Kosovo, Serbia follow ghost of past

Serbia admits the crimes it has committed against Albanians, meanwhile, Kosovo will accept responsibility for the persecution of Serbs after the war.

That's what it said in the “carota panel and the European Determination-Basing-composition in the political reality of Southeast Europe”, which is organised within the summit series for the Western Balkans in Pristina.

Veton Surroi, publicist and founder of “Koha Ditore”, has said the biggest problem in reports between Kosovo and Serbia are not license plates, but how to approach the past.

Not by accusing each other, but by accepting a common nature or story. We don't deal with this, as we have issues that limit political life we have the Special Court, the Brussels Agreement. They cannot talk about the Association of Serb-run municipalities without talking about reports between the Serb and Albanian community”, Surroi has said. “Associations must go through the mourning process, rationalize death and move to the next phase. So when someone lost their lives, realizing that this happened. If you start to mourn, then enter a period when you cannot afford that loss”.

Surroi has added that there was a movement in Germany in 1968 that said Germany should take responsibility for what it had done during World War II. According to him, we are now in the phase when Serbia should do so.

Meanwhile, Germany's ambassador, Christian Heldt, has said it is the ghost of the past that makes Balkan roads towards the future difficult.