Analyst: Dialogue with Serbia has damaged Kosovo

The damages for Kosovo, they say, continue to rise further due to the failure to reach even further the comprehensive agreement between the two countries.

Politologist Ramush Tahiri tells Radio Free Europe that Kosovo is losing out of the dialogue it is developing with Serbia, because the latter -- in all the official paperwork it is sending to various countries -- requires non-recognition of Kosovo's international subjectivity until a final agreement is reached.

“In Kosovo's international subjectivity, this is bringing damage, because all countries are being reserved to take strong positions for Kosovo's support in Euro-Atlantic integration and membership in international organisations, expecting the outcome, with the argument that they will not prejudge any solution. Symptomatic was the withdrawal of recognitions, although in diplomacy it is not known as such, but as freezing relations some countries are making towards Kosovo, because they are telling them that until the agreement is concluded, we will not have relations or we will freeze relations”, Tahiri stressed.

Imer Mushkolaj, political affairs analyst, speaking of Radio Free Europe, says the lack of a final and legally binding agreement between Kosovo and Serbia has created space to understand that the two countries still have open issues.

The “This could affect skeptical countries not to recognise Kosovo, for good reason, because they consider the country's status issue not closed in 2008, with its declaration of independence, but there are still problems to resolve with Serbia. This, of course, will affect this aspect and have so far impacted, given the withdrawal of recognitions from some states, which have taken place even with Serbia's major offensive against Kosovo citizenship and against its subjectivity”, Mushkolaj said.

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Recognitions of political developments estimate that Kosovo and its diplomacy have so far failed to turn the Brussels dialogue in favour of the country into an international subjectivity plan.

Politologist Tahiri says Kosovo institutions, and especially those dealing with foreign policy, have failed to make a summary document through which the history of the Kosovo issue would be explained.

“No one in the world, nor in Serbia, can think that Kosovo could turn into any conditions under Serbia é, although as such it has never been, except the violent period of Milosevici or in any form, I cannot think that Kosovo could be in a community with Serbia. That is also opposed within Serbia, within Kosovo, but also within the international community. The only possibility is the acceptance of the state of Kosovo, as a reality now established 20 years, as an expression of the will of the people and as a factor of peace and stability. These arguments have failed to make Kosovo's” diplomacy, Tahiri said.

Even analyst Mushkolaj estimates that Kosovo's diplomacy has failed to explain the essence of Brussels dialogue to countries that are skeptical or unstable to recognise the state of Kosovo.

It has to be clear that we have unresolved issues with Serbia, what we can have with other neighbouring states. But that does not mean that we are not an independent state and that we do not have our territorial integrity. In this respect, I believe Kosovo's diplomacy and other institutions have failed. If this became clear, then even hesitations, respectively, the assumptions of states, whether of those who have known us or of those who have not recognized us, would be smaller or would not exist at all”, Mushkolaj noted.

Brussels' dialogue on normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia has initially started as dialogue on technical issues in 2011, and then this dialogue has moved to the political level. The European Union has urged the two countries to reach a legally binding agreement at the end of the talks, which, in addition, would open the two countries' path to EU integration.