Kosovo Declares Independance

This article has a picture I never expected to see. The American Flag being held up between Albanian flags. Now that just strikes me as weird.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) - Revelers fired guns in the air, waved red-and-black Albanian flags and set off fireworks in the skies over Kosovo Sunday after parliament proclaimed independence, defying Serbia and Russia which condemned the declaration of the world's newest nation.

A decade after a bloody separatist war with Serbian forces that claimed 10,000 lives, lawmakers pronounced the territory the Republic of Kosovo and pledged to make it a "democratic, multiethnic state." Its leaders looked for swift recognition from the U.S. and key European powers—but also braced for a bitter showdown.

Serbia called the declaration illegal and its ally Russia denounced it, saying it threatened to touch off a new conflict in the Balkans. Russia called for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, which met later on Sunday.

Let's hope this doesn't turn into a mess. Because you can be assured the UN and the EU will do just what they did when Yugoslavia fractured. (For those with short memories, they didn't do anything.)