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7 hours agoBildt: If Presevo joins Kosovo, so may Tetovo
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Former special representative of the United Nations Organisation for the Balkans, Carl Bildt, says it is illusion to think that in the Balkans there can be monoethnic states. In an interview for the German newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, Bildt has described the idea of exchanging territories between Serbia and Kosovo as impossible, as this would [...]
Former special representative of the United Nations Organisation for the Balkans, Carl Bildt, says it is illusion to think that in the Balkans there can be monoethnic states.
In an interview for the German newspaper “Frankforter Allgemaine Zeitung”, Bildt has described the idea of exchanging territories between Serbia and Kosovo as affecting tens of thousands of people.
Bildt says Kosovo does not have the political unity needed to adopt such a plan.
The political system in Kosovo is very divided, and it is difficult to approve from the Kosovo Parliament a plan involving the secession from its northern Kosovo”, he says.
Furthermore, in conditions where Washington and the European Union are partly supporting this idea, or not opposing it, Bildt says it could spur other politicians in the region to seek the creation of monoethnic states.
According to Bildt, if the idea of exchanging territories becomes reality, it will not be an isolated phenomenon.
He says that if Presheva can become part of Kosovo, the same thing may eventually require Tetovo, in Macedonia.
Bildt further states that since today's America, whose attitude for the Balkans is no longer guaranteed, such an issue will be left to Europe, which, according to him, “is fatally inactive in relation to this matter”. (TemA TV)
