After the End of the Kosovo Status Negotiation: Way to the Peaceful Dissolution?
After the End of the Kosovo Status Negotiation: Way to the Peaceful Dissolution?

Summary/Abstract: December 10 2007, a deadline for the last Kosovo status negotiation expired without an agreement between the two (Serbia and Kosovo Albanians) sides. As its known, Kosovo Albanians insist on the (internationally supervised) independence, while Serbia offers “wide autonomy”. Despite Serbia’s whishes for extending the negotiations to another round, it does not seem a realistic propose, since the EU and US refuse new negotiation round(s). The international mediator group (Troika, including the EU, US and Russia representatives), after 120 days of negotiations submitted its report to the UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon. The report says that “after the 120 days of the intensive negotiation, the parties were unable to reach an agreement on Kosovo status (…) neither party was willing to concede its position on the fundamental question of sovereignty on Kosovo”. In addition, the EU and US representatives said that effort to strike a compromise were exhausted, which means that the “west block” does not support more negotiations. On the other side Russia, the Serbia’s ally, threats that it will not approve any UN Security Council decision that gives the independence to Kosovo.

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