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. tensions between serbia and kosovo intensify triggered by a dispute over car license plates. it's led to road blocks armed, attacked and delayed local elections. what's the bigger issue at play here and can the 2 sides find a way, ford this is inside story. ah hello there and welcome to the program. i'm laura kyle: what appears to be as simple to speak about car license plates has amplified

already strained relations between serbia and kosovo. the european union is urging all parties to de escalate because of i used to be part of serbia, but ethnic albanians make up 92 percent of the 1800000 people who live there around 6 percent an ethnic sub. and they say they've been marginalized subs, began blocking border crossings on saturday of the arrest of a former policeman. he was one of the $600.00 officers who resigned last month in protest against cost those plans to ban serbian license plates. cbs president, alexander bridget, blames cost of a for provoking the situation was hold on a sudden it too, was more to lose faith was tell me more about training. today at the meeting, we discuss what we have to do with what is important is that we appeal to albanians and to serbs will to preserve peace to calm the situation. i appeal to serbs in northern kosovo and moto, here to be calm and not to fall for provocations. mutiny our correspondent organs

are its reports from belgrade. served from course, of course north are still blocking main roads in the region, using trucks, buses, and heavy machinery. in the same time, cost of police is keeping close. the 2 main border crossing between goes north in serbia. tangents are very high and the schools the northern course of all do, they are closed. here in belgrade, serbia and national security council held a crisis session, but the president of serbia, alexander voltage, declined to elaborate on the adopted steps. he said his sad that serbia demands the release of all serbs, or as the bike or civil police service blocked the main road on saturday after the rest of the former 3rd policeman. course of police later came on their small arms firing several locations and the stun grenade was thrown at a car of the un mission impossible. but there were no injuries reported voltage claims. the serbia seeks to the fuse tangents and underlines the cost of

a service must not engage in while is against nato troops and members of the european union mission. they're, you, united states and nato at 4 trains of both parties and demanded the removal of barricades. so that the belgrade in pristina can continue further work on a solution for the normalization of relations of serbia and his former province. that the independence in 2008 all he was already in belgrade for inside story. our customers primary, alan kersey accuser, serbia of trying to destabilize the region. he's asked nato to stepan. mccarthy. bloomfield avenue. we call once again on the nato, a peacekeeping mission in kosovo, to guarantee freedom of movement. the peacekeeping mission in kosovo is supposed to create a calm and safe environment, which also means to have freedom of movement. the blocking of public roads with

heavy machinery by criminal gangs. that shows and police officers is not exhibited will, and should not be repeated again in the future. we are waiting. no vixen or kosovo, declared independence from serbia in 2008, 10 years after a war killed at least, 13000 people, the u. f. and major e u countries recognized customers break away, but serbia refuses to do so. cost of a membership of the u. n. is blocked by serbia's ally, russia. around $4000.00 nato peacekeepers remain on the ground of the alliance, intervene to end the conflict. in 1999, he you began sponsoring talks between the 2 sides in 2013 barts. they've made a little progress. resolve in the conflict is one of the main conditions for both countries to join the block. ah, well let's bring in our guests to day. and joining us from christina is jamal red jar, chairman of the board of association of journalists,

of kosovo. in belgrade we have dark ho, try front of edge, director of the institute for national and international security, and in new york, david l. phillips, director of the program on peace building and rights at columbia university of a warm welcome to all of you. a to my let's start with what's been happening in northern cost. those a lot of tension that's being building up. what's the situation at the moment? thank you for having me, laura. as we speak, the 3rd day that the serbs have barricaded that role that leads to to cross borders between cross border between coastal on serbia and they have set up down. some mandate is date off at schools. so hundreds of local serves have overnight dance as well. you know, just to protect the rest of the police officer who goes to government says it's responsible for an attack of happened during the weekend at the office is

