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Conflict and Renewal: Europe Transformed. Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Petritsch
Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007, 407 pp.


Chapter 8. Re-examining Kosovo's and Serbia's Future
Kosovo is Independent from Serbia, but the Conflict is Not Resolved

by Christine von Kohl


"A new international conference concerning Kosovo and Serbia should be organised in the nearest future by the EU, which is also responsible for guiding Kosovo into de facto independence. Delegations should be consti-tuted not only of the ruling political elites but also by representatives of dif-ferent groups in the respective population such as: agriculture, industry, uni-versities, law, culture, science, health, and so on. EU delegates should not be responsible for the programme of the discussions, nor should they act as equals to Serbs and Kosovo-Albanians - the delegates from EU countries should exclusively act as mediators obliged to lead the conference to a final compromise solution accepted by both sides."


Christine von Kohl is reporter on the Balkan region, editor of the Balkan anders