There should be another phase of dialogue without a new resolution from Parliament

Representatives of the Kosovo Democratic Institute have asked for it, under which there should be no other phase of dialogue without the Parliament's consultation.

These were said at the second co-ordination meeting, the Kosovo Commission for Foreign Affairs and the Democratic Institute, regarding the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue process.

Commission for Foreign Affairs Chairman Vjosa Osmani has said there is a need for a new resolution on dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia to clarify the position of the president, the prime minister in this process, and to submit red lines to this dialogue.

While praising Kosovo President Hashim Thaci's evolution in the dialogue process, despite the fact that the head of state is foreign policy leader.

I see it as disturbing not only as a political stance, but from the aspect of the foreign policy involving the president for two reasons, which are probably technical nature. The first one if the president is leading this process, we will not be able to oversee it as the Parliament. And second if agreement is reached at the level of presidents, the president has no executive email mechanisms, nor to order Government to be implemented”, Osmani stressed, the KP reported.

While, Life Krasniqi from KDI stressed that the dialogue process is among the closed process so far, as since the launch of dialogue no agreement has been discussed in advance, but only after their arrival.

Krasniqi stressed that in the third phase expected to begin very soon, the Assembly must play a more active role and that there should not be another phase of dialogue without a new Parliament resolution.

“We are entering the third phase of dialogue, we don't know how to move forward, what the dialogue themes will be like, how long this process will last, but it remains important that the Parliament has an active role, as it is mandatory to oversee the executive in fact to seek more responsibility from both the executive and the dialogue team. We know that at every stage of the dialogue before I start, a resolution has been passed in the Kosovo Assembly, which has also expressed some approval of the Parliament and legitimacy of this process. We expect such a thing will happen even now that the third phase will not start without consulting the UN”, Krasniqi said.

A new Parliament resolution on this process also called for the chairman of the European Integration Commission, Blerta Deliu-Codra, as this process was suspended at the time Haradinaj was arrested in France.

“The Parliament needs to express its will to come once through a new resolution which, of course, would have to be reached with the agreement of political parties within the Parliament, but still to reveal the will that this resolution would be achieved to turn the attention of Kosovo institutions into dialogue and agreements reached to date”, Deliu-Codra said.

Criticism to this process also featured Albulen Haxhiu, chairman of the Commission for Legislation, under which the Kosovo delegation has gone unprepared in dialogue and as a consequence have become harmful concessions for Kosovo.

She even stressed that there cannot be a new phase of dialogue without an investigation of any agreements reached so far.

This dialog process has been completely untransparent. Kosovo representatives have gone into completely unprepared dialogue, we have fresh photos that weigh us as images where Kosovo's delegation has no document ahead, while Serbia's one deng ahead. Unserious approach to dialogue with Serbia has also produced concessions at the expense of Kosovo ... We cannot enter the new phase without having an assessment of any agreements signed in Brussels. It would even be better to have a “d hoc” investigation that would assess any agreement signed in Brussels”, she stressed.

But the chairman of the Commission for Public Finance Supervision, Driton Selamayna, appreciated that a resolution should be issued immediately, since this process has slipped into purely political themes. There was also criticism of today's meeting.

You're saying you're meeting citizens, but you're saying we know about the deal, what you're dealing with citizens, tell them you don't know how you, you tell them you don't know the content of the deals. This is paradox. It's because we've been slipping from the very goal of dialogue itself, it's starting as a technical process, it's immediately immersed in political thematics and it's going on with political thematics... I think that this themis has completely slipped into the political context, but completely political deserves an immediate articulation of the Parliament with a new resolution meaning what now with this process of dialogue”, he said.

At this meeting other commission heads said they would seek responsibility for the process.