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Partition of Kosovo and flag’s colours (Koha Ditore)

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KTV’s editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi writes that the Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities is not a product of Serbs but of Albanians and the international community because the Albanians, as a majority community in Kosovo, failed in providing convincing arguments for the minority communities to accept the new reality and look to Pristina instead of elsewhere. Immediately after the conflict, when Albanians gained some powers in Kosovo, they failed to behave as leaders of a modern society which assumes responsibility for all its people, says Kelmendi. Instead, non-majority communities were expelled from their properties, while there was no serious effort to gain access to the north. In this constellation, Albanian leaders agreed to let the Serbs, in areas where they made a majority, live as if part of Serbia. At the same time, the international community officials, seeing the actions of the Albanian leaders towards minority communities, encouraged Serb segregation. In addition, when Kosovo declared independence, its focus was not on economic development, rule of law, democratization, but on populist issues like the colours of the new flag. Meanwhile, Serbs used the opportunity to burn down the customs points, set up barricades and distance themselves even more from Kosovo. In the aspiration of Serbs for partition of Kosovo, the Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities is the most important step and the last chance for the Albanian leadership in Kosovo to regain what has been lost, remarks Kelmendi.

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