Haradinaj urges “Rambuje” second solution with Serbia (Video)

The reconciliation between Albanians and Serbs through a historic agreement is being seen with scepticism, even though the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue launched in 2011 has entered the final phase.

Kosovo Government head Ramush Haradinaj, who last November made a decision to impose the tax on goods coming from the neighbouring state [Serbia], even despite international pressures, has changed its stance on removing this measure.

Haradinaj who personally did not get involved in Kosovo- Serbia has a proposal on how the final agreement can be reached.

The March 1999 agreement, known as the Rambouillet Conference, for the executive head would be a solution.

Haradinaj told the Online Economy that if it were invited to a conference of kind like Rambouillet's, Kosovo would not be an obstacle and would discuss tax removal.

Kosovo is ready to reach an agreement with Serbia, as if we were invited to a conference like Rambouille, we had not prevented it by taxes. So a conference was arranged for a” deal, he said.

While acknowledging that the arrangement is not eternal, it has a demand for local producers to increase the quality of products.

The truth is that the tax is not eternal, if Serbia's positions for agreement with Kosovo for recognition are changed, then the tax is removed. That's what I'm trying to get you to call a local producers to use the time it's tax to increase quality, build confidence in consumers”.
But we don't have a date, we don't have a date in a hurry to take the tax off. In a hurry, we'll be introduced to Serbia, but to get the tax off me, I don't have to rush”

So part of it is ours, so we have duty like the tax case, but part of it has the other side, so it can't just one, so what happens is that success has to work on both sides. But once asked to remove the tax without a guarantee of recognition, we will not move”.
Haradinaj said the Serb state's request to find the last war in Kosovo is necessary.

It's necessary, human, human and important. But the tax settlement is aimed at reaching an agreement with Serbia”, the prime minister said.

We remember that on February 6, 1999. This meeting, which was held in the vicinity of Paris, France, aimed at resolving the Kosovo crisis.

The conference initiative, which lasted until February 23rd, was the Contact Group, while the mediator was the US-based Cristopher Hill, Boris Majorski from Russia and Wolfgang Petrich, representative of EU states.

The Kosovo delegation had basically accepted the proposal for resolving the Kosovo crisis, which the Contact Group had proposed. The Serbian delegation, however basically accepted this proposal-agreement, defended the stance that NATO troops not be allowed to pass through Serbia and international forces in Kosovo be within the United Nations.

The second round of talks that began on March 15th in Paris ended without success. The Kosovo and Serbian delegations had signed various agreements on 18 March. The Kosovo delegation had signed the agreement offered by international co-ordinators, while the Serbian delegation had signed the draft political agreement- agreement on self-rule in Kosovo.

The last attempt, on March 22, 1999, by US special envoy Richard Holbrooke, was not successful. He failed to convince then Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to accept the Kosovo agreement and the deployment of international troops.

On 24 March 1999, NATO planes began shelling Serbia's military and paramilitary troops. The bombings ended on June 6, 1999, with the signing of the Kumanovo Agreement envisioning the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo and the deployment of peaceful international troops.
Later, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1244, with which the protectorate was established, the international presence in Kosovo, UNMIK as a civilian mission and KFOR military mission. On February 17th 2008, Kosovo declared independence. /Periscopi