Milazim Krasniqi: We are closer to war than peace with Serbia

With Serbia's current leadership and mentality, Kosovo is closer to war than peace, while dialogue has served the Serbian side more to maintain European integrity than the Kosovo side to complete statehood.

So it was said at the table organised today by the University of Pristina Student Peace on the subject “The perspective of analysts for the latest phase of Kosovo-Serbia dialogue”.

Pristina University professor “hasan Pristina” Milazim Krasniqi said there is no real dialogue with one Serbia, which continues with the same approach to Kosovo, as at the time of chief criminal Slobodan Milosevic.

He said the Serbian side differs from the Kosovo side on the format of these talks. According to him, Kosovo is in worse shape than in 2008 when it declared independence.

Professor of The UP's is sceptical that now is the moment for the final agreement, but it says the right moment for our country is to be strengthened by the institutional aspect.

While Kosovo is part of the Serbian Constitution, until Serbia blocks every initiative in Kosovo to accept it into international organisations, until Serbia gives no record of the missing who are thousands, until no apology has, what dialogue, where is the dialogue? These are just situations our politicians use as some sort of anesthetic bandage, but the reality is that citizens need to understand that they live in a real world in which the situation is much more prosaic and I am always convinced that we are closer to war than peace with Serbia today and in the future with this Serbia that exists today”, Krasniqi said.

Professor Ibrahim Gashi said the Serbian side is gaining from dialogue, while the Kosovo side through this process alone has been damaged, especially in terms of recognition.

He voiced doubts in what is said to be dialogue in the final phase, until he has asked the Kosovo political class for consensus to know whether continued dialogue is necessary.

“This process of dialogue, I think, is very bad to continue with the process of international affirmation of Kosovo's citizenship, and this has not been observed by our political class, has been entrusted to these photographs, to believe that normalising relations with Serbia, and dialogue is contributing to the consolidation of citizenship and that we have come to a point when dialogue has been done to us as one in a way in the eyes of politicians and a part of international opinion as the precondition for the existence of the state of Kosovo, if there is no dialogue, Kosovo cannot exist,<1> said Gashi.

Present at this table was Professor Adam Beha, who said Kosovo cannot easily reject dialogue, as there is no other solution. According to him, thanks to dialogue Kosovo has won decentralisation, but has called for preserving the multiethnic character of Kosovo society, Kosovo's sovereignty and its functionality.

Professor Beha did not rule out the possibility of creating association with executive competence.

We have no core, I am a metaphor to complete this process, being serious collaborators with the international community. The best leverage is the success we have had in the decentralisation process. We were unable to create any union. This idea, Zeyednica, didn't it? Why, because Kosovo has received a constitutional obligation to establish an association of Serb majority municipalities. This international obligation has become Kosovo's local law. We've passed a law, so-do-do, when we haven't been able to create association, but we're late, and as long as there's more options to be delayed, said Professor Bea.

Otherwise, dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia has ceased, as the Serbian side conditions the continuation of the process with the removal of the tax on Serbian products and the platform for the dialogue voted in the Kosovo Assembly.

Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has repeated several times that the tax will be lifted only when official Belgrade recognises Kosovo's independence. /