Krasniqi: Dialogue lacking consensus, even in ruling coalition

Life Krasniqi from the Kosovo Democratic Institute says it remains disturbing that Hyseni was appointed only two days before the meeting is held, as it claims to be questioned whether he could prepare for this meeting.

Krasniqi, who monitored the dialogue process from the very beginning, says that even the lack of internal consensus for this process is weakening Kosovo's position.

“It was named just days before the meeting was held in Brussels and certainly remains as a matter of concern as to how much it has been able to prepare for this meeting and that it has been integrated into the process earlier to actually understand where the process has been and where it is going. At the same time, we need to have a little more clarification about what Kosovo's positions are and if Kosovo has positions for specific topics... I'll get to Mr. President. Hyseni wants to coordinate both political parties and the international factor as described in his duties, knowing that Mr. Hoti as prime minister has failed to do so. Hence, there are many questions that should not be related to a certain name, but to a process. And knowing how important this process is should be required to build a consensus”, she says.

Krasniqi says that even in the past there have been processes which have been launched at the highest political level at the level of prime minister or presidents, then there have been discussions that have been held at the most technical level of experts.

The “U has passed very quickly from this political process to this technique to say so, although it is said that there is no technical process, it should be understood that in fact it is the technical and political process, since it is technical at the expert level. We have not yet realized clearly in fact whether the political process has reached the political level to have an agreement, we do not yet know what the role of the EU is in this process, whether there are principles, what the principles about the final phase of dialogue are, whether there is any agreement that the epilogue is to be mutual recognition, whether there are red lines, we do not know the role of member states, as we do not even know the role of the United States. So there are still many questions, while within the internal political spectrum there is an extreme fragmentation where it is seen that it is not only in the opposition pole, it seems that there is a fragmentation even within the ruling coalition”, she says.

Since the co-ordinator's appointment was met with scepticism by political parties in the country, including those parts of the ruling coalition, Krasniqi says he would have to agree to the issue in advance.

The fact that we do not have an internal political consensus, in which the opposition is not involved, goes so far as the lack of consensus even within the coalition partners. It means that we are in fact in a very weak position, because we find it difficult to postpone such an important process forward that requires ultimately 2/3 of votes where there is no consensus either within the government or with the opposition”, she said.

A final agreement, as promoted by the heads of local institutions, Krasniqi says it only makes sense when mutual recognition is being discussed.

And for reaching such an agreement, she sees the involvement of the United States as necessary. A final normalisation agreement only makes sense when it comes to mutual recognition, but at the same time when we have greater involvement of EU member states in the sense that it unlocks the five non-connouncil states, so we are recognised by those five states and when we take European perspectives and manage to pass towards UN membership. There is certainly a need for US involvement here, as only in this form if we know clearly where we are going then a journey to final agreement” can succeed, Krasniqi says.