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| Aleksandar Vučić and Ivica Dacic, TV screenshot |
The Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday that Belgrade's formal proposal to resolve the Kosovo issue, is, the border between Serbs and Albanians.
He made these comments in Belgrade during a conference on the future of Europe and the Balkans, pointing out that "the question of where the dividing line would stretch is not defined" and that this idea of the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is not elaborated during the mediated talks by the European Union."When he (Aleksandar Vučić) began talking about this, to set the border, everyone attacked him. Since now there have been only two options: either Kosovo is a province, or an independent state. We haven't talked for enything else" he said, underlining that this is the best opportunity for resolving the Kosovo issue.
Asked later during the day on this Foreign Minister's stance, the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic stressed that he gave such an idea two years ago.
The possibility that the borders of Kosovo and Serbia become part of a process of negotiations for the normalization of the relations between the two sides emerged in the Summer of last year by the Serbian President Alaksandr Vucic and his Kosovar counterpart Hashim Thaci. While the Serbian president talks about border setting, meaning the abolition of northern Kosovo inhabited by Serb majority and their unification with Serbia, President Thaçi is committed to "border correction".
At the beginning of February, he said in an interview to Voice of America that "it would be very logical to include Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac in the territory of the Republic of Kosovo without violating in any circumstances the resources of the state of Kosovo, neither Gazivoda, neither the north of Mitrovica nor Trepça nor other areas ".
These border-change ideas have sparked controversy in Kosovo, and most prominent is the Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, who rejects categorically.
These Ideas have prompted mixed reactions also on the international scene. Germany leads as opposed to such ideas that, according to it, may trigger chain reactions in the Balkan region, which has not yet recovered from the bloody wars of the last century.
The United States says both sides need to reach a normalization agreement, which "basically should have the mutual recognition".
But the negotiating process that would lead to an agreement was suspended because Belgrade condition their continuation with the abolition of the tariffs on Serbian goods that Kosovo government imposed in November last year.