IS THERE A VIABLE SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO?
IS THERE A VIABLE SOLUTION FOR KOSOVO?

Summary/Abstract: Two years of negotiations didn’t allow to find a solution for the final status of Kosovo, a Serbian province with a majority Albanian population under UN administration since 1999. The Albanians in Kosovo have given notice of declaring their independence immediately after the 10th of December, a solution encouraged by the United States and the most of the EU states. The officials in Belgrade contest the idea of granting the independence to Kosovo promoted by the United States, and the Serbian arguments are based on the international law principles, sanctioned in the UN Charter. Russia, as the traditional ally of Serbia, supports it on its attempt to keep control over this province. However, there are increasingly more signals according to which Serbia actually is focusing on the actions it must undertake if Kosovo will unilaterally declare its independence, with the support of some Western powers. The European Ministers of Foreign Affairs are in course of assessing, at Brussels, the situation after the legislative elections in Kosovo, and requesting the leaders from Pristina not to hasten in giving an unilateral independence declaration. The last round, considered as decisive, having taken place at Baden, close to Vienna, under mediation of the troika composed of the USA, Russia and EU representatives, brought no great hopes on the future of the province.

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