Big powers need crisis to keep Balkans on leash - analysts

AFP 2016/ ATTILA KISBENEDEK

Whatever model is offered as a platform by Belgrade to solve the decades-old Kosovo and Metohija puzzle, it will not be liked by "world powers."

The daily Vecernje Novosti writes this, adding that this is the case because bringing this painful topic to an end would mean the loss of a lot of leverage that these powers are using to try to keep Balkan nations "on a leash."

This is how analysts the newspaper spoke to interpreted the information that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's call to have a broad national dialogue on Kosovo is not looked at favorably "neither in the East nor in the West" - while maintaining the status quo was "an ideal option for them."

Aleksandar Gajic, an associate at the Institute for European Studies, told Vecernje Novosti that it is not in the interest of certain "big players" to pacify the Kosovo issue ...

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