a local election committee, which was bailey and everything for the 18th of december actions in better order. bobby's in the not of course, we were possible due process of search. this iteration is about and we call but had to subscribe to the part that was wrong when we spoke. and then today i'm not going to was visiting the, the sides of the barricade and he said that the local search and ready to stay there as long as it takes until this when we pull this up. so that is released is one of our unknown because of the blocking of the roles. he wasn't able to be brought to the station in rita by police. so he's being, however, for $40.00 now at the border. ok,

a doctor called the course of a prime minister. it's on a pretty fed up with a situation as saying that the once they tow peacekeeping make a lead peacekeeping forces to remove the barricade subs have set out. but how is that, like you to further exacerbate the situation? well, i didn't could that did feel just to increase the l. a level of wayland, but let's come back to the origin of the, of the problem 8. so basically diesel bristle apiece accord. and the refusal of her, i'll thought it is interesting or to implement a sweet schooler, a society of the serbian municipality. so that is the corner of the, of the problem. and i hope that we will had a more diplomacy in the future. and you can see now the consequence of the luck of international community, particularly european union negotiators to bring 2 sites from the table. and to clearly said to clearly stated who actually did not feel full bristle

a piece of court and then didn't have much more clear situation. obviously, every once leaving in a balcony, her meter feast, we need prosperity. we need the integration scenario and everything. and the most difficult efficient arise when we don't know each other is kind of the connections between bellville and christian academics, i scientific and many other connections that are breaking up and we hope in the future that we do have a better situation there. ok, are you bronze out as the discussion quite significantly there, but before we do get to those bigger, broad brush issues, darker, what is the situation exactly right now, why i serve ethnic serbs in northern cost of i so unhappy because her piston did not implement fully bristled piece of code and the christian i did not to organize and allow the society of serbian, we see polity and the, the sanger international contract. but they said this is a not allowed by course of course a lot. and this is a very good,

problematic because international obligations is about any national. so over you see there is a but a so far from the syrian site that is exactly what i learned from our, our serbian philips in the northern northern coastal world. that there is no a society of serbian communities that mr. could t and a government in pristine or will not do duties for that is the main reasons for revelation and protest. ok, david, do you agree with that? you know, the bigger command commands on there at lake missouri bids so, ah, let's see, with the causal side of it. if i cancel the latest router, some sort of begun are in the september 1 possible government decided that they had to switch from what casa government deems legal car plate, which are issued by serbia. and we have to have new license plate which are issued by offer. this is christina, it was obviously

a possible isn't in the balance with its borders and the revolving here. so government claims should have the same car to place this car place people in northern, of coastal were using for this 20 years, were, were issued by annual service time resume. actually they build the names of cars like come up for me to a visa for mission and others and are a sign of a severe ruse in kosovo during the night. so it was a greeting process as well, but process so be i didn't and didn't want to implement as part of the agreement including the i d, 's o. so the service have to have it there in right. these which automates costello issued by cost la $30.00 so a deal was reached because every time in kosovo been in grocery or you would have a special sheet of paper in which to be able to but they don't recognize kosovo. so you could only enter instead of be over there. so crossover wanted to do the same

for surveyor visitors coming to crossover by the way, agreed that no part will know stage sheet of paper. but then the car plate was something that sort of polls. they don't want to have their cars with coastal state of course of the size. so if the manner to kosovo kind of a government saying that they really should. fines that will confiscate the cars. but then after international pressure, kosovo gave up, and it will spawn indefinitely. looser, are still able to have those, those cars, ok, and then all, now just a to let me know we've got the license plate issue. and i want to get an idea from david, what the situation really is that because at the end of november, there was an agreement that you guys came together and formed an agreement over that. so just give us an update from the outside perspective as to where we are actually at with this license plate issue. but the discussion about the

a s. m is shake news sir. kosovo is a model of minority rights through its constitution by adopting the art of sorry, principles during negotiations. what's happening here is that serbia is looking at provoke a confrontation. and it's not acting on its own serbia, as acting as a proxy of russia or by involving nato in the dispute. it's trying to broaden the conflict. we need to understand this in broader geopolitical terms. i cassava is an ally of the west. it would not exist without nader's military intervention, or russia wants to cancel that and to create a new friend, and it's confrontation with nato and metro visa as a convenient spot for escalate intentions. it's important that we step back that we

