Take 5 min to read this thread & you’ll understand why the rose-garden treaty @WhiteHouse with land-swaps failed & why @albinkurti was right.
Those following dialogue btw https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇽🇰" title="Flagge von Kosovo" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Kosovo">&https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇷🇸" title="Flagge von Serbien" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Serbien"> know that it started after a resolution by https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇷🇸" title="Flagge von Serbien" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Serbien"> at https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇳" title="Flag of United Nations" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of United Nations"> in Sept 2010, after @CIJ_ICJ ruling in favor of https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇽🇰" title="Flagge von Kosovo" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Kosovo">
The dialogue started as technical in March 2011 but w/ agrm of Feb 2012 on Footnote; April 2013 on Association of Serb Municipalities (ASM) & Aug 2015 on a detailed ASM, it entered into deep political waters, reopening closed issues such as Kosova’s soverignty & independence.
@FedericaMog, who was acting as mediator, had agreed to this idea of land-swaps and started a campaign to convince EU member states. So, at this point, the land-swaps idea becomes an agenda which has the backing of the EU mediator.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇🏻" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (heller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (heller Hautton)"> https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_a_burning_issue_how_to_restart_the_dialogue_between_serbia_and_k">https://www.ecfr.eu/article/c...
On July 20 2018, @HashimThaciRKS for the 1st time says that Kosova is ready for a painful compromise.
This prompts a massive protest by @LVetevendosje on Sept, 2018 where close to 100.000 people protest against the idea of land-swaps. https://kosovotwopointzero.com/en/could-kosovo-and-serbia-really-exchange-territory/">https://kosovotwopointzero.com/en/could-...
On 29 April, the Berlin Summit fails to relaunch dialogue but it also brings into surface disagreement between EU & US and between Germany and France with regard to land-swap ideas. https://www.politico.eu/article/merkel-macron-balkans-serbia-kosovo/">https://www.politico.eu/article/m...
Oct. 6 elections make @albinkurti a winner & this changes all calculations & investments they made for a land-swap agrm, including a $110,000 consulting agrm btw PDK party of @HashimThaciRKS & Samuel Nunberg, a former aide to Donald Trump. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2019/10/03/nunberg-working-on-kosovo-elections-484953">https://www.politico.com/newslette...
With @albinkurti prime minister, land-swap ideas and quick deals were dead. So, @RichardGrenell and @HashimThaciRKS engaged in overthrowing the Kurti gov. to open path for their deal. Junior partner LDK, breaks under Thaci & Grenell pressure & withdraw. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/20/kosovan-acting-pm-accuses-trump-envoy-of-meddling">https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
Former Trump’s NSA @AmbJohnBolton confirms land-swaps: “In the case of https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇽🇰" title="Flagge von Kosovo" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Kosovo"> & https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇷🇸" title="Flagge von Serbien" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Serbien"> there were indications as early as 2018 that the leaders wanted to get these questions resolved…One of the things they were discussing was the possibility of a land swap…” https://exit.al/en/2020/07/05/john-bolton-kosovo-and-serbia-leaders-discussed-land-swap/">https://exit.al/en/2020/0...
So, there was no doubt that the dialogue at Washington and signing ceremony at rose-garden were to happen due to an agrm with land-swaps as pursued by two presidents. But this idea was hit once by massive protests by @LVetevendosje, then by @haradinajramush & @albinkurti as PM.
The last nail in the coffin of land-swap idea and the signing ceremony at rose-garden was given by Special Court on June 24th this year which made it impossible for @HashimThaciRKS, the main proponent of land-swap idea, to lead the meeting @WhiteHouse & deliver on his promises.
For those who say that a bad deal was not going to be signed @WhiteHouse, please read above.

If on Sept 4 we didn’t witness a rose-garden agrm, is largely bcs the idea was fiercely rejected, especially by @albinkurti

This does not mean that yesterday’s deal is good.
On the contrary, it is a bad deal & one which will hunt future governments, but the drastic mistakes were avoided and prevented.

Now we need new elections in Kosova and a new legitimate government to lead the dialogue and hopefully the #EU has learned the lesson by now.
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