Daily: Special status for three N. Kosovo municipalities

The international community may grant a special status to three northern Kosovo municipalities, Priština-based Albanian language daily Koha Ditore writes.

Izvor: Tanjug

Sunday, 07.08.2011.

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The international community may grant a special status to three northern Kosovo municipalities, Pristina-based Albanian language daily Koha Ditore writes. According to Koha Ditore, those three municipalities are Zubin Potok, Leposavic and Zvecan. Daily: Special status for three N. Kosovo municipalities Representatives “of state institutions in Kosovo” expect such outcome, not ruling out the possibility that a proposal for “substantial autonomy for the north” might soon go public at the initiative of the international community, the daily said. “International friends believe that to integrate the north is mission impossible, given the fact that they have been trying that for 12 years. Therefore, in order to avoid armed conflict, they see giving that region a special status as the only long-term solution,” a source told Koha Ditore. The daily’s source said that the international factors believed this was the only way Kosovo could preserve its current borders. “The idea of the international community is that the northern municipalities get recognized as separate units that will have powers in government and finance,” a senior Kosovo official said. He, however, added that Kosovo authorities had not given any signal that they might find the proposal acceptable. “The package offered by former UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Martti Ahtisaari remains the highest bid the Serbs living in Kosovo can hope for,” the source pointed out.

Daily: Special status for three N. Kosovo municipalities

Representatives “of state institutions in Kosovo” expect such outcome, not ruling out the possibility that a proposal for “substantial autonomy for the north” might soon go public at the initiative of the international community, the daily said.

“International friends believe that to integrate the north is mission impossible, given the fact that they have been trying that for 12 years. Therefore, in order to avoid armed conflict, they see giving that region a special status as the only long-term solution,” a source told Koha Ditore.

The daily’s source said that the international factors believed this was the only way Kosovo could preserve its current borders.

“The idea of the international community is that the northern municipalities get recognized as separate units that will have powers in government and finance,” a senior Kosovo official said.

He, however, added that Kosovo authorities had not given any signal that they might find the proposal acceptable.

“The package offered by former UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Martti Ahtisaari remains the highest bid the Serbs living in Kosovo can hope for,” the source pointed out.

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