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“Kosovo will not turn into an independent state,” NATO chief Mr. Solana is said to have stated. It would be good not to confuse exclusive solutions, such as a protectorate, with the question of the status Kosovo should enjoy in the future. Kosovo is now part of a stat— says that they lack the tradition to build a democratic state. The national aspirations of the Albanians, which have been forcefully articulated, constitute an entity with the will and a serious commitment to democratic and peaceful integration. Albanians are seeking only a historic opportunity, which now seems to have arrived after winning the war against Millosheviç and the collapse of the illusions of “coexistence between Albanians and Serbs.” French professor Mishel Rukse, in an interview given to “Borba” several years ago, when he had defended the thesis that the Albanians of Kosovo formed a compact community, declared: “I support the nationalism of a small people, not the nationalism of a large people.” Add to this the fact that Albanians make up over 90% of Kosovo’s ethnic population, and you become fully convinced that the right to self-determination is not only an inalienable right, but also an extremely necessary one. After the great loser Millosheviç, it is the Serbian Orthodox Church, headed by Patriarch Pavël, that is seeking to revive Serbian nationalism, with the aim of putting pressure on international diplomacy. The nationalist message | Patri-

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