Future Kosovo Status – Precedent or Universal Solution
Future Kosovo Status – Precedent or Universal Solution

Summary/Abstract: There is no doubt that the final status decision for Kosovo and Metohija will substantially influence the security situation in the whole of South East Europe. One of the arguments invoked by the Serbian team in the status negotiations is that a possible independence of Kosovo would have far-reaching (negative) consequences. The Serbian prime minister warns that the status decision that is not acceptable to all parties threatens to “create a precedent for changing the borders, which the ethnic minorities with territorial pretensions could invoke in future”. The Russian president Vladimir Putin opposing the imposition of a solution to either of the conflicting parties simultaneously stresses that Russia insists on a universal answer applicable to all similar situations. “If someone thinks that Kosovo can be granted full independence as a state, then why should the Abkhaz or the South-Ossetian peoples not also have the right to statehood?”[...]

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