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"Belgrade knows that it has crossed the red line and now it is trying to hide by any means. Where did the West go wrong"

2023-09-28 20:55:08Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"Belgrade knows that it has crossed the red line and now it is trying to
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Days after the attack by the Serbian armed group in the northern part of Kosovo, experts on the developments in the Western Balkans criticized the approach of the international community in the region and said that the space left by the lack of engagement of the West in the region, including the stagnant process of European integration, has created a suitable ground for continuous tensions.

Sonja Biserko, head of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Belgrade, has little doubt that official Belgrade is behind the attack by the Serbian armed group in the northern part of Kosovo. From the graffiti warning of the return of the Serbian army to Kosovo in the cities of Serbia to the evidence found by the authorities in Kosovo after the confrontation with the armed group, Ms. Biserko says it was clear that something was going to happen and that Belgrade is responsible. Based on the information so far, she says, it is clear that "some forces from Serbia went to Kosovo to provoke a conflict, so that the Serbian army could enter and establish the dividing line with Kosovo at the Iber River".

"Belgrade is aware that it has crossed the red line and is now trying, by any means, to reduce its role in this terrorist act," says Mrs. Biserko.

However, she also blames the West's approach to Serbia for this escalation.

Mrs. Biserko says that the international community has ignored the warnings of the leaders in Pristina because it sees Serbia as the main factor in the region and because of the Russian attack on Ukraine.

"Belgrade used the opportunity of this tolerance from the West throughout this year and a half, since the Russian aggression against Ukraine began, when the West returned to the Balkans, after almost 15 years of lack of engagement, to prevent the opening of a second front and they were hoping to bring Serbia to the West, which they have not been able to do," she says.

She adds that the region is at a critical point; the neighboring countries do not trust Serbia and that the general trend in the Western Balkans is negative.

"The whole region is convinced that Belgrade was involved in this case. And I would add that this has been Belgrade's goal for a while and it was waiting for the moment to realize this goal, in Kosovo and elsewhere. The problem of the West's policy and strategy in the region now is that because of the importance of Belgrade, which they consider as their priority, all the neighboring countries have been neglected and are being pressured to make concessions. As in Kosovo, as in Montenegro, as in Bosnia... Serbia is undermining all these states continuously, systematically," according to Ms. Biserko.

Despite the calls from Washington these days to return to the dialogue facilitated by the European Union between Kosovo and Serbia, Ms. Biserko sees his fate closely connected with the policy that the West will follow after the attack of the Serbian armed group in Kosovo. According to her, there has been no dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia since the division of Kosovo was discussed and that Serbia is now buying time for the change of political circumstances in the United States in the hope of bringing the idea of ​​division back on the agenda. The West, according to her, must change its position, now undermined, in the Western Balkans.

"If the West does not change its policy, it is difficult to imagine that this dialogue will work," she adds.

Mary Kaldor, professor at the London School of Economics and board member of the European Council for Foreign Policy, says that the commitment of the European Union and the process of integrating the Western Balkans into it was thought to be the only way out for the region.

"The process of integration in the European Union is really the only solution for the Balkans, where the issues of ethnicity and borders are transformed into issues of minorities, which presents a problem in itself and a completely different way to deal with it. But the expansion process has stopped and I think this has become a real problem, and of course it is problematic that this possibility is no longer being taken seriously," she says.

Ms. Kaldor, who co-authored the Kosovo Report, an academic effort to understand the lessons learned from the war in Kosovo and NATO's 1999 intervention, says the West has put itself in a difficult position by leaving issues unresolved in the region.

"Russia is now in a position to create a lot of trouble and is creating a lot of difficulties. We have put ourselves in a position where unfinished business, whether as a concept or as a concrete problem... continues to be a point of tension. And that can be misused,” she said.

According to her, the European Union should be seen as the only solution for the Western Balkans, but this union should completely rethink its priorities.

"It is very, very disturbing, as it is disturbing for the rest of the world, that the wars that we saw in the Balkans are now happening in other parts of the world, in Africa and the Middle East... It is my concern that we are seeing a new social condition in which crime, ethnicity and violence are becoming a long-term poisonous combination," she said. "And for the European Union to survive this poisonous combination, for this poisonous combination not to affect the European Union itself, then a value new, that thinks about this, and not in terms of reaching agreements with ethnic movements, but the social situation must be changed, which means, to think about the economic and social aspect, climate change, human rights and the ways in which justice becomes meaningful."/ VOA


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