negotiated change of borders could normalise Kosovo- Serbia

The negotiated change of borders between Kosovo and Serbia is in line with international law and that such an act would normalise reports between the two countries.

So has stated in an interview for Radio Free Europe, professor of international relations at Oxford University, Richard Caplane.

The “The wars that destroyed the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s developed on the basis of changing borders, starting with Slovenia and Croatia with their demands that they be independent states. However, these have been unilateral changes, which were rejected by Federal authorities and two other republics -- Serbia and Montenegro. These border changes were challenged on diplomatic, legal, political and, of course, military base”.

The difference between Kosovo and Serbia today is that changing the borders under consideration would be a negotiated and subsequently peaceful change. Consensual changes are in line with international law, and that such a change has been achieved and found, for example, the breakup of Czechoslovakia in two countries: Czech and Slovakia in 1993. Consensual changes of the border were discussed (but without success) even at the conference in Yugoslavia in 1991”, he said, broadcasts Klan Kosova.