Serbia has rejected EU-brokered plan to tackle the ethnic partition of its former province Kosovo.
It is believed that it would jeopardise Serbia’s hopes of starting membership talks with the EU.
Serbia said the plan is unacceptable because it does not give more autonomy to minority ethnic Serbs in Kosovo who together with Serbia reject Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence.
While some 90 countries including the United States and most EU nations have recognized Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence, it has been rejected by Serbia and its Slavic ally Russia.
The stumbling block in the talks was a Serbian demand that ethnic Serbs, who represent about 10 per cent of Kosovo’s 2 million people, have their own judiciary and police force. But Kosovo officials have rejected that, saying it would be tantamount to a division of Kosovo into two separate entities.
It is believed that it would jeopardise Serbia’s hopes of starting membership talks with the EU.
Serbia said the plan is unacceptable because it does not give more autonomy to minority ethnic Serbs in Kosovo who together with Serbia reject Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence.
While some 90 countries including the United States and most EU nations have recognized Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence, it has been rejected by Serbia and its Slavic ally Russia.
The stumbling block in the talks was a Serbian demand that ethnic Serbs, who represent about 10 per cent of Kosovo’s 2 million people, have their own judiciary and police force. But Kosovo officials have rejected that, saying it would be tantamount to a division of Kosovo into two separate entities.
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