... hope that EU will perform its mediating functions in bona-fide way.
We believe that the key to successful progress on this track is the implementation of decisions already agreed by the parties, primarily in terms of the formation of the Community of Serbian Municipalities in Kosovo. Pristina has been sabotaging this commitment since 2013. This key agreement should be implemented.
Attempts to promote the idea of a “Greater Albania” can overthrow post-conflict normalization in the territory of former Yugoslavia.
Intra-Bosnian ...
... in the Balkans. EU attempts to achieve a rapprochement between Belgrade and Pristina in 2018 failed. However, this development created an important foundation for further endeavours in this direction in the future. In particular, a land swap between Kosovo and Serbia is now being discussed in earnest today, which could serve as a potential basis for future agreements.
Moreover, following the parliamentary elections in Kosovo, the United States openly declared that it wanted these talks to be resumed. Washington ...
... develop the Russian Caucasus, Abkhazia, and Georgia.
Looking at the Chinese handover of Hong-Kong and Macao, Georgia might succeed in re-integrating or implementing a Federal/Confederal system with Abkhazia and South-Ossetia. The same could apply to Serbia in Kosovo.
Western states and Russia have failed to develop a sustainable dialogue regarding partially recognized states in the post-Socialist order, contrary to Beijing in Southern Asia. Tensions remain between Taiwan and Beijing, although economic cooperation ...
... supporter of the creation of “ethnocentric states”, namely, “great” Albania, “great” Serbia, and “great” Croatia. This scenario would mean the following territorial exchange:
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“Great” Albania
: the Republic of Albania, most of Kosovo, part of Macedonia, part of Serbia (Bujanovac and Presevo), Ulcinj part of Montenegro;
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“Great” Serbia
: the Republic of Serbia, the Republika Srpska with access to the sea in the Herceg Novi region (Montenegro) and the Serbian communities in the north of Kosovo, including ...
... process together with some other player, for example, with Russia, looks both possible and desirable.
6. Official comments made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
The comment of the Russian Foreign Ministry, condemning the creation of the Kosovo army, was presented in the Serbian media as an open support for Belgrade from Moscow. Obviously, the representatives of the ruling parties (in particular, Ivica Dacic, the head of the Serbian Foreign Ministry) also used this, saying that if the United States was included in the ...
... the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in 1998–1999
. Although Serbia, with the backing of Russia and China, has thus far refused to formally recognize Kosovo’s independence, there are many things indicating that this firm stance may not last for long.
Kosovo and Serbia
Alexander Pivovarenko:
Montenegro in the “Zone of Containment” for Russia
Serbia has already
de facto
recognized Kosovo’s independence – under Aleksandr Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party and Ivica Dacic’s Socialist Party of Serbia,...
... unification of Kosovo, the scenario is clear. First will be raise the issue of Western Macedonia, and then the rest of the Balkans with an Albanian population. In addition to the current territory of Albania Shiptar great country, it is planed to enter Kosovo and Metohija, Presevo valley in southern Serbia (Presevo, Bujanovac, part Medvedje), the western part of Macedonia, Southern and eastern parts of Ulcinj in Montenegro and parts of the municipalities of Plav and Rožaje and Southern Greek Epirus, with the Greeks who for a long time play on card ...
Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia. Novak Djokovic, world tenis player No 1 In NATO bombing of Yugoslavia which began on 24 March, 1999. more than 2,000 people have been killed and nearly 5,000 wounded. There were severely damaged infrastructure, commercial buildings, schools, hospitals,...
Last month’s deal between Serbia and Kosovo was a three-pointer for Cathy Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief. But she seems unfit to face different challenges
The deal, agreed after 10 rounds of direct talks between the countries’ leaders under the auspices of Catherine ...
