Financial Times: Thaci and Vuciq towards an Important Agreement

History has shown that manipulation with borders in the Balkans is more dangerous than in any other part of Europe.

But as editorial analysis of it writes, Financial TimesKosovo President Hashim Thaci and his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vuciq, are moving towards an important agreement to normalise relations, including border issues and territory exchange.

It is estimated that such a discovery could help the way Serbia is part of the European Union and Kosovo can help it become an official candidate for membership. Yet, even the impending danger of correcting territories is not ruled out.

The” Details have not been issued publicly, but both Vuciq and Thaci agree to have discussed the mainly exchange of Serb-populated northern Kosovo, for part of Serbia's Presevo Valley, populated mainly by Albanians” writes FT.

In this matter, however, it is considered that there are many potential pitfalls at the same time.

This is because while Western politics has been to encourage different ethnic groups to live peacefully side-by-side, Kosovo's controversial solution would include a fundamentally based ethnic exchange.

” More Serbs live in south Kosovo dominated by Albanians than in the north; many are separated from their relatives and key Serbian Orthodox monasteries. A land swap deal could push Serbs to leave the rest of Kosovo, turning it into an Albanian mono-ethnic state”.

The most dangerous consequence can be to encourage leaders and peoples elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia above all, Serbs in Bosnia try to change borders they dislike.

Conflict resolution, however, often requires that leaders take bold steps.

American and European Union officials have backed the plan, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel was criticised for the idea of correction, however, according to recent developments the Berlin position seems to be softening, Klan Kosova reports.

Thaci and Vuciq, according to the editorial, are estimated to need to reduce the impressions of a secret space and work harder to win their own political population and institutions. It is also vital that the European Union and other countries follow closely the events that take place. That, according to the FT, would provide an agreement to promote peace and stability, not renewed fragmentation in a troubled region.

In addition, this agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, according to estimates, affects the concentration of commitments in dealing with difficult issues in the Balkans. Special emphasis has also been given to the Macedonian Parliament on the issue of ratification of an agreement on resolving a 20-year dispute with Greece on the country's name, despite disappointing participation in a referendum on the issue last month