Rohan speaks of the case of Catalonia and Kosovo: They're not...

In an authorial article in the upcoming newspaper Die Presse, one of the mediators of talks on resolving Kosovo's status that was held in Vienna, Austrian Ambassador Albert Rohan, has explained why Kosovo's independence is a special case and why the Catalonia case cannot be compared to Kosovo.

Any case should be assessed according to the specifics and specifics it has and at the time it can be judged for a country's session right. In the case of Kosovo, it is a fundamental discrimination on the part of a state”, Albert Rohan first writes in his article, broadcasts RTKlive.

Kosovo had a double status: The status of the autonomous province and the right to equal representation entity in the Federation of Yugoslavia with the Republic, which split from the former Yugoslavia”, Rohan points out.

“Its status of equal ethnicity in the Yugoslav Federation lost to the breakup of Yugoslavia, while the autonomy status was suspended in 1989 by Serbia. As a reaction, in September 1991 the Albanian majority population carried out the independence referendum with an 87 per cent turnout and a 99 per cent vote of independence in referendum”, the Austrian diplomat explains.

The “after that comes to mass pressure on the majority Albanian population in Kosovo on the part of the Belgrade government and, therefore, the end of the peaceful movement and the beginning of the armed uprising against Serbian rule”.

This triggered Serbia's 1998/99 military operations, which were subsequently expelled from Kosovo 800,000 Kosovars. To end this mass deportation, the international community established international military intervention. In Kosovo later decided W NMIC and Military Mission KFOR. In 2006, with the initiative of Kai Aides by the UN in Vienna, talks on Kosovo's future status began and as a result of UN special officer Martti Ahtisaari's settlement proposal, Kosovo in 2008 declared independence. Belgrade rejected and, with his initiative, the International Court took the case, which assessed that Kosovo's independence was not in conflict with International Law”, writes Rohan, as presented by Rtclive.

None of these developments resemble the situation in Catalonia, which in language, identity and culture belongs to the common history of Spain. Catalonia has high economic development and has an inclusive autonomy guaranteed by constitution and administration”, written in the authorial text published in Die Presse, former international mediator for Kosovo status, Albert Rohan.