Kosovo no dilemma for meeting in Paris

The Paris meeting was warned at the Berlin meeting, which was held on April 29th, whose host were German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Enver Hoxhaj tells Radio Free Europe that at the Berlin, the Kosovo and Serbian Summit, invitation has been extended on July 1st to meet in Paris, whose host will again be President Macron and Chancellor Merkel.

As he says, the visit of the delegation of French and German diplomats, about three weeks ago, to Pristina and Belgrade, has been in the works of better preparation of the Paris summit.

According to him, the dilemmas raised, mainly by Serbia's authorities, whether the Paris meeting will be held or not, have nothing to do with the Kosovo side.

This depends too much on organisers. But it's about how much Kosovo is really prepared for the Paris meeting, how much we have principles and how much measurable expectations drawn up in a strategic document, about what we expect from the Paris meeting, what we expect from the Paris meeting, what we can be lists and topics, and what we can do at the Paris meeting, and what we can expect to achieve in the dialogue. But I have the impression that there is genuine American-European co-ordination and there may be new dynamics”, Hoxhaj stressed.

On the other hand, days ago, Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, has raised dilemmas if the Paris meeting is to be held at all, again citing the continuation of the 100 per cent tax dialogue on imports of Serbia's goods from Kosovo.

If there's a meeting in Paris, we'll be in a bad situation. But if there isn't a meeting in Paris, it's going to be even more serious or expressing myself in the language of the people, we'll be in a much bigger mud, us and the entire region of”, Vuciq said.

Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Hoxhaj stresses that regardless of what top Serbian officials declare, Kosovo has never rejected dialogue.

“We view dialogue as an instrument that serves normalisation of reports between the two countries and, above all, as an opportunity to complete Kosovo's statehood and is in the interest of Kosovo”, Hoxhaj stressed.

But connoisseurs and political developments in Kosovo estimate that the Paris summit has no logic to hold, if it is estimated that nothing has changed since the Berlin Summit.

Political affairs analyst Imer Mushkolaj, speaking of Radio Free Europe, estimates there has been no difference in the current process between Kosovo and Serbia. However, according to him, if the Paris meeting is held, it will be a chance for both countries, Kosovo and Serbia.

If the Paris meeting is held, then it could only serve as an impulse to both sides, to take the question of dialogue seriously and not leave the dialogue. But always given the establishment of a framework for dialogue and know in fact what the finale will be, or the result of the end of the” dialogue, Mushkolaj stressed.

Mushkolaj has added that in the event, eventually, the Paris meeting fails to be held on July 1st, then, according to him, it is likely to be postponed until September or October, because by then, most of the key positions in the European Union may have been elected after elections held in May.