a Kosovo-Serbia peace settlement
| Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Emmanuel Macron of France met the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia in Berlin to normalize relations between the two countries, 20 years after a war between them ended. |
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| President Hashim Thaci of Kosovo and his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, suggested at a meeting in August that a final peace settlement could include an exchange of territory and border changes. But Kosovo’s prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj, is adamantly opposed. |
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| Perspective: The proposals are profoundly unpopular both with Serbs, who consider Kosovo part of Serbia, and Kosovars, who consider the plan a partition along ethnic lines. |
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“These two leaders are leaders of the past,” a policy research director said.
