Brussels Forgets Association

European Union officials have only confirmed that there is still no date when this issue will be discussed. Likewise, officials in the Government of Kosovo say they have no information about when the next meeting at the technical level can be held.

“And we don't have any official invitation for a meeting”, Kosovo Government spokeswoman Donjet Gashi said briefly.

On the other hand, political analysts say the Kosovo delegation in these talks would have to be prepared and not accept, as they say, any work documents on the table for which it is not known what it contains.

The Kosovo government does not currently have the draft proposed by the management team, but has only the meeting processes. The draft, meanwhile, has been handed over to the European Union. The management team consists of only four representatives of the Kosovo Serb community.

Politologist Ramush Tahiri, speaking of Radio Free Europe, said that any documents that are laid on the table to discuss the process must first be considered by Kosovo teams participating in the talks in Brussels.

Kosovo's “Pala, in this case Avni Arifi, chief of the technical delegation, must on this issue respect its institutional dignity and reject debate on any document that has not been examined or that has no mandate of the Government of Kosovo or that is incompatible with the Constitution and the laws of Kosovo”, Tahiri said.

According to politicologist Tahiri, the managing team, which has drafted the draft-state, likely has not respected the recent opinion of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo, which had concluded that many articles that were proposed with the latest agreement on Association were contrary to the Constitution of Kosovo.

That draft-state should become a statute in the Kosovo Assembly, respectively, in the Government of Kosovo. The government and the Assembly are obliged to respect the Constitutional Court's opinion and protect legitimacy and constitutionality in the country”, Tahiri said.

Even the other political analyst, Artan Muhhaxhiri, said Kosovo institutions should be cautious and well prepared in the event the draft status station is discussed.

Kosovo's “Pala should not even talk about whether the demands of the Serbian side are maximum and violate the constitutionality of the state of Kosovo. So, it would not take a second to negotiate with the Serbian side, nor to be accepted as a topic if this draft is in accordance with the will of the state of Serbia and against the values and institutional norms of Kosovo”, Muhramiri said.

The European Union also agrees to respect signed agreements, and such an agreement is that every draft submits to the Constitutional Court's judicial assessment. So there's no way it should be talked about if this thing is intended to change now”, Muhaxiri said.

Meanwhile, one of the members of the management team for drafting the Kosovo Constitutional Change and adoption of separate laws so that the Association can have executive competencies. It is agreed on in Brussels”.

Officials in Kosovo institutions have told Free Europe Radio that Kosovo has no intention of changing the Constitution to introduce the competencies of Association within it.