Serwer strongly rejects the idea of partitioning Kosovo: Belgrade is blowing that idea.

The former American diplomat and connoisseur of Balkan issues have reacted sharply to a proposal in Serbia for partitioning Kosovo. Serwer has called it shy that a proposal to grant Serbia the 4 northern municipalities of Kosovo comes from aspiring European and pro-NATO ideas. Moreover, he has said that the director [...]
“I tried not to waste time to comment on CEAS' call for the partition of Kosovo and their ironic report, titled West Side Story. But the idea of separation seems to never die” wrote Serwer on his blog. He has directly charged Belgrade that he is inflating the idea.
Serwer has reacted against partition even after US Ambassador to Pristina Greg Dealwi's statements saying it hasn't changed the American position, but after that it has stressed that several “friends of mine have told me that something is getting caught”
Later, commenting on the proposal that this is an apparent attempt to satisfy the West in relation to Vucinqi by leaving it in the hands of “NATO is to lead the effort to give it northern Kosovo as a compensation for normalising reports with Pristina”
Former US diplomat this document presented in Belgrade calls it a non-merital and strategicly failed conflict
He later finds that the Serbian proposal envisions only the incorporation of northern Mitrovica, Zvecan, Zubin Potok and Leposaviqi in Serbia, with no exchange for Albanian-populated parts in southern Serbia.
Further commenting on Kosovo's inexplicable territorial division proposal described as a “Small Conception to authorities” in Belgrade, according to Sererer CEAS is unclear what Kosovo would get behind.
Serwer says Putin would use the “correction of the border as an argument that would justify annexing the Crimea, as if it used Kosovo earlier for what it did.
The Serbian proposal, according to Serwer, ignores geopolitical risks that are evolved with the proposal for partitioning Kosovo, claiming they are small.
“also offers no discussion about the possibility of Republika Srpska following the example of northern Kosovo declaring independence, nor the possibility that Albanian nationalists pursue Serbs living in the southern part of the Iber River and thus creating conditions for the formation of major Kosovo or Greater Albania, then implications in Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia or Moldova, and Transdnjest, the consequences in the crimes, Donetst and Luhansk of Ukraine” he writes.
The “could go further to the ground on Iraqi or Tibetite plots, but that is enough to make it known that NATO will take this proposal only as an attempt to please Vuciqi “.
He then hits the designers of the proposal.
The “is a sign of weakness and despair for those who need NATO in Serbia to come up with a poorly thought proposal. So let me help you” writes Serwer.
The former diplomat argues by providing a series of reasons why Kosovo's partition will not occur.
Only those who are sovereign can share territory. Serbia must recognise and establish diplomatic relations before Kosovo and Pristina can negotiate any border change. That's something President Thaci and Vuchy know. Pristina will not agree without taking the Albanians of southern Serbia as a fugitive. Whatever separation, with or without exchange, would endanger Serbs and religious monuments in the south of Ibri. Countries that have recognised Kosovo's independence would object to such a exchange because of the danger the Serb community could face and religious monuments in general, and because of the irredentist consequences in Bosnia, Albania and Macedonia and Russian aggression in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. West Side Story is a shameful attempt to introduce it NATO would undermine NATO's cohesion and introduce the Balkans and countries beyond once again into ethnic nationalist chaos. No thanks” he points out.












