The decisive break with more than a decade of war and confrontation came in December 2012, when Kosovo and Serbia began to implement an agreement on border control. The April agreement goes further by establishing a power-sharing arrangement in northern Kosovo that is designed to bolster local self-government through an association of Serb-majority municipalities while providing new arrangements for policing and the judiciary.
与十多年来的战争和冲突的决定性告别发生于2012年12月。当时，科索沃和塞尔维亚开始执行边境控制协议。4月协议更进一步，建立了科索沃北部的权力共享安排，该安排的初衷是为了通过塞族多数城市联合体增强地方自治，同时提供新的治理和司法安排。