Ramush Haradinaj, Kosovo's Prime Minister, said on Wednesday there was a suspicion that Pristina, Belgrade, Tirana and Brussels debated the division of Kosovo, the Beta news agency reported.
Addressing the round table on Belgrade – Pristina dialogue on normalisation of relations under the European Union auspices, Haradinaj said the presidents of Kosovo and Serbia, Hashim Thaci and Aleksandar Vucic and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama together with the EU High Representative and the mediator of the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue Federica Mogherini, discussed how to divide Kosovo
“It's good they apologised for wasting time on that. It could have been much worse,” Haradinaj said but did not mention any source of that speculation.
He added that Kosovo did not need to open question on how it declared the independence in 2008 and which the International Justice Court ruled on.
“I guarantee you that anyone who says that border change or its correction will achieve peace should know that that does not bring peace but war and tragedy,” Haradinaj said, adding that those who advocated a deal on border changes did that deliberately to have at least two more decades of instability in the Balkans.
Late on Tuesday, Vucic said he would not recognise Kosovo within its current borders, and in the summer of 2018, he said he favoured the separation with Albanians but did not specify.
Last night he complained that public at home and the international community did not have understanding for his proposal and also refused to say what he proposed and whom to, but added it was about a just border.
Thaci's idea on border correction is the annexation of Serbia's south-western region of Presevo Valley mostly populated by ethnic Albanians, but without any territory swap in return.
Some Western politicians said they wouldn't mind any solution both Belgrade and Pristina would agree on, as long as it would be in line with the international law.
The others, mainly Germany, strongly opposed any border changes fearing the domino effect in the region.