take a deep breath and we recognize that crossover is sovereign and independent. it's been recognized by more than a 100 countries. serbia needs to accept the fact that at loss because so because of its crimes. ok, and it's never going back under serbia's control. ok if we can just take okay, i'll give you a 2nd and i just want to just put this tell you the visual. assume because e r l was pretty angry with the cost of an prime minister for raising this issue, given that it is so sensitive, he was angry with him that he raised it at this time and cause these tensions. why did kosovo insist on causing these tensions? ok, it's about sovereignty in control. it's really not about license plants. serbia has consistently rejected or stonewall all the agreements that were reached through the brussels dialogue. it wants to undermine the state building project in kosovo, and it wants to give the united states

a black eye because the u. s. is the primary backer of crossovers. independence, so let's not make a mistake and focus on license plates or diplomas or area codes. this is a geopolitical struggle with serbia acting as russia agent trying to trying to don't get, i think he went to when you, you know, believe that this is a geo political struggle that this issue is about something much bigger than license plates. but do you accept that sab, as rush it back, saying as a, as a proxy for russia? yeah, but 1st of all, this kind of the, there is a, this kind of rhetorics will not bring us to this. we need the situation to come down. and if we use this as an argument, the sort of b a is a proxy of russia then, and that way costs always proxy of united states. so what we do have war, i disagree completely with this. and of course, there is nothing in bristol based support or regarding ideas and carpets.

everything started when our government, you please do not erase this issue. we doubt finalizing when you see polity or serbians of the school society of sort of your municipality. so i ask you, please come down, we need diplomacy. we don't need to do so products from ninety's and cetera, et cetera, because that will not bring us nowhere what we need. now, it's more european union presence negotiations and let's put 2 sites on the table. now let's agreed, who did not, or who feel full, but it russell's piece of course over a minute because the problem is does the subbing president agree with you? i mean, is he following that advice as well? because he's gone and a request for serbian police to be stationed in northern kosovo. he knows that that's not going to happen, but it's only going to inflate your situations. net. ok, is it lisa?

this is very simple. who started the issue with car plates and this is not, that is not even sentence what our friend from christine up a he a say a said nothing in bristol piece of court state about ivy or corporate. so it is christina, initiate it is provocative language, but i don't want to blame no one. i want, as i said, let's talk, let's agree, let's come down situation, let's not call each other us russia, whatever proxies. let's talk and find out solutions in i think we doubt this even utopian union recognize even as a special envoy of united states, a dead deal. god do i think that he also recognized that christine a did something that it should not. that's why there is a pressure on christina not to not to boys fully a decision on how to play and said throughout at the doubt,

consultation without any real agreement and set them out to you. except that it is pretty difficult for some 50000 ethnic said to live in cost of a given the history. i've lived my life in kosovo, according to the time when it was refugee as a teenager. and i was made a refugee because of us are going aggression against coastal and i've been living here close all of your neighbors for many years. we are there station which knows of kosovo. what closely with our 2nd colleagues, i notice in the bottom of what other parts of course was, was one pacifically boundaries in 2008 according to an artist, sorry. plan which was the mediator because the one sort of yeah, it took obligation to respect minority right. sidney languages are not as a language in kosovo, even though just for some of the lesson is a repetitive fights. i have been lately guarded. i've been all of this year's gone nato and by nato troops. i know there's a lot of work to do generally,

not just research about what everyone living in kosovo when it comes to economic dollars. i think this not accepting the reality, which is of course, always an independent state, makes it harder for, for service to live everything with belgrade. the fact that they are ruled here to buy a book called bar to was 96 percent of the vote. and it was a direct link with mister bush instead of react, which is dongle controverted didn't align, is foreign policy with, with you when it comes to russia, it makes it difficult to atlanta integrating costs. and david, do you think those ethics, i think cost of a being let down by serbian leaders in belgrade, more than the town they're being manipulated, their cannon fodder in a broader conflict. let's remember that mr. brewer church was melissa, which is chief propaganda. and he's now continuing the milosevic agenda to

