The Challenges of Border Demarcation Kosovo-Macedonia

The article is based on border demarcation between the two new countries in the Balkans. The author of this article is a direct participant of demarcation researches, in confrontation with many different challenges but at the same time trying to solve acceptable solutions for the both side. Determination of territories at any level has always shown special challenges. After the World War II and colonization many unclosed cases had remained related to states ’ territorial determination. Even in undeveloped continents such in Africa, Asia and in Latin America in the second part of XX century new territorial determinations were done. There are more than hundreds of unclosed border cases between different states around the world. The main factor that affects changes in territorial determination is the different natural resources as a very important source in economical development. New born countries need new demarcation with unique specifications. These specifications are directly related with states ’ creating factors, with diplomatic inter-state relations and with the local factor. Border determination process has four specific phases. The border between Kosovo and Macedonia has an interesting specific, where the delineation of Kosovo’s border in 2001 was done by other teams without the presence o