Learning When Thaci and Vuchy will be reunited

Periskopi

21 July 2018, 12:12(8 years ago)

Dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, with the mediation of EU High Representative Federia Moghrini, has entered the intensive phase. During the summer, Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq and Hashim Thaci met twice. Mogher's office spokeswoman, Maja Kocijancic, has said the next meeting in Brussels will be realised in early September. [...]

President Thaci traveled to Brussels this week, and with him were other institutional leaders. When the time came for the meeting with Vucinciqi, Thaci entered alone.

Kocijancic says there the two presidents agreed that the next meeting would be in early September.

The “at the recent Summit of the High-level Dialogue, which the High Representative led on July 18th, the two presidents reviewed progress in the agreements thus far and agreed to re-negotiate in early September”, says Kocijancic's response to Express.

Meetings between the two leaders have been frequented, while parties and internationals have warned an intensive phase of dialogue until a final agreement is reached.

The Kosovo side is further away from a general consensus and the creation of a comprehensive negciatory team, while the road to dialogue is becoming even more baleful.

It has sufficed a statement -- or rather an American Ambassador Greg Delaway's refusal -- to declare the possibility of partitioning Kosovo into Brussels to restore uncertainty in the country.

On the other hand, Vuciq and Thaci reiterate and the final agreement can be very painful.

The opposition, which continues to reject participation in the dialogue with Thaci, the chief negotiator, says it is the president of the country who can put Kosovo in situations that would question the country's territorial integrity.

The final phase of dialogue has started in the last two rounds between President Thaci and his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic.

Kosovo and Serbia have held three rounds of talks since 1999. In wartime, the Ramboullet Conference for Agreements between Kosovo and Serbia was organised. The document was signed only by the Kosovo side until Serbs had refused, thus paving the way for NATO's 78-day shelling on Serbian military and police targets.

After the war, there was also a negotiating process, where Vienna was assigned as a place where Kosovars and Serbs met. Martti Ahtisaari was appointed the main mediator by proposing supervised independence for Kosovo.

A third dialogue process between Kosovo and Serbia has started in 2010 with the mediation of Brussels and US supervision.