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A Response to the Interview with Ambassador Albert Rohan, Deputy Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Future Status Talks for Kosovo

A Response to the Interview with Ambassador Albert Rohan, Deputy Special Envoy of the United... Southeastern Europe 33 (2009) 109–118 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI 10.1163/187633309X421193 brill.nl/seeu A Response to the Interview with Ambassador Albert Rohan, Deputy Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Future Status Talks for Kosovo James Ker-Lindsay London School of Economics and Political Science Ambassador Rohan has certainly had a long and distinguished career in international diplomacy, a good portion of it focused on the Balkans. Th is makes it all the more diffi cult to understand why he handled the Kosovo status process in the way that he did. Indeed, the process he jointly oversaw with Martti Ahtisaari, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Status Talks, may well go down as one of the most shockingly one-sided mediation eff orts in modern diplomatic history. Kosovo as an Insoluble Confl ict Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the interview —in amongst many troubling aspects— is the starting premise: namely, that Kosovo was insoluble. Or, more accurately, it could not be solved in a way that could provide both sides with a solution that they might not like, but they could essentially accept. At a fundamental level, this view has profound, if not rather disturbing, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southeastern Europe Brill

A Response to the Interview with Ambassador Albert Rohan, Deputy Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Future Status Talks for Kosovo

Ker-Lindsay, James
Southeastern Europe , Volume 33 (1): 109 – Jan 1, 2009
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Southeastern Europe 33 (2009) 109–118 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI 10.1163/187633309X421193 brill.nl/seeu A Response to the Interview with Ambassador Albert Rohan, Deputy Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Future Status Talks for Kosovo James Ker-Lindsay London School of Economics and Political Science Ambassador Rohan has certainly had a long and distinguished career in international diplomacy, a good portion of it focused on the Balkans. Th is makes it all the more diffi cult to understand why he handled the Kosovo status process in the way that he did. Indeed, the process he jointly oversaw with Martti Ahtisaari, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Status Talks, may well go down as one of the most shockingly one-sided mediation eff orts in modern diplomatic history. Kosovo as an Insoluble Confl ict Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the interview —in amongst many troubling aspects— is the starting premise: namely, that Kosovo was insoluble. Or, more accurately, it could not be solved in a way that could provide both sides with a solution that they might not like, but they could essentially accept. At a fundamental level, this view has profound, if not rather disturbing,

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