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Not all votes are equal: different responses from the west to elections in Ukraine, Macedonia and Kosovo suggest support only when people do as they're told.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Not all votes are equal: different responses from the west to elections in Ukraine, Macedonia and Kosovo suggest support only when people do as they're told.(Http://trawlings: the best of the web)

Article Excerpt
During the recent political crisis in Ukraine, Western politicians and commentators celebrated opposition demonstrations in Kiev's main square as symbols of the brave people of Ukraine standing up for democracy. Around the same time, a largely unreported referendum was taking place in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in which the highest echelons of the international community intervened forcefully to discourage voting.

These contrasting approaches to political participation demonstrate that the West doesn't support democratic participation in all circumstances. The November 2004 referendum in Macedonia concerned a law that was to begin implementation of the Ohrid Agreement. The Ohrid Agreement was signed in August 2001 between the Macedonian government and Macedonian Albanian parties, and had been brokered by the European Union (EU) and the USA. This came after several months of fighting between the army and Albanian separatist groups, sparked in March 2001 when Macedonian Albanian guerrillas in alliance with Kosovo Albanian fighters began offensives in...

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