Brian Reka: Dialogue with Serbia must end with mutual recognition, without territorial changes

Acting Minister of European Integration Blerim Reka took part in the Columbia University debate last night: the Futre of Kosovo”, organised by the ISHR and SESC.

In this online debate led by Prof. Dr. David Phillips, from Columbia University in New York, presented the opening word for Prof. Dr. Daniel Serwer, Johns Hopkins University.

As it becomes known in the communiqué issued by Reka's office, Kosovo Assembly Speaker Vjosa Osmani and former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj have attended the debate.

While Arta Dade, former Albanian Foreign Affairs Minister Fatmir Mediu, former Albanian Defence Minister Sonja Biserko, from Serbia's Helsinki Committee and Miodrag Vlahovic, Montenegro's ambassador to Holy Headquarters, participated in the debate.

Reka, among other things during his address, has said Kosovo's future is in Euro-Atlantic structures.

Kosovo's “future, the Minister Reka stressed, is as part of Western civilisation, as a Republic based on rule of law, a state with constitutionally protected borders and a government with good governance, Reka has said.

Meanwhile about the issue discussed in this debate on Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Minister Reka said that “ai could no longer be, as if it were, so no longer asymmetrical negotiations, but only negotiations of the two equal states, which should end with mutual inter-state recognition dealt with without territorial changes”.