13 minutes agoWeber: I doubt Kosovo-Serbia Agreement can be reached within 2023
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Supreme co-worker of the Council for Democratic Policy in Berlin, Bodo Weber has said that recent developments in northern Kosovo, blocking roads with barricades there by Serb groups, as well as tensions that have conveyed Kosovo- Serbia during December 2022, gives little hope that there is an atmosphere [...]
He has expressed his scepticism that within 2023 an eventual agreement can be reached, as he calls “between” based on the Franco-German plan, while the current atmosphere is, as he calls it, the hot “ ”, as a consequence of tensions in northern Kosovo.
There is always the danger of an incident in such a hot atmosphere that could then escalate things. I have to say that if an agreement is expected as it is now known, as an intermediate agreement, leading to the final one going far, until the recognition of Kosovo's independence from Belgrade then, according to me it would require a completely different preparation of the terrain in Serbia. If we compare it to today's atmosphere and official narrator, then we see exactly the opposite”, Weber said about RFE.
The websites have stressed that the eventual effort to reach an agreement that does not include mutual recognition of Kosovo-Serbia does not completely solve the problem between the two countries.
On one hand, according to him, the pending remaining mutual recognition could fuel distrust in Pristina, which the generation has been compromised by the EU and US since 2017 over the attempt to support a territorial exchange agreement between Kosovo and Serbia.
He suggests that the West should take advantage of moments expected to be created in 2023 in the geopolitical context.
The war in Ukraine is definitely not going towards Russia's targets and goals. It is not ruled out that Russia could lose the war, with serious weakening of [Russian president Vladimir] Russia. Putin. We can have a scenario in which, practically, with the loss of Putin's Russia, the West would be a much stronger position in front of Serbia, against the regime of [Serbian president Aleksandar] Vuciki and perhaps that would be a much better basis to go, not towards an intermediate agreement, but to seek a final agreement”, says Weber.
Vuciqi and perhaps that would be a much better basis to go, not towards an intermediate agreement, but to seek a final agreement”, Weber said.
