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Will there be division of Kosovo?

Priština

How will negotiations between Belgrade and Priština finish , will there be division of Kosovo and will these events shake the Balkans’ ground is a current affair. The situation is even more complicated thanks to the officials’ contradictory statements as well as to the messages from the high international addresses.

Analyst from Kosovo and a high functionary form the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Azem Vlasi, says for CdM, that ideas about division of Kosovo are just stories told in order to provoke by the individuals from the surroundings of Alelsandar Vučić.

“To speak of the division of Kosovo is the same as to speak of the division of Serbia. As an autonomous unit in the former SFRY, Kosovo has its borders just like other federal units which became countries after 1991. Same borders were confirmed by the UN Resolution 1244 SB UN, by the Ahtisaari Plan as an international document which declared Kosovo as an independent country in 2008. Around 115 UN Member States have recognized Kosovo”, points out Vlasi.

Just like other six countries of the former Yugoslavia exist, the same goes for Kosovo. Vlasi warns that Belgrade is trying to destabilize Kosovo.

“They want, in many ways, to weaken the position of Kosovo in the final conversations in Brussels. They might even start to instrumentalize Serbs in Kosovo, the same way Milošević did at his time. However, regardless of the provocations of any kind, Kosovo has capacities to maintain internal stability and peace for its citizens”, says Vlasi.

Security expert from Belgrade, Aleksandar Radić, says that the situation which might be labeled as the final solution for Kosovo is already being created.

“It is clear that Belgrade and Priština will be put under the pressure of some foreign factor but these things won’t cause great destabilization. It’s just political marketing. The compromise between Belgrade and Priština must be reached though. The attitude of Priština will be rigid in these negotiations”, says Radić.

The President and the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi and Ramush Haradinaj, were loud and clear – there won’t be division of Kosovo.

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