Last week during the lunch of a conference that we had organized I was seated next to the main editor of Koha Ditore - the biggest Kosovar newspaper. To get the conversations started we discussed if and when independence would come. Since talking with Kosovars about independence is like talking with the Dutch about the weather or with Americans about how you are I felt the need for a different angle: I wanted to know if anybody was preparing the independence party... (you know me).
And yes they are. He told me that the current Kosovar President Fatmir Sejdiu recently visited China to discuss their support for the UN Security Council Resolution on the independence of Kosovo. The journalist told me he was there to do other things to: to buy huge amounts of fireworks for the independence celebration.
I was pleasantly surprised. But I was also worried. The visit was already one month ago and storing fireworks is not an easy thing to do. I asked him where the fireworks were now. Then he leaned over and whispered: "Don't worry... we know how to hide ammunition..."
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