Kosovo NGO chief bemoans “trio of incomplete states”

Former leader of the Kosovo Reform Party Veton Surroi says if relations between Serbia and Kosovo don't normalize regional EU integration will be very unclear.

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Tuesday, 28.04.2009.

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Former leader of the Kosovo Reform Party Veton Surroi says if relations between Serbia and Kosovo don't normalize regional EU integration will be very unclear. After Croatian accession to the EU in two years’ time, the question of the European future of the Western Balkans will once again be an issue, said Surroi, who is now the president of a non-governmental organization called the Kosovo Foreign Policy Club. Kosovo NGO chief bemoans “trio of incomplete states” “The next decade will determine the nature of the transformation of these countries, and the European Union will also determine the nature of its approach, whether as a group, as was the case in the last wave of enlargement, or individually, one by one, as is the case with Croatia,” Surroi said. “The answer to the dilemma ‘group or individual’ will not come up on the agenda, unless the nature of the states who aspire to EU membership is cleared up. In the Western Balkans there is still a triangle of unfinished countries,” he said. “Bosnia-Herzegovina is a protectorate that is still working under a peace accord (Dayton), but not on the basis of a Constitution that was built by the will of its citizens. One part of the country, the Republic of Srpska, for the most part denies the identity of Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Surroi said. “Kosovo is an unfinished country in terms of its internal functioning (practically a divided country), and in terms of its international legitimacy,” he said. “By not recognizing Kosovo, and with its territorial pretensions towards it, Serbia is also an incomplete country in construction,” Surroi said.

Kosovo NGO chief bemoans “trio of incomplete states”

“The next decade will determine the nature of the transformation of these countries, and the European Union will also determine the nature of its approach, whether as a group, as was the case in the last wave of enlargement, or individually, one by one, as is the case with Croatia,” Surroi said.

“The answer to the dilemma ‘group or individual’ will not come up on the agenda, unless the nature of the states who aspire to EU membership is cleared up. In the Western Balkans there is still a triangle of unfinished countries,” he said.

“Bosnia-Herzegovina is a protectorate that is still working under a peace accord (Dayton), but not on the basis of a Constitution that was built by the will of its citizens. One part of the country, the Republic of Srpska, for the most part denies the identity of Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Surroi said.

“Kosovo is an unfinished country in terms of its internal functioning (practically a divided country), and in terms of its international legitimacy,” he said.

“By not recognizing Kosovo, and with its territorial pretensions towards it, Serbia is also an incomplete country in construction,” Surroi said.

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