Zbutet LDK provides conditions for inclusion in dialogue

The largest opposition party, the Democratic League of Kosovo, sets forth separate criteria and conditions under which it could eventually be included in the negotiations process with Serbia. First of all, the LDK, according to its officials, requires that the Negotiating Team have a complete institutional and constitutional legitimacy in Kosovo and second, that negotiations abide by the principles of the Quint countries, preferring that there be guarantees of the process as well as the United States.

Members of the Kosovo Negotiator Team are expected on January 8th to have a meeting in Brussels with European Union officials to inform them of conducting preparations in Kosovo for the dialogue process with Serbia.

Part of this team is not expected to be representatives from the two opposition parties, from the Democratic League of Kosovo and the Vetevendosje Movement, respectively.

The deputy chairman of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Lutfi Haziri, told Radio Free Europe, that the LDK, despite various demands that be part of the dialogue, has not changed its mind.

The LDK's “position has changed nothing from the last meeting we've had with the LDK's Chief and General Council. So the LDK has offered its platform for the principles of dialogue and the way it sees a dialogue corresponding to the negotiating principles the Quint group adopted in the summer of 2018. And, in political legitimacy, we cannot give [the Government and Negotiator Team] because it is not forgiven, political legitimacy is either won by election or by political agreement”, Haziri stressed.

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