Is compromise between Belgrade and Pristina with respect to the final status of Kosovo possible?
Serbian Side Willing To Compromise, Albanians Insist On Independence Danas, Belgrade, Serbia, Serbia-Montenegro, May 7, 2005 Omer Karabeg: Our collocutors are Lutfi Haziri, Kosovo minister for local self-government, and Dusan Prorokovic, chairman of the Serbian Assembly’s Council for Kosovo and Metohija. Both Belgrade and Pristina have defined their positions with respect to the final status of Kosovo. Pristina favors the independence of Kosovo, while Belgrade is proposing the formula of ‘more than independence, less than autonomy’. Mr. Prorokovic, what does your concept, in fact, mean? Dusan Prorokovic: This formula is, in fact, a framework for negotiations in which the Serbian side will have to make concessions to the Albanian side, and the Albanian side will have to accept something that it has no intention of accepting at this point. In essence this means a great degree of autonomy for the Kosovo Albanians. Perhaps all this would be somewhat like The Republic of Srpska within the f
