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An analyst at the Berlin Council for Politics and Democratization, Bodo Weber, said he expects a real restart of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina this year.
Source: Tanjug
Illustration: EPA-EFE / STRINGER
He believes that, as he said, “the final global agreement between Belgrade and Pristina will create a new Kosovo, where the Serbian and Albanian communities will initially live in peace next to each other.”
In an interview with Kosovo Online, Weber said that, for one thing, 2020 was another year lost in the dialogue, in the sense that there have been no real negotiations on a final deal for the last three and a half years.
On the other hand, 2020 was a year in which, according to Weber, “a dangerous idea of exchanging territories was definitely born”, which, in his opinion, “would only satisfy the personal interests of the two presidents and several irresponsible representatives of the West.”
Weber believes that this idea would lead to a mass exodus of Serbs south of Ibar, and that northern Kosovo and Metohija would end, as he put it, in “an autocratic Serbia with a status similar to Kurumlija.”
According to Weber, the restart of the dialogue should lead to the start of real negotiations on a global agreement based on the principles of 2014, which according to him were accepted by Belgrade in due time, that is, the time for the change of borders in the Balkans.
Weber believes that Belgrade must turn to a real policy based on the fact that, as he claims, I am largely responsible for the loss of Kosovo and that the focus of the dialogue should be on normalizing bilateral relations and providing conditions for life. normal of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija.
For Weber, the fact that Belgrade, according to the cadastre, owns 58 percent of the land in Kosovo and Metohija “speaks in the spirit that Kosovo is Serbia.”
“I believe that the original framework and principles of the negotiations have been established, including, as President Vui well knows, the recognition of Kosovo by Serbia in a long process of implementation of the final agreement that should end with the accession of Serbia to the EU “. realistic solutions for all open bilateral issues, including this one, “Weber said.
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