Border correction undermines Kosovo's sovereignty

So told the international conference on the “threat and challenges to Kosovo's sovereignty” organised by the Kosovar Institute for Research and Development of Politics (KIPRED) and the Columbia University Institute.

David Phillips of this Institute has considered the idea of correcting or exchanging Kosovo territories a failed idea.

According to him, Kosovo's sovereignty is threatened by the presence of Serbia, Russia and Turkey.

According to him, Russia does not care about northern Kosovo Serbs and Serbia, but Russia's goal is the minim of American and NATO influence in Kosovo.

In his view, Turkey is trying to export extremism to Kosovo in the guise of co-operation, but that Albanians are nationalist and not Islamists.

“Change of borders is a failed idea now will be dangerous and extremely destabilising and represents the failure of international society, so we need to think creatively about the new ideas for power from the Government of Kosovo to local authorities that can be measured by a single measure that is the normalisation that means recognition by Serbia for Kosovo, as an independent and sovereign state of<1>, Phillips has said.

Meanwhile, Professor of Political Sciences and International Relations Agon Demajha has called the exchange of territories a dangerous game, saying this idea undermines Kosovo's sovereignty.

Demajha said that many agreements between the two countries are blocked or partially implemented, and dialogue as such should not be continued.

In his view, the exchange of territories would mean failure of Western alliances.

The way dialogue has been structured is not dialogue between the two independent countries, but dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade that directly threatens Kosovo's sovereignty, rather without any clear deadline it is not certain how long it will take to expect how much to offer dialogue at the same time represents Kosovo's sovereignty and its entire population. . The division or correction of territories that have been mentioned as the solution or final result of Brussels' dialogue, and this not only could harm Kosovo's sovereignty but could also damage the country's” impressions, Demijaha said.

Kosovo Centre for Security Studies Executive Director Florian Qehaja said the idea for exchange of territories should be eliminated because it is harmful.

He further added that Serbia is working on normalising relations which, according to him, implies partition and the minimum achievement of Kosovo in the internal and external plan.

Serbia considers that if the normalisation plan through separation fails because they do not see the exchange as an option, but they see their partition and offer clear Kosovo's partition and the rest of Kosovo be under the association of Serbian municipalities according to the concept achieved in Brussels, perhaps with a more executive competence, and above all what they are seeing in some international issues that this option may present for the recognition itself offered on the part of Serbia and recognition has been raised, so high is the price that with context alone can be offered by the part of Serbia<>

Qehaja further said the status scenario qous is not appropriate for Kosovo.

Robert Muharrem from AUK said dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia has entered another phase saw a clear idea when it is talking about correction or division of territories.

We're going to another phase where integration is no longer being discussed, but it's referring to the correction of borders, division, adaptation of border lines, but we have no clear idea what that means. Since even those who are talking about Thaci or Vucici may not have the same idea of what they're talking about, the president spoke of correcting the borders not on ethnic grounds, but a few days later del Dacic and said that if we talk about correcting the borders then it's not only about Mitrovica, but it's also about Serb majority municipalities south of the Ibrit... so we talk about correction of the borders, but I think we have two completely different concepts of”, he said.