INDEPENDENCE!
Just a short note, I ain’t got much time and all with the election campaign!
Kosovo declared independence today. I had the great pleasure of visiting Pristina with work in December of last year. It’s an interesting city. It can in one minute feel like any other European city with bustling streets, modern hotels, coffee shops, fashionable shops. The next moment it you can be in the centre of a post-war disaster zone, UN trucks and troopers, bombed out buildings, burnt out cars and man sized pot holes. Despite all this the people I met were warm, friendly and full of enthusiasm for the future.
They face unimaginable challenges, high crime, rolling power cuts, ethnic tensions, a national library that contains no books, but they still march on with hope and optimism.
I can only hope that they obtain the peace and prosperity that they seek and deserve.
Congratulations on independence and best wishes for the future.