Just a guess.
At any rate, the majority of the remaining Serbs aren't in Mitrovica and its environs - they're still in various enclaves south of the Ibar, and the possibility of a partition of Kosovo has been taken unambiguously off of the table by those making the seating arrangements.
The Contact Group Guiding Principles of November 2005 make clear that there should be: no return of Kosovo to the pre-1999 situation, no partition of Kosovo, and no union of Kosovo with any or part of another country. source
As far as I'm concerned, if the Serbs and K-Albanians can work something out amongst themselves that they can both live with, more power to 'em.
Your guess is good, but it doesn't make any sense. Those folks are not Madisonian pluralists, and don't like each other. The serbs in the yellow areas up north if Kosovo goes independent will probably decamp in a panic.
Actually about 80% of the remaining Serbs are in those three yellow cantons, and have tended to aggregate there. The Serb population there has gone up quite a bit, and the Albanian poulation has disappeared. About 50,000 serbs live in those three cantons, and I suspect about 25,000 are scattered elsewhere.
"As far as I'm concerned, if the Serbs and K-Albanians can work something out amongst themselves that they can both live with, more power to 'em."
***That has been one of the problems since the beginning in 1999 to present. They have tried, but the UN has very skillfully circumvented any effort in order for it to justify it's deployment in Kosovo. The UN has close links with Albanian Mafia clan leaders taking UN money and percentages....from false housing funds, projects, programs that don't exist, and allowing the Albanian extremist to murder Serbs and not get caught or released after a period of time........IF caught. A very well planned agenda.
