Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] 2 new Tripoints in Europe this year?<br/>
Date: Apr 11, 2001 @ 22:26<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1510451517">thanxx for the greetings & the tidings  peter<br/>
<br/>
i confess this news had actually escaped my notice til now<br/>
since montenegro has been threatening to secede  like everyone else  for years<br/>
<br/>
  so like what else is new  etc<br/>
<br/>
but after a little checking i have found that parliamentary elections at<br/>
least will indeed be held there sunday week<br/>
with a final breakup thus looking more likely & imminent than ever<br/>
just as you say<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
so  nice catch<br/>
or rather nice 3 catches<br/>
since your analysis is impeccable<br/>
& i am glad you are keeping such a good watch over europe for us<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
also the question of whether more tps is better than fewer<br/>
  or vice versa<br/>
    or both<br/>
is very interesting<br/>
<br/>
like  is further disintegration<br/>
  hence an increase in world class tripoints<br/>
preferable to the status quo<br/>
i mean  imagining we had any choice in the matter<br/>
<br/>
  for proliferation certainly seems to be the prevailing direction<br/>
    as 100 years ago there were only about 70 world class tps<br/>
      believe it or not<br/>
<br/>
& is the status quo better or worse than the creation of new unions<br/>
  which would result in fewer world class tripoints<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
or is change itself<br/>
  in whatever direction<br/>
the most desirable thing<br/>
i mean  being the sign of life that it is<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
i guess you can tell how i would answer<br/>
<br/>
give me novelty & give me birth<br/>
liberty & death having already been given & spoken for<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
if the secession occurs tho<br/>
our targeted universe of 161 world class tps will increase by 2 to 163<br/>
& our hard earned total of 31 points actually & virtually visited so far<br/>
will thus shrink to only 19 percent of the whole<br/>
from our present all time high of 19 & a quarter percent<br/>
<br/>
so we will have to get to work again to regain this lost ground<br/>
<br/>
fortunately tho<br/>
gcebe is looking like it will take care of this<br/>
& then some<br/>
<br/>
m<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt;           As you probably know, there will be held a       referendum in<br/>
&gt;Montenegro later this month       about their continuous &quot;marriage&quot; with<br/>
&gt;the       remainder of Yugoslavia (Serbia). This re-       lationship is<br/>
&gt;most likely to end up with a -       hopefully - peaceful divorce, since<br/>
&gt;the       overwhelming majority of people in Crna       Gora/Montenegro<br/>
&gt;want a clean cut - and       independence! The newly erected Yugoslav<br/>
&gt;president Kostunica should be - according to       news reports - be<br/>
&gt;willing to &quot;let them go&quot; if       they wish... quite a contradiction to<br/>
&gt;what he&#39;s       been saying up to now!       Well: if the &quot;Black Mountain&quot;<br/>
&gt;State Montenegro       gets its independence, it will be country number<br/>
&gt;42 in Europe and as a consequence hereof       the number of Eur.<br/>
&gt;tripoints will rise from 44       to 46...:       The old tp<br/>
&gt;Yugosl-Bosnia-H.-Croatia will be       renamed Montenegro-Bosnia-Croatia<br/>
&gt;and       there will be established two new tps:<br/>
&gt;Albania-Montenegro-Yugoslavia(Kosovo!)<br/>
&gt;Bosnia+H.-Montenegro-Yugosl.(Serbia).       Quite interesting to follow<br/>
&gt;Balcan politics!       Happy Easter to all of you !       Peter H.<br/>
&gt;	. </span></blockquote></div>