“EVERY idiot with a map and rifle is getting excited,” says an international official in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, still barred from membership of the United Nations ten years after it unilaterally declared independence from Serbia. Serbs and Albanians have been transfixed as their leaders have recently discussed swapping pieces of territory populated by tens of thousands of people. It is an idea that is raising hopes and fears across the Balkans and provoking political turmoil in Kosovo itself.
Plans for land swaps in Kosovo and Serbia run into the ground (The Economist)
- Published: 6 years ago on 18/09/2018
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- Last Modified: September 18, 2018 @ 10:15 am
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