Kosovo diplomacy fails to bring new recognitions

In February of last year, Kosovo was recognised by Bangladesh, which coincided with the time when with the Government of Kosovo led Isa Mustafa, as the second recognition came in the 100-day end of the government led by Ramush Haradinaj, where in November, Kosovo was recognised by Madagascar.

Dardan Abazi, by the Institute for Development Policy - INDEP, says that for a new state like Kosovo it is important to have a well-organised, developed diplomacy, which has a long-term concept and programme and an agreed internal consensus.

According to him, these have been missing the Government of Kosovo and the Foreign Ministry in the first 100 days. He said there has been little diplomacy, although there have been several meetings and visits that have been held on the part of the prime minister, but also on the part of Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli.

There's been a fallingout of recognition, unfortunately, knowledge from Madagascar has broken this silence in the sense of recognition, but they're not the number we've been waiting for and we wanted to have. I think the assessment of whether we can say we have a government failure in terms of recognition I think is”, he said, for cosovapress.

While politicalologist Gura Red, Red, has said it is not that there is little recognition of the state of Kosovo, but that Kosovo diplomacy should focus on gaining quality recognition.

If we really had all these quality recognitions we would be in the UN today. While the issue that we have now seen that as long as it was consolidated some of the recognitions by friendly states that achieved its goal, not that Kosovo was consolidated, then this diplomatic part that was left in Kosovo's hand could not do anything, nor can it do in the future because we have an unfunctioning diplomacy, is a dead diplomacy simply to say”, he stressed.

In addition, Red says Kosovo should know to maintain relations with those states that have recognised it.

We have only a few embassies and consulates in different countries today, and in most countries we don't even have relations, even if we have no relations with those states, then how can we have a quality recognition with that state when we haven't secured continued diplomatic relations. Leaving these recognitions silent, not functioning these recognitions so we can have something concrete with that country that connects us to it, even twinning the municipalities then we can secure their votes on different international issues. Besides, we haven't been able to find out that when we get new recognition we make sure those recognitions don't fall prey to Serbian or Russian diplomacy, because they will always try to push these recognitions back”, he said.

Kosova Prees has tried to take a stand by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs over what they will take to lobby for Kosovo recognition from other states, but has not received answers.

Since Kosovo's independence on February 17th 2008, Kosovo's citizenship has recognised 115 states, while Kosovo continues not to be recognised by the five European Union member states.