Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic has announced that his government will reject a demanded EU proposal for the recognition of Kosovar independence, saying they cannot accept the deal without any specific promises of protection for ethnic Serbs living in Kosovo.
The EU has given Serbia a deadline for today to accept Kosovo as part of its accession into the union, but after last week’s talks failed no deal was possible. Serbia says it wants an “urgent resumption” of talks on the matter.
Kosovo was part of Serbia until a 1999 NATO invasion, after which NATO announced Kosovo would be independently managed. The new government is dominated by ethnic Albanians in southern Kosovo, who are at odds with the ethnic Serbs in the north, who never wanted to leave Serbia in the first place and are now angry that they are barred from trading with and traveling to nearby towns across the border.
The EU has been of the attitude that the ethnic Serb’s opposition to being part of Kosovo is irrelevant, and that the borders that NATO set in 1999 are eternal and non-negotiable. The Kosovo government has taken a dim view of any attempts by Kosovar Serbs to trade with Serbia, and have sought to militarize the border and shut all the highways in the region.
Serbia pushed a compromise at last week’s conference wherein the border would remain unchanged but the Kosovar Serbs would enjoy an Iraqi Kurdistan style level of autonomy. With the EU’s deadline close, the Kosovo government rejected any compromise out of hand and demanded the Serbs accept the situation unconditionally.
It makes sense that Serbs who feel threatened should have protections.
What's ok for 99% of the EU, apparently is not sustainable nor viable to do so with regards to Kosovo. If the EU or the QUINT had wanted meaningful peace and stability, I don't think that we would be in this current situation now. What's wrong with a system such as that in Scotland, having worked in the Scottish legal and government service, it would not present problems for the Serbs to have their own infrastructure.
I'm aghast at the lack of questioning in the gerneral media with regards to WHY Serbia has refused the proposal, why is security and safety such an issue for the Serbs? I know that most western media outlets have lost their integrity a long time ago, but still I feel at a loss. The Serbs are still losing the media battle, not willing or unable to present their case.
Unbelievable what titles you can find here !
Serbia Rejects ???
NATO in Kosovo peace neogotiations did garantee that Kosovo remains part of Serbia !
Why THEY are now rejecting this?
The world is turned upside down here – as always.
Why instead of securing a peaceful living together in Serbia's Kosovo the terrorist drug mafia of Kosovo has been given the police status instead of disarming the Kosovo.
Why under the eyes of NATO troops Serbian, Roma and ohter ethnic minorieties where driven out of Kosovo?
Only to get a drug mafia state to distribute US Afghanistan drugs worldwide in diplomaic luggage?
Well, you did provide the answer in your last sentence. As Afghanistan under NATO increased its opium production, as well as heroin labs — where do all those drugs go? Fifty billion dollars worth of trade? Now, those drugs cannot get out the land route in Afghanistan, as there are very few roads for car traffic, and this kind of trade has too much volume for donkey traffic over high mountains to Central Asia. Afghanistan was the first country to recognize "independent" Kosovo. It is a very simple thing to get the drugs to Pristina, and then through non-existing border to Albania — and then via friendly seas to all parts of Europe and beyond.
Afghanistan is an occupied country. First should free itself from the war criminals and then talk. I am sur ethe Taleban, US pawns, who are supported by the Saudi Arabia, the most reactionary country and in bed with Israel and US , will recognize Kosovo because Saudi Arabia as US puppet does. So, the reason behind Afghanistan supporting Kosovo's independence is: US orders its puppets —- Saudi Arabia follows US order supporting Kosovo as indep. state so Taliban who are funded by Saudi Arabia to help US geopolitical interest meaning. Shame on them all.
Why the Arab Journalists NEVER exposes the eactionary and terrorist state of Saudi Arabia? Any Arab journalist or intellectual who does not exposes terrorist state of Saudi Arabia that is funding the terrorists in Syria against Assad will have NO CREDIBILITY.
{Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic has announced that his government will reject a demanded EU proposal }
Good for you. Serbia SHOULD NOT RECOGNIZE Kosovo as an independent state. The war criminals in Clinton administration killed thousands of people to partition the country and create a phony country with 2 millions people putting mafia and Organ sellers, like the Israelis, in the position of power to serve US geopolitical interest. This plan was extended to Iraq, Libay, Sudan and now Syria while Israel using genocide to steal more land to fulfil its expansionist policy with the support of thugs in Washington.
The serbs must tell EU, the petty servant of zionism and imperalism, GO TO HELL. We do not want microscopic countries to serve the interest of the our common enemy, the war criminals. These war criminals have done the same at the time of WWI, and WWII to partition the Arab land to create Israel and microscopic Arab states where all are nothing but petty servant of US and the West supporting the war crimes of US/Israel and fund their wars.
Very typical EU negotiations. Obviously, both Serbia and Kosovo are getting very good at playing the "EU game". A good start to future EU membership.
Indeed, so much so that other countries have become part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, to protect themselves from NATO and the EU.
What country would give up part of their country at the request of 80 some who would never give up anything.
If you intended your statement as a question then the answer is – Serbia!