但是，在科索沃的最终地位问题上裹足不前将会产生更为糟糕的巴尔干局势。 这一局面将会阻止塞尔维亚靠近西方并最终获得欧盟成员国资格，将科索沃的少数族裔至于危险的悬而未决的境地，并且破坏类似波斯尼亚和马其顿那些脆弱国家。
But failure to proceed definitively now on Kosovo’s final status will produce a worse Balkan situation, one that blocks Serbia’s move toward the West and ultimate membership in the EU, condemns Kosovo’s ethnic minorities to dangerous ambiguity, and imperils fragile states like Bosnia and Macedonia.