Garcevic: Trump can restore Kosovo- Serbia

Vesko Garcevic, professor of International Relations at Boston University, in a proposal for Radio Free Europe On Sunday, he estimated that along with Donald Trump's return to the top of the United States of America (SHBA), the idea of exchange of territories or redefining borders between Kosovo and Serbia could also be restored.

Garcevic, former ambassador to NATO, stressed that from a second mandate of Trump, always if he wins the US presidential election in November 2024, the US cannot be expected to continue to work in synergy with the European Union (BE) in the dialogue process for normalising relations between the two hostile neighbours.

What we can expect is for the US, for example, to come up with its plan for resolving the problem between Kosovo and Serbia. One of the ideas, which was removed from the table several years ago, but can be returned to the agenda, is the territorial exchange between Kosovo and Serbia”, Garcevic considered, especially after recent developments in the Western Balkans.

In the northern part of Kosovo, mainly inhabited municipalities with ethnic Serbs try to maintain a parallel system supported and financed by Serbia, while the prospect of partitioning or exchanging territories is sometimes raised in public debates. Many Western diplomats and scholars have also provided the idea of redefining borders on ethnic lines.

The exchange of territories had highlighted former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, under the initial idea that the four municipalities in Kosovo's Serb-run north HINA Mitrovica North, Leposaviqi, Zubin Potoku Zvecani would join Serbia, while three majority Albanian municipalities in Serbia -- Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanoc -- would unite Kosovo.