Word: todorova
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Albanian rebels-who constitute almost 90 percent of Kosovo-are allowed to secede, it would set a dangerous double standard, said Maria N. Todorova, a visiting professor of history from the University of Florida who will teach History 1519: "The Modern Balkans" this spring...
...Bosnian conflict, the U.S. stood staunchly by the principle of "geographical integrity," even though ethnic Serbs wanted to break away, Todorova said. To violate this principle, and to allow the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo to form their own nation, would go against the 1995 Dayton Accord, Todorova noted...
...would be really a double standard if, on the one hand, the Kosovo Albanians would be supported in seceding whereas, on the other hand, the same right is denied to the Serbs in Bosnia," Todorova said. "Promoting [an] independent Kosovo would effectively kill the Dayton agreement in which the United States has a great stake...