Wishes

Ok, Belgrade still hasn't officially asked for partition, but I still believe they will do so as a reaction to the imposition of the "agreement" coming out of Vienna. The jewel below is one of the many major changes requested by Serb negotiating team at the "adjustment round" of talks:

The Belgrade team also proposed the deletion of the article which states that “all citizens of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, who lived in Kosovo-Metohija until January 1, 1998, and their direct descendant, be allowed to get the right to the citizenship of Kosovo regardless of their current place of residence and other citizenship they may have.”

B92 - News - Politics - Belgrade proposes autonomy in amendments

But on this round Albanians had something to hit back with: the division of wealth of former Yugoslavia. Kosovo by the 1974 constitution was an equal economic partner to the other members of the Federation. Prishtina would like to pay up the debt that can be traced to its institutions (under Belgrade stewardship since the abolition of autonomy ) if it also gets to share the communal wealth of ex-Yugoslavia. Serbia has agreed to only one of them; I'll let you guess which one. Prishtina says that they will pursue this issue beyond status talks.

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