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ADN Kronos International (Italy)
June 12, 2007
KOSOVO: CASTRO RAPS 'TYRANT' BUSH
Havana - Cuba's leader Fidel Castro has issued a stern
rebuke to United States president George W. Bush for
remarks he made over the independence of breakaway
Kosovo last Sunday during his visit to the Albanian
capital, Tirana.
In a statement headed 'The Tyrant Visits Tirana'
carried by the Cuban news agency, Castro slammed Bush
for voicing support for Kosovo's independence "without
the least respect for the interests of Serbia, Russia
and the various European countries all sensitive to
the fate of the province which was the scenario for
the latest NATO war."
"He lectured Serbia that it would receive economic aid
if it would support the independence of Kosovo, the
birthplace of that country’s culture. You can take it
or you can leave it," the statement of the
octogenarian Castro continued.
"Bush is craving for affection. He fully enjoyed his
reception without protests in Bulgaria. He spoke with
that country’s soldiers who took part in the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan," the statement said
"He tried to commit them further to spill generous
blood in those peaceful wars," the statement added.
Bush on Monday visited Bulgaria - a staunch US ally -
on the final leg of an eight-day European visit that
also took in the G8 summit in Germany, the Czech
Republic, Poland, Italy and Albania.
Commenting on the arrival in September of more than
3,000 US troops at a new base in Bulgaria as part of a
US policy to move many of its European forces closer
to the Middle East, Castro, 81, said: "From two
thousand to five thousand of Bush’s soldiers will be
rotating constantly through the three military bases
implanted by the empire....As if we were living in the
happiest of all worlds!"
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Prensa Latina
June 14, 2007
New Reflections by Fidel Castro
Havana - Cuban President Fidel Castro reflected on US
President George W. Bush's support for Albania's
immediate entry into NATO and his decision to demand
independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo.
Due to its importance, Prensa Latina integrally
reproduces reflections by the Cuban president:
REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF:
NEEDING AFFECTION
Albania was really the only place where Bush got any
affection; to such an extent that the reception in
Bulgaria where several thousand people awaited him
waving little American flags seemed cool to him.
Bush’s support for Albania's immediate entry into NATO
and his decision to demand independence for the
province of Kosovo made quite a few Albanians a bit
crazy.
Newspapers and other media report that some of them,
when questioned individually, answered:
“Bush is a symbol of democracy. The United States is a
protector of peoples' freedom."
Thousands of unarmed Albanian soldiers and policemen,
because that was what the Yankee authorities demanded,
stood guard in two columns along more than 20
kilometers stretching between the airport and the
capital.
The thorny problem of the independence of one part of
Serbia is very controversial in Europe, and a
precedent that could be followed in several countries
by other regions claiming sovereignty within current
borders.
And so Albania went over from the extreme left to the
extreme right.
To live to see it! Seeing is believing!
Serbia receives a hard blow not only political but
also economic.
Kosovo possesses 70 percent of Serbia’s energy
reserves.
Between 1928 and 1999, the year of the NATO war
against Serbia, the province contributed 70 percent of
the zinc and silver.
It is estimated to have 82 percent of its possible
reserves of these metals. It also has the largest
reserves of bauxite, nickel and cobalt.
Serbia loses factories, lands and properties, and is
left only with the duty to pay for the foreign debt
incurred for investments in Kosovo prior to 1998.
I have just received a news dispatch from AFP that
forces me to extend myself for a few more lines. It
literally reads:
“Moscow, June 13, 2007.
“Russia accuses the West of holding secret talks for
the independence of Kosovo.
“Russia reproached the Western nations on Wednesday
for working secretly and in ‘unilaterally’ to prepare
Kosovo’s independence, according to a communiqué
released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Relations.
“The ‘secret discussions lead us to suspect that a
scenario for Kosovo’s sovereignty is being
unilaterally prepared', indicated the Ministry’s
spokesman, Mikhail Kamynin, in reference to the
meeting that the Western powers held in Paris on
Tuesday, in the absence of the Moscow government.
“This attitude, he continued, is ‘intolerable’;
moreover, ‘Russia was not invited to the meeting, and
this is incompatible with declarations in the sense of
seeking accommodating solutions’, he added.”