Kosovo opposition wants EU to reject 'ethnic' borders
Kosovo opposition parties yesterday called on the European Union to reject "publicly and clearly" border changes with Serbia that would be made on an "ethnic basis".
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic in recent months signalled an openness to what they called "border adjustments" to resolve their longstanding difference over Kosovo's independence.
However, the two presidents have not laid out any detailed plans.
Local media report on a possible exchange of northern Kosovo, inhabited mostly by ethnic Serbs around the divided town of Mitrovica, and the Presevo valley, a majority ethnic Albanian area in southern Serbia.
But Kosovo opposition parties, in a letter to EU's diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini, labelled such plans "not only destabilising for the region as they would have a chain effect on territorial changes, but would also be unimplementable and would cause further frozen conflicts in our region".
"We expect that you will publicly and clearly reject territorial redrawing on ethnic basis between Kosovo and Serbia."
Washington and Brussels have left the door open for talks on the exchange of territory.
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