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Kosovo Border
The week of violence and tension in the north of Kosovo left little hope for the resumption of negotiations and settling of the problems between Serbia and breakaway province, even though the Kfor troops entered the Serb-populated northern aria and the Kosovo police pulled out.
The prospect of a soon resumed round of negotiations, revived to some extend over the last weeks, after Serbia delivered the last war criminal to the international criminal tribunal for former Yugoslavia, seems shattered by this spark of ultimate violence that claimed the live of one police officer, and caused another to be wounded.
Serbian president Boris Tadic had criticized the action labeling those who used violence in the north of Kosovo as “hooligans,” and adding that this situation does not favor neither the Kosovo Albanians nor the Serbs living in the region.
In its turn, Kosovo emerged from this incident as the aggressor and is likely to have lost the support of Western countries for its self-proclaimed independence.
On the other hand, the nationalistic faction of the political landscape in Serbia are likely to apply more pressure on the government at the end of this act ordered by Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci, a man on whose head hangs an international arrest warrant issued by Serbia for the accusation of human organ trafficking.
The entire conflict was triggered by Thaci’s order to the police to occupy two border crossings in the northern part of Kosovo, where goods were introduced from Serbia to the northern community in spite of the embargo dictated by Pristina in response to the decision of Serbia not to import any goods from Kosovo that were stamped with “Republic of Kosovo.”
Hashim Thaci said that the region must come under Pristina’s authority, and its inhabitants must be taxed like all the other people in the country.
He blamed the Serbian government for attempting to organize and even for conducing the response of the angry Serbian mobs, that erected ramparts and put up a resistance that resulted in the killing of a police officer, the burning to the ground of one of the crossings, the withdrawal of the Kosovo police forces and the deployment of some 2,000 more Kfor peacekeepers in the region.
The international community, EU and NATO mainly, have severely criticized Thaci’s idea to invade the northern regions where the Serbs live, and demanded that things get back to normal immediately.
Protest in Northern Kosovo
Hashim Tachi seems persistent in his conviction that the action must not be stopped until the authority of the Kosovo republic is installed in north and is recognized by the Serbs.
The U.S. envoy to the Balkans insists that the talks between the two parts should be resumed immediately without any preconditions, and rejects the accusations formulated by the Serbian officials that the U.S. was aware of the plan of the PM to take over the crossings.
The nationalists in Serbia demand the pro-Western president Tadic to take serious action against the Kosovo police, including military action that would help protect the Serbs in the north of the province.
They also request that the bid to join the European Union be immediately renounced so that more radical action could be taken in Kosovo.
Serbia and Kosovo had a few previous attempts to engage in talks over the future of the Serbian province that proclaimed its independence in February 2008, and was recognized by some 79 states in the world.
All previous attempts to talk were failures because of the lack of serious commitment toward them.
Serbia must find a way to compromise with Kosovo if it wants its candidacy to the European Union to be admitted, especially after it succeeded in delivering all war criminals to the ICTY.
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