Platform will aggravate Belgrade-Pristina talks
Professor of international relations at the U.S. University Jones Hopkins and an analyst of the situation in the Balkans Daniel server believes that Serbia's platform for Kosovo will considerably aggravate the Belgrade-Pristina talks.
(KosovoCompromiseStuff) Monday, December 24, 2012
It seems that the platform is Belgrade's realistic position and it shows what Serbia truly wants, Server said and underscored that this document would make the negotiations harder. The Serbian Constitution makes the position of the negotiators almost impossible, he said.
The U.S. analyst believes that Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic dealt with the difficult Kosovo issue in a way that was likely to produce results, Server said in an interview for the Sunday edition of the Belgrade-based daily Politika and added that Nikolic has now provided the platform which will definitely fail.
The daily recalls that Server severely criticised the platform several days ago on his blog and qualified it as a giant step backwards. He said that the new government drew some promising moves but it cannot reconcile itself with the fact of a sovereign and independent Kosovo.
Server concluded that despite the fact that it lost sovereignty over Kosovo, Serbia still has a legitimate interest in protecting the local Serb population. This matter should be discussed with Pristina, not the status which was already set in the political process envisaged in the UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
The U.S. analyst believes that Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic dealt with the difficult Kosovo issue in a way that was likely to produce results, Server said in an interview for the Sunday edition of the Belgrade-based daily Politika and added that Nikolic has now provided the platform which will definitely fail.
The daily recalls that Server severely criticised the platform several days ago on his blog and qualified it as a giant step backwards. He said that the new government drew some promising moves but it cannot reconcile itself with the fact of a sovereign and independent Kosovo.
Server concluded that despite the fact that it lost sovereignty over Kosovo, Serbia still has a legitimate interest in protecting the local Serb population. This matter should be discussed with Pristina, not the status which was already set in the political process envisaged in the UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
