7 hours agoDemarkation with Serbia most difficult will attempt to take over Kosovo territory
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Kosovo has finished the border demarcation issue with Macedonia alone. With three other neighbours -- Albania, Serbia-Montenegro -- the border continues to be not defined. The newest state in Europe will have a problem, especially defining the border with Serbia, estimates political analyst Avni Mazreku. Mazrek, professor of [...]
Kosovo has finished the border demarcation issue with Macedonia alone. With three other neighbours -- Albania, Serbia-Montenegro -- the border continues to be not defined. The newest state in Europe will have a problem, especially defining the border with Serbia, estimates political analyst Avni Mazreku.
Mazreku, professor of European Law, says Serbia will find it difficult to talk about the border with Kosovo, because the border line recognises it as an administrative border line, while for Kosovo this is the interstate border.
The first “what needs to be resolved between the two countries -- Serbia and Kosovo -- is the clear location on how this border line qualifies. Despite having had a European Union-brokered agreement on integrated border management, this has more gone into a context of saying technical organisation of the bilateral circulation of people and goods between these two states and has not solved this political problem, open between these two states”, Mazreku said in an interview for Online Economy.
The change of the current border between Kosovo and Serbia has been reactualised on Serbia's part of the past days. Serbia's Foreign Affairs Minister, Ivica Dacic, has said this would pave the way for the two states for integration into the European Union. But, former chief of Kosovo diplomacy Enver Hoxhaj, has replied that Kosovo has borders defined, internationally recognised and cannot be changed.
Mazreku warns that Serbia will try to take over Kosovo's territory, due to claims it has on assets in Kosovo.
“An unfinished problem in which KFOR was involved in Kosovo, according to Resolution 1244, is the issue of the top where the former Yugoslavia radar system has been deployed, respectively, of Serbia, which radar have been bombed during the time of NATO bombings. This point is to say that it is contested by Serbia and KFOR so far, and will later be disputed between Kosovo and Serbia”.
“also another issue that will bring trouble in the context of demutation talks between Kosovo and Serbia is the issue of Gazivoda Lake”, Mazreku predicts.
The large number of documents that would help establish the border are in Serbia, and most of them are of the former Yugoslavia's time.
Mazreku proposes that institutions take reference points to the 1974 Constitution issue, because according to him, it is the basis on which the process of independence of Kosovo is beginning to build.
The Kosovo government had proposed to the EU that, within the Brussels dialogue, it also discuss demarcation with Serbia. But so far there has been no will on the other side.
Currently, Kosovo continues to have a problem demarcation of the border with Montenegro. The agreement was reached between the two governments and ratified by Montenegro, but not by the Assembly of Kosovo, due to fierce opposition from the former opposition.
