Serbia proposes an ethnic division of Kosovo:
BRUSSELS — Serbia on Monday formally proposed dividing newly independent Kosovo along ethnic lines, a move that was immediately rebuffed by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leadership in Pristina.
The proposal, submitted to the United Nations, is the culmination of a campaign by Serbia to entrench its political and administrative control over the northern part of Kosovo, which has a Serbian majority. Analysts said it was a largely symbolic gesture. Kosovo’s leaders have said they will not accept partition, and European countries and the United States would reject such a proposal at the United Nations Security Council.
“This proposal is a provocation from Belgrade, and we reject it 100 percent,” Kosovo’s deputy prime minister, Hajredin Kuqi, said in a telephone interview from Pristina. “We want to help create cooperation between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo — not divisions.”
The problem is that once you accept the logic of the hypernationalism that accompanied the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, where do you stop ? If the Kosovars had a right to control their own destiny and not be ruled from Belgrade, then why doesn’t the same argument apply to ethnic Serbians in northern Kosovo who don’t want to be ruled from Pristina ?
