Kosovo committed for dialogue, final agreement with Serbia

According to them, recent developments should not affect this process, while insisting that the process of dialogue also move towards the closing phase.

Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister in the Government of Kosovo Anton Berisha told Radio Free Europe that dialogue with Serbia should be stable and that this process should have an epilogue.

“As far as dialogue is concerned, the prime minister has clarified, which we want a dialogue in which there are concrete results and that Kosovo cannot develop dialogue in the sense that it is not a state, and dialogue must have epilog recognition of the state of Kosovo”, Berisha said.

“Dialogue will be stable if Serbia aims to integrate into the European Union. Serbia cannot develop conflicting policies such as so far, on one side covered through dialogue, and on the other side be destructive, as has happened so far”, Berisha said.

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has recently declared that the new government delegation for talks with Serbia has been informed by the European Union of the current state of the dialogue process, and that according to him, the agreements reached are in the interest of the country and citizens.

On the other hand, political analyst Ramush Tahiri considers that dialogue has no alternative, and that according to him, it is the only way to resolve issues between Kosovo and Serbia.

“Dialog is in the interest of both peoples and two states. If there had been any possibility that Kosovo as a new state would resolve these issues, which we rightly consider as internal issues, its institutions would have resolved over time. Therefore, the EU has undertaken initiative to facilitate this dialogue”, Tahiri said.

He thinks that despite the dialogue between the parties that has started for years and is slowly developing, he is producing results.

The “Dialogue will be stable anyway, as it will be slow and will end with normalising relations between these two states, resolving concrete questions”, Tahiri said.

Officials in the Government of Kosovo say they are waiting for the European Union to set the date when the next meeting in Brussels will take place.

Dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia on technical issues began in March 2011, for the first time after Kosovo's declaration of independence in 2008.