Kurti, not Thaci, leads final negotiations

The last phase of negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia. The fate of both nations is likely to be defined in the coming months. Our representative is still unknown, while President Alexander Vuciq will represent Serbia.

The EU, or Brussels, as we sometimes refer to it, is an arbitrary mediator, even as arbitrary as the negotiating parties could do all they could do was fail to implement the agreements reached or postpone negotiations.

Kosovo has so far been represented by Hashim Thaci, functional illiterate and current president. The agreements reached in Brussels, from 2011 onward, were not bad at all. Supposed association, also in the Ahtisaari Pack, had to be submitted to review of the Constitutional Court. That's what happened. Even the other deals weren't so terrible. It is naive to expect that these required and arbitraryly defined negotiations from the EU, we will be saved without any compromise. It depends on where we want to go and what we believe: towards the EU, believing that this project will exist or towards a Union with Albania, believing that the EU will collapse.

However, political parties in Kosovo must do everything to prevent Thaci from representing Kosovo in the final phase. This has nothing to do with its functional illiteracy, because nothing will depend on his ignorance, but it has to do with the way the final agreement will be presented in Kosovo.

If the Vetevendosje Movement led Kosovo's foreign policy from 2011 to now, and if these agreements were reached together [because, they could not be reached], as the dialogue is virtually a monologue of Brussels], then people would be very pleased with Serbian List, Association [which would never be called Zaednica], the situation in the north, Marko Djurici's foot-drag in Pristina, the beating of Ricillo minister, Kosovo membership in the UEFA, and FIFA, a very different thing. Just as Tsipras in Greece softened, Kurti in Kosovo was to be tamed, but this domestication would only be conveyed at the negotiating table in Brussels, while in Kosovo he would do his best through a well-planned articulation to sell the outcome of the negotiations.

Hashim Thaci cannot speak well a very important weapon in politics. He failed to legitimize the agreements, so he had to perform brutal maneuvers to put himself in a negotiating position. Thaci has experience in the negotiation process, but it doesn't matter. Imagine, a terrible agreement for the Serb side, which no Serb would accept [as Henry Kissinger said] was opposed after the war. Why? Because Thaci, as head of the Kosovo delegation, not knowing how to link two words, said figuratively, had left him unexplored. Moreover, Thaci was chief of the Political Directorate within the KLA, yet the Kosovo side's stance was disputed.

Whatever the final agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, it would be strongly contested by Thaci's oposents, the LDK and Vetevendosje, which, for its ill-fated, can perform a little better than he. Even if Serbia recognises Kosovo, and the Association actually will not have executive competencies -- that would be interpreted completely differently from opposition parties, whose lawyer Thaci [even though he would be right] would not be able to counter it.

In addition to this lack of knowledge, words, ideas, Thaci is already a very tarnished figure by various corrupt relatives. He is also credited with failing to develop the country's economic development, the ongoing corruption, and much else. His word, therefore, to protect the final agreement will be delegated even if it is true.

Thus, it would be good for the country to have another representative either from the LDK or from the Vetevendosje Movement so that the future could meet economic programmes rather than those producing unnecessary political farce.

There are no facts, there are only interpretations, said Friedrich Nietzsche. More than a good representative in Brussels, Kosovo would have won a good performance of the agreement [which would, as well, be prepared, or prepared by internationals]. Here, my proposal would be Albin Kurti. This would save the country from unnecessary polarization.