http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/wo...=1&oref=slogin Quote:
Fifteen years after ethnic conflict broke out in the western Balkans, Montenegro appears to have voted by a bare margin to separate from Serbia, in what may be the last phase in redrawing the often contentious borders of the region.
The split would signal the final breaking-off of the six republics that once formed Yugoslavia. It could also help encourage the Albanian-dominated province of Kosovo to separate formally from Serbia in coming months.
The voters of Montenegro, the smallest of Yugoslavia's former republics, decided by the narrowest of margins in a referendum on Sunday that drew a heavy turnout. The state election commission said Monday that with results in from all but 49 of 1,100 polling stations, 55.4 percent of voters favored independence.
That is a mere four-tenths of a percentage point more than was necessary to pass the referendum under rules agreed on by the government and the European Union, which said it would respect the results of the election.
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It's not every day that Montenegro figures in the news, so I thought I would give you something other than the usual here.