establish a greater serbia. i see is in control of territories where serbs live today, especially with european integration. this is increasingly less important. what's important is international standards. a bill of rights, minority rights cassava is a, an example of a country which has fully embraced minority rights protections and promotions or its ethnic serbs. citizens, instead of trying to upset relations of serbia, should withdraw these barricades, kosovo serbs should find ways of interacting with their counterparts, kosovo, albanians, i'm proud of my family of sponsored a library and metro visa, where castillo serves and casa bands can come together and meet and cooperate, my teenage daughters were involved in that project. there's no reason why people

can't get along unless they're manipulated by external forces. don't care what will it take for the leaders in belgrade for sappy at to recognize cost as an independent nation agreement to 1st the whole castle was never independent. it's a sewer in part of sir, a sort of be entered, he tory and it's not on the russia, but also china locking in many european countries like spain, romania, a, cyprus, greece. they normally recognize coastal independence of the doubts, but your agreement it's silvia. so if he talk, if he talk about the background on politicians, so he can talk about, i didn't demantzy who was a speech or the father of, i've been put t in ogden. the much is the russian spy. he passed away. he was spiritually father of. i'd been good, so if he talk about the background in past, if you not bring us nowhere. so elaine laval at the same, what feelings and he got to morrow thing. i mean i'm fine with that. he

could, i thought it is of these are the thought is planning to distinguish because from he was ok, will never, never believe that. well, i thought a thinking, i think, what kinds of bus darker, what this year, what needs to happen for a final agreement to occur between kosovo and serbia because that's the only solution that is going to work here that's going to end 20 years of conflict. so at least in a has to feel full international obligations. that means create creation of a society of sylvia when you see and that's it. and so we have outdoor numbers of ice dead. sabean, melissa palatas, and northern casa i. it is not cosello's causal association of so being municipalities. it is an agreement that was signed back in 2013 by

casa and soviet russel's. but in 2016, there was a new agreement as well. it was taken at the constitutional court. so, because the agreement says that it should have the opinion of the constitution court, the constitutional court decided the 23 of the articles or of some 27 go against the constitution. but because of course, it said it should be created. so all this year for the discussion here was how should be graded, not to be something similar to it because of scott in our invoice here, which would make also a dysfunctional state. so that the discussion are every one knows here laura, inconceivable that we have to do, right? coastal has a good compromise in order to spinal a set of yeah, it would mean, given the greater alton to me, to cause search even greater than the one that is what i did with the i decided records, which was the basis of course, of declaring independence in 2008 in close coordination with the democratic world,

meaning u. s. r u k, a, germany and david. what's that? so actually being token to try to reach this final agreement is lasting solution is the if you ask me ok, all these countries are involved enough in making that happen. no, they're not involved enough. and the architecture of mediation, it puts the you from the center is flawed. there will be no deal between serbia and cost. so unless the us is a co chair and leading the negotiations, a set of deferring to the u. the u. s. has to step up and it needs to make its position is clear, and to not some heads together so we can get to a deal. and let me just say a word about the association of serbian municipalities. it was agreed, it should be implemented. but in this case, there should be symmetry and reciprocity in serbia and the per shabba valley where you have albanian municipalities. it too should have extensive autonomy and

cultural and political rights. the only way we're going to get to an agreement is if we see all sides compared to accommodate the demands of our citizens and move forward with the democratic and rights package. absolutely. ok. well that i'm afraid our time is up. i'm sure we will be revisiting this topic again to see the discussion moving forward. thank you very much today to all our guests for joining us, jim. all right, john dock. i tried front of it and david l. phillips and thank you too for watching . you can see the program again any time by visiting a website that's out there a dot com. and to further discussion do go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash ha inside story. it was a join the conversation on twitter handle is add a j inside story from me laura kyle and the whole team here it's bye for now.

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