply for membership in the UN, when the General Assembly convenes,” an unnamed international official told Kohavision.

Washington says that more states need to recognize Kosovo’s illegal declaration of independence in order to demonstrate to the UN that vast number of members favor violating a UN charter so that the separatist entity could be granted a membership status within the UN.

Reportedly, the Assistant to the US Secretary of State, Rosemary DiCarlo, has conveyed this message during her recent visit to Kosovo capital Pristina where she held consultation with the separatists.

Islamic separatist TV station says that Washington is suggesting that the separatists hire Finnish diplomat Martti Ahtisaari to assist them in lobbying efforts. Ahtisaari has been instrumental in writing a plan for Kosovo that Serbia did not agree to but NATO is using it anyways.

Washington has warned Islamic separatists in Kosovo that Serbia is allegedly preparing a UN resolution against independence that will be presented to the UN General Assembly for a vote.

The self-styled “foreign minister” of the Kosovo’s Islamic separatist entity, Skender Hyseni said that he had received assurances from Saudi Arabian ambassadors in Vienna that the Islamic Sultanate will soon recognize the illegal declaration of independence of Kosovo.

Kosovo is a Serbian province that has been ethnically cleansed of Serbs by Kosovo’s Muslim Albanian armed gunmen after Washington intervened on their behalf by driving off Serb troops from the province in 1999 allowing the Islamic separatists to kill and expel Kosovo Serbs who are Christian.