Mr. Holbrooke was quoted by VOA as saying that "Kosovo will become independent only if the government led by ethnic Albanians gives ironclad guarantees to the Serb minority."
"The Albanians, he says, have been making things harder for themselves by being aggressive towards the Serb minority. The Albanians need to recognize, he says, that they cannot drive the remaining Serbs out of Kosovo," the VOA reported.
"It is obvious to anyone who has been in Kosovo and visited the religious monuments, that, like in Jerusalem, two different, ancient cultures coexisted on the same land and must continue to find a way to do so," Mr. Holbrooke says.