What are the effects of the eventual change of the border

The defeats and unknowns, they say, continue to be even in relation to the negative consequences or the benefits that can arise if this topic is found in the Brussels dialogue and eventually if an agreement on this base is reached.

Milazim Krasniqi, chief of the Journalism Department at the University of Pristina, tells Radio Free Europe that the idea of changing the border, which by President Thaci has been promoted as “border correction”, carries a lot of burdens and problems with him.

His “this idea (President Thaci) would look national and romantic and attractive, for taking the Presevo Valley, unless accompanied by the idea of (Serbian president) Vuciqi for division or ethnic restrictions between Serbs and Albanians, and not being stimulated by international factors for exchange of”, Krasniqi said.

Politologist Ramush Tahiri, says the presidents of the two countries -- Thaci and Vuciq -- would not promote the idea of changing the border without a preliminary reconciliation of specific international factors.

As he says, the two presidents, seem to have agreed to have an ethnic definition between Kosovo and Serbia. This, according to him, means that along the border line, no Albanian majority village will remain on Serbia's territory and no Serb majority village remains on Kosovo territory.

Meanwhile, as Tahiri says, in the other six Serb majority municipalities within Kosovo, remain as they have been so far and the Association or Community of Serb Majority has been enabled.

The benefits are these: Serbia considers that there are no Albanians within its territory anymore, because it eventually resolves the issue of the Albanian minority. Kosovo considers that a righteous limit is set on ethnic principle and still remains multiethnic because enclaves and territories (resident with Serbs) within Kosovo do not move, while in the north it resolves the environmental situation with the Serb population, which listens to Belgrade and does not listen to Kosovo. The danger is that it can have an effect édominoı in Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia”, Tahiri stressed.

He added, however, that both countries -- Kosovo and Serbia -- would take over the pledge that they would not have trends, incentives or influence in neighbouring countries.

But the effect of possible implementation of the idea of changing the border between Kosovo and Serbia would be fatal for Serbs living in the southern part of the Iber River, Serbia's politician from Gracanica, Momcilo Trajkovic, estimates. He tells Radio Free Europe, that it would promote the deportation of Serbs living there, despite guarantees that can give the two countries -- Kosovo and Serbia -- but also the international community.

The “This has at the foundation shaken the position of Kosovo Serbs. No matter what guarantees there would be, irrational fears, and perhaps real fears, would cause this people to move from this space to central Serbia. It would be a major and unpredictable consequence, which is being opened to him and offered by an unwise geox1> policy, Trajkovic stressed.

But how did the idea of changing the border, which up until a few months ago was taboo, especially on international factors, come to be the topic with which it is expected to find the solution to normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia?

Professor Krasniqi, says the whole situation has a common denominator.

The international union, it seems, has come to the conclusion that the state of Kosovo is moving towards failure and that they are looking for new modalities for re-disposition, which poses tremendous risks for the very existence of the state of Kosovo. If this trend is going to stop, it's hard to predict today.

But opening up the opportunity for exchange of territories, for definition, as Vuciq says, does not go towards solving the problem. This will only jeopardise and turn the conflict into much larger size, not only in Kosovo, but perhaps even at regional size”, Krasniqi said.

Even so, politicologist Tahiri has estimated that international diplomacy respects any agreement that makes it two peoples or two states for border change, if it is done voluntarily and does not cause population evacuation, as well as if it is incompatible in the peace agreement, which paves the way for the two states to establish diplomatic relations and integrate them into international mechanisms.