Serbia to partition Kosovo
Answering the question what will happen during the period while Serbia
expects the opinion of the international court on the legality of the Kosovo declaration of independence, he said that Serbia will work to
"fix the life conditions for all those that want to remain in Serbia,"
alluding to the Kosovo Serbs living in enclaves in northern and eastern Kosovo.
Asked whether this means the division of Kosovo, he answered figuratively. "I think that we should not cross the bridged before we get there," said Tadic, adding that in new negotiations all possible options would be considered. "All options are legitimate and all are better than the current one where one side loses everything, while the other side wins nothing," said Tadic.
This is the first time that Boris Tadic, who is otherwise considered a Democrat in the West, has alluded to the partition of Kosovo. Group G8 of countries that has supervised Kosovo talks for two years has ruled out division along ethnic lines for fears that other more sizable minorities in countries such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, southern Serbia, western Macedonia and western Montenegro could seek the same. Ahtisaari plan already offers Kosovo Serbs a large level of self-rule including decentralization along ethnic lines.
alluding to the Kosovo Serbs living in enclaves in northern and eastern Kosovo.
Asked whether this means the division of Kosovo, he answered figuratively. "I think that we should not cross the bridged before we get there," said Tadic, adding that in new negotiations all possible options would be considered. "All options are legitimate and all are better than the current one where one side loses everything, while the other side wins nothing," said Tadic.
This is the first time that Boris Tadic, who is otherwise considered a Democrat in the West, has alluded to the partition of Kosovo. Group G8 of countries that has supervised Kosovo talks for two years has ruled out division along ethnic lines for fears that other more sizable minorities in countries such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, southern Serbia, western Macedonia and western Montenegro could seek the same. Ahtisaari plan already offers Kosovo Serbs a large level of self-rule including decentralization along ethnic lines.
Comments (4)
Sebaneau
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... The Ahtisaari plan gives too much autonomy to the Serbs, and this is a definite obstacle to their acceptance of the situation. |
Sarah Franco
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... no, he is not Milosevic, therefore he should measure his words so as not to repeat the same arguments, but as he is being pressured by the nationalist elite within Serbia, to whom his own family belongs, he feels he needs to appease them... this is a very bad sign, because once this starts, it engenders a dangerous dynamic for serbia. Tadic may not be a hard-line nationalist, but neither is he a progressive person. He is probably half-way, one foot in each boat... in the end, like Milosevic did with the croatian serbs, tadic too will let the kosovo serbs, when using them no longer fits his purposes. meanwhile, he is undermining Kosova and making life harder for the Kosovo serbs. |
Sarah Franco
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... """"fix the life conditions for all those that want to remain in Serbia,""" this is exactly what milosevic said about the croatian serbs, then the bosnian serbs. like the croatian serbs in 1991, the majority of the kosovar serbs live outside the territory that belgrade wants to seize... this is not about those people, this is about territory and nothing else. |
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