September not seen as optimism for reaching final agreement with Serbia

The yesterday's removal of reciprocity measures by the government of Hoti is expected to return to the negotiating table after two years of Kosovo and Serbia. Although the intensifying of negotiations is being required, and the month of September of this year has been cited as the optimum deadline for reaching a final agreement, such a thing is being seen as difficult to make.

Researchers at the Kosovo Democratic Institute, Violet Hajolli, has said that numerous unresolved issues with Serbia made the forecast for reaching the final agreement difficult.

The last two years have had an interest EU, dialogue mediators, as well The US with a more active role in this process so that Kosovo and Serbia close this dialogue with a final agreement. That's because dialogue has started in the past few years, in 2011 and still has not been achieved long-term normalisation... it's hard to predict any deadlines because they talk about a final agreement, as there is a final agreement and many issues must be concluded. Kosovo and Serbia have major differences, it is known that Serbia has claims on Kosovo”, she says.

Annie why it is being sought by international partners to speed up dialogue, political connoisseur Besnik Vasol says Kosovo should not remain hostage to the deadlines.

“Negotiations must continue, should be made in the spirit of trust on all sides. But we must not be hostage to the deadlines of course, there is no reason to say until September that it will end what will happen otherwise. Why is September so important, none of us have it clear”, he says.

While, Institute Director “Epic”, Demush Shasha says of KosovaPress, that Kosovo should focus more on the substance of the agreement, rather than its deadline.

The “has been and will be the problematic future of discussing any deadline as far as reaching agreement with Serbia. What we need to discuss is the substance of that agreement, the intentions of that agreement. The way we solve so many open issues that we have with Serbia. And the deadlines will come at the end of this process naturally. Seting the deadlines in advance without discussing a range of unresolved things with Serbia is against productive. Looking from today it is very hard to imagine how an agreement can be reached by September when we have so many unresolved questions”, Shasha said.

Dialgou Kosova- Serbia has started since 2011. Meanwhile, in the past two years there has been a more active role of the United States in this process, while in various international circles it is required that the legally binding agreement for the two states be reached this year.