Independence for Kosovo? (Voices on Genocide Prevention)
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: Voices on Genocide Prevention
Length: 22:34
Ambassador Morton Abramowitz, Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation and a former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, speaks with Jerry Folwer about the current situation in Kosovo and the United Nations? Special Envoy for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari's, drafted plan to resolve the region?s so called final status. Ambassador Abramowitz recently had an article in Newsweek International arguing that it is time to decide about Kosovo.
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Ambassador Morton Abramowitz, Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation and a former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, speaks with Jerry Folwer about the current situation in Kosovo and the United Nations? Special Envoy for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari's, drafted plan to resolve the region?s so called final status. Ambassador Abramowitz recently had an article in Newsweek International arguing that it is time to decide about Kosovo.
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APRIL 5, 2007, INDEPENDENCE FOR KOSOVO?
JERRY FOWLER: My guest today is Mort Abramowitz. He is a Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation and a former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Before holding either of those positions, he had a long and distinguished career in the Foreign Service, which included serving as United States Ambassador to Turkey and Assistant Secretary of State. Ambassador Abramowitz, welcome to the program.
MORTON ABRAMOWITZ: Thank you for having me.
JERRY FOWLER: We want to talk today about Kosovo. Since the NATO intervention there in 1999, Kosovo has basically been an international protectorate. It is still technically part of Serbia, but it is largely run by a Kosovar Albanian government, under the supervision of the United Nations, and now the United Nations? Special Envoy for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, who is a former president...
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