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Nr. 131 / 11 tetor 2009

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Kosovo will remain as it is, or its northern part will return to Serbia?

In diplomacy, as in the real life, you learn more from the failures than from success. Successes will appear in retrospective,… while failures lighten the paths to be avoided (Richard Holbrooke). The rule is that during communication, the diplomatic speech might have double sense, and documents, as it is agreements, tractates, conventions etc., with implicit meaning.
Such acts offer the chance that during implementation might be acted according to ad hoc situations, so let’s not speak about implementation. We can count such cases: Good Friday Agreement, Dayton Agreement, Oher Agreement etc. The story in the Balkans has the tendency to be produced rather than consumed (Churchill). Yet, this shouldn’t be understood under the prism of the theory of the terrible simplification. The historical road from the Serbian annexation of Kosovo, from the Mirror Hall in Paris (1919), until today, resulted in today’s situation. Is Kosovo today going around or moving toward separation?
During the meetings in Wien and London and before the meeting in New York, organized by the Troika Ischingher, Kharchenko and Wisner, the opinion might be used with the taboo-theme “Kosovo’s partition”. This secessionist attack of the northern part of Kosovo is now served in gallop, in diplomacy as well as by the “opinion makers” of the influent public houses. As far as the intervention with all means to defend the “territorial integrity of Serbia” is concerned, Belgrade is cold-hot. The threat of military intervention caused a reaction of NATO representatives not only in Kosovo, but also in Bruxelles. It is strange the institutional silence of the local authorities who have the mandate for order, the KPS, counting about 8.000 police officers. Why are the KDT, as an institution for civil protection with 3.000 + 2.000 troops, or the Emergency Department, remaining in silence? I’m not mentioning the KFOR presence, there are only 600 German and American troops. High authorities of Belgrade in London said that “the importance of finding out a compromise is far more important than any other imposed solution”. This would be enduring if considered that Pristine has made the best of the compromises with the Ahtisaari document and lastly with the Tractate of Friendship and Cooperation between Kosovo and Serbia. As long as this document of the Kosovar part offers a modus Vivendi between the two states, to create a new constellation, there’s no need to make new requests of compromise suitable to both parts. Though the tractate-document (at least in Albanian language) is very explicit, it might still be room for interpretation. And if - we say “if” - there isn’t such room, than we suppose that the Serbian part will examine the document and agree to begin the compromise through this document. The tractate mentions the dispositions of the document of Ahtisaari for the protection of human rights, mutual cooperation for each one’s territorial sovereignty and integrity, the Permanent Council of Cooperation Kosovo-Serbia, etc. All these dispositions offer further explanations presenting an invention needed in the negotiation process for the future of the status of Kosovo. The compromises about the Albanian ethnic matter, even this time, as in the past, try to overlook the Kosovar consensus and the inter-Albanian compromise. What if the optimum of the Albanian request in the Balkans is broken? Then I have to remind that not only Kosovo will remain a frozen conflict, but the freeze might include a wider territory in the Balkans.
How much does this serve the Euro-Atlantic integration, peace and prosperity?
By: Albert Preknikaj

The Canon prevails over justice

01Lastly, the vice-President of the Justice High Council, Kreshnik Spahiu, during a press-conference with the presidents of the First and Second Level Courts of the country, said concerned that “the gangs cannot establish the penal processes…”, alarming that justice failed toward the well-organized crime. One of the main phenomenon evidencing this is the inability of justice over killers, who oftentimes are declared not guilty, killing then even those who reported their crime. This lack of justice caused many victims, even for ordinary disagreements. One of those who risked his life was Asllan Has Vulaj, born on April 15, 1966, from Ura e Shtrenjtë of Postrribë in Shkodra’s district. Since July 8th 2009, he is in conflict with Admir Bardhi from Shkodra. The cause of this enmity was a disagreement of the moment at the place called “Rus” in Shkoder. All started when the citizen Fatmir Ramadan Vulaj wounded the citizen Admir Bardhi. Even though Asllan has nothing to do with this, according to the Canon of Lekë Dukagjini, he is in enmity. His life, therefore, and that of his family is in danger, so that they have to live hidden. As the mayor of Postrribë, F.Shabaj, stated, neither the elders of the village, nor the state couldn’t stop the conflict in question. This is a very concerning phenomenon in North Albania, causing thousands of murders. In the place called “Kiras” there’s an entire quarter with people living hidden from 18 years, and even children cannot attend school, or play outside. They hide and are sad. This conflict, however, might bring victims, as long as the state isn’t able to prevail over the Canon, while the vice-President of the Justice High Council, Kreshnik Spahiu, says that gangs and anarchy prevail over courts, prosecution, investigatory office, everything.
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