Ahmeti: Home to Parliament of Talks With Serbia

The co-chairman of the dialogue team with Serbia, Shpend Ahmeti, has warned that soon the negotiating team will send the negotiating team to the Parliament, the platform for talks with Serbia.

At a news conference, Ahmeti has indicated that they have accepted documents from the prime minister and the president.

He has voiced confidence that the platform will be ready before January 30th, when the spring session in the Assembly is expected to begin.

I believe that before January 30th we will be able to hand over the platform of dialogue. That platform is based on the Kosovo Constitution. This dialogue has a goal to wrap up the process between Kosovo and Serbia. If there is no recognition, then, for us this dialogue does not even make sense, nor does it deserve to waste time because it is clear that Kosovo is involved in some wave of compromises”, Ahmeti has said.

Ahmeti has also indicated that the dialogue team has established six commissions under his mandate, which he received from the Parliament.

He has announced that the established commissions are: for the missing, for the property, for the cult heritage, for minority rights, for war crimes commission and for the economy.

Speaking of the possibility of achieving an agreement with Serbia, Shpend Ahmeti said, however, he is sceptical.

I am very skeptical that there will be an agreement, as positions are far away. It seems that Serbia expects even more concessions, while we think we have given it all concessions, and we think Serbia needs to remove the Kosovo problem”, Ahmeti has said.

While speaking of Belgrade's condition for tax removal to continue dialogue, Ahmeti voiced confidence that such a thing would not happen.

He said there is no deadline for continuing dialogue, or final agreement between the two states.

I don't think the tax should be paid. The second is that this decision is of the government and I believe that what needs to happen is to have more concrete requests against Serbia, because there are 100 different themes, where Serbia is doing harm and does not implement agreements”, Shpend Ahmeti said.