New term introduced to story of untangling "Kosovo knot"
In some interpretations, a synonym was used - "drag out" - all while referring to the deadline for reaching an agreement between Belgrade and Pristina.
After assuming the office of president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic announced that his main goal was to solve the "Kosovo knot." In this light, talks under the auspices of Brussels had been intensified, and in recent months things seemed to have entered the "home stretch. "
The Serbian leader even announced his "first big address to the people" - but then the latter events, at least as far as the masses can see, moved the negotiating sides farther apart and brought the situation almost to a deadlock.
The main negotiators, the two presidents - Vucic and Hashim Thaci - in a number of media appearances spoke in favor of a solution hidden somewhere between "delimitation," "land swap," something else...
This idea was met in Belgrade with divided reactions, so political figures close to Vucic started wholeheartedly offering their support, while parts of the opposition, primarily the People's Party (NS), and then the newly formed Alliance for Serbia, remained of the view that it would be a step towards the final separation of Kosovo and Metohija from central Serbia.
A part of the Serbian Orthodox Church was also significantly and loudly involved in the polemic, above all the eparchy of the Diocese of Raska and Prizren.
On the other hand, the president of the self-proclaimed state and the chief of the provisional institutions in Pristina faced a significantly greater resistance to this plan. However, as things stand now, it seems that this resistance was unnecessary.
Paradoxically, a voice from Berlin that "there will be no border changes" seemingly...
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