KOSOVO: PRISTINA: BRITISH PM TONY BLAIR VISIT (3)
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2015
- (31 Jul 1999) Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
Kosovo Albanians turned out en masse to give British Prime Minister Tony Blair a special welcome as he visited the Kosovo capital and urged its people to live together in peace.
People chanted "Tony! Tony!" throughout the prime minister's visit and cried "thank-you Tony!" during a speech he made to thousands of ethnic Albanians close to Pristina's bombed out police building.
On Saturday's formal visit, the Prime Minster met United Nations, Serb and Kosovar Albanian leaders - including K-L-A leader Hashim Thaqi and his political rival Ibrahim Rugova.
Following the completion of the "Balkans Stability Pact" talks in Sarajevo, British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived to a rapturous welcome on the streets of Pristina.
It was Blair's second visit to Kosovo in two days.
On Friday he had made an impromptu visit, meeting with British troops stationed there.
But this was the Prime Minister's first official visit since the NATO air-campaign against Yugoslavia began.
Blair met for a half hour with the leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Hashim Thaci, whose popularity among ethnic Albanians has soared in recent months.
The prime minister also met separately with Thaci's main political rival, Ibrahim Rugova, the moderate politician twice chosen by ethnic Albanians to be Kosovo's president in unofficial elections.
Rugova recently returned from self-imposed exile during the Kosovo conflict, and his influence has waned during his absence.
U-N officials administering the province say they regard both leaders as important to Kosovo's political future.
The two have pointedly refused to reconcile.
Blair also met local Serb politicians and leaders of the Serbian Orthodox church.
They reportedly expressed concern about revenge attacks against the province's minority Serbs by returning ethnic Albanian refugees.
Later, in front of an avid audience, Blair spoke strongly in favour of a multi-ethnic peaceful Kosovo.
SOUNDBITE: (English with Albanian translation)
"We know that justice must apply to all people, whatever their race, whatever their religion, whatever their class, whatever their background. We want all people here in Kosovo, whether Albanians, whether Serbs, whatever their background to live in peace and security and friendship, one with another. "
SUPER CAPTION: Tony Blair, British Prime Minister
And he reinforced Britain's pledge to send 100 police to Kosovo later this year to help restore an impartial civilian security presence.
Blair said he had high hopes for the future.
SOUNDBITE: (English with Albanian translation)
"I look forward to the day when I come here again, when Pristina is rebuilt, when Kosovo is rebuilt, and when all people here live in justice, and partnership and friendship for the future."
SUPER CAPTION: Tony Blair, British Prime Minister
As he left Pristina, on his way to the city's sports stadium where his helicopter was waiting, Mr Blair met a detachment of the Royal Military Police who had been helping restore law and order to the city.
He was also met by Nato's K-FOR commander General Sir Mike Jackson who bade him farewell and safe journey from Kosovo on to Tuscany in Italy where he is to spend a holiday.
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Great Respect for this Man! God bless you Tony Blair. 🇬🇧🇦🇱🇬🇧🇦🇱
Great man
I must visit kosovo beautiful people
Tony Blair: I will stabilize the Balkans in my first term
and I will amendment the constitution.
A great man Tony Blair
Taqi Yasir He can go fuck himself
@@Jamesyboii you can fuck yourself. Tony can do what he want in Kosovo... he's one of us.
@@JR-zl1bm 🇽🇰 ❤️ 🏴 ❤️🇽🇰
God bless you Tony Blair🇽🇰🇬🇧
Zlocinac tony blair
@@viralandrej4457Criminal is Slobodan Milosheviç.Arkan.This man told to Serbs how to mind they own business that’s All.
Mi smo gradili Pristinu, ovaj stadion, sve! Dajte te pare nazad. TERORISTI!!!!
Al ste smesni 😂
Great Man. History will be kinder to Tony Blair than current opinion.
Heaven knows what drugs you are ... Tony B Liar is a war criminal
Centrist philosopher. I think you may well be right
Centrist Philosopher are you for real??????
Blair's lies are responsible for most of the world's problems for the last 18 years.
1:20 , dva najveca gangstera, samo im jos Bill fali
TERORISTI!!!!
Marijanovo mudo je on
SAS bodyguards wearing tan gillets /waistcoats
I was trying to see what weapons they were carrying covertly, Can spot any though
Not SAS Ian. RMP close protection team
@@williammohan9784 🙋♂️
@@ianmangham4570 sorry mate, i am one of those who doesnt understand these images, i am the original thick paddy, sorry lol
Чёрт, это не козёл с рогами и копытами, как принято считать. Чёрт, это ☝️
ta çifsha rracen siberiane
The Tony Blair Witch Project
Blair thinks he’s the messiah. What a belter
He kinda was back then. Remember this is 1999, before Iraq and all the rest of it that damaged his reputation
@olehomer1988 hahah wtf man
I cannot stand the man but he did right here.
Not impressed Mr. Blair.
Iraq damaged his reputation badly
@Joe Stewart-Paul I don't think it's fair that it did tbh. The British effort in Iraq removed a genocidal dictator similar to Milosevic who killed ethnic minorities and attacked British allies, and did so with minimal casualties. It's the American efforts after the initial war that ruined perceptions of it.