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Life Krasniqi from the Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI) in an interview for Online Economy has said the EU has not decided that dialogue should be closed with mutual recognition between Kosovo and Serbia, but that the sides remain to put an end to this process.

“The EU has expressed its readiness to reach an agreement in the matter of months. But it does not depend only on the EU, but also on Kosovo, Serbia and external factors. What we are seeing is that the European Union is not that it has clearly put on the table the issue that at the end of this process should have mutual recognition. It is still left for the parties to interpret for themselves what normalisation means, so that Kosovo interprets it as recognition while Serbia is not and that space has in fact made it difficult to have a readiness to reach a” agreement.

According to Krasniqi, there are a series of processes that Kosovo must conclude between the process of dialogue, such as UN membership.

“Now given that we will have elections we will have a new Government we have to have a re-compliance about this process and there should be a request on the part of the Government of Kosovo, Kosovo institutions versus the EU to have a clarification of their position, but also have greater support from member states from Germany and France”.

“get support for UN membership. So there are many processes that Kosovo has to do through this agreement. Therefore, the discussion should be reached not only for those content or elements within the agreement, but what we like Kosovo want to achieve through this agreement, and what role the EU should have to support Kosovo in achieving these” goals.

Krasniqi also as the topic of discussion that Kosovo should lay in dialogue sees the topic of the found, for which it says justice should be sought by the Serbian state.

“The question of confronting the past is a key issue must surely be sought to whitewash the fate of undiscovered persons. Justice must be sought for persons raped during the Kosovo war. The rewards of war and all the issues between Kosovo and Serbia”.

Serbia has never admitted the blame or claimed responsibility for crimes committed in Kosovo, and if we want to talk about peace and reconciliation then they can't be sustainable unless there is recognition of crimes that have occurred in Kosovo. So admission and apology are necessary. To know the fate of the missing and to seek justice because what we have seen in this process is that it has been discussed for the unemployed, but there is no key element that is justice. Someone's got to be responsible for this.

Arbresha Loja-Stubla from the Group for Political and Juridic Studies said that the EU approach in general has been exhausted, returning to the table of topics that have been treated very often in the past.

The EU's “SQ in general has been an approach that has exhausted the process as such and consumed themes and turned into topics that have been treated very often in the past. And finally we had the opportunity to turn attention to the Association of Serb-based municipalities, which if not prosecuted under the 2015 agreement. Serbia will not release and will surely see another blockade with dialogue. That, of course, depends on the approach of the new government. In the future, we expect and ask the future government for the Assembly to be more involved and the report in the Assembly will take place just as it wants constitutional order and laws in force”.

According to Loja-Stubla, the incoming government should define clear strategies in terms of dialogue with Serbia.

Kosovo first should seek guarantees from EU and US mediators for any final agreement that will be reached between Kosovo and Serbia for the same to be implemented and guaranteed by these two sides. Second, we have to have stable and re-registered governments, so a government that has no problem with numbers and that respects constitutional order in the country, creates internal political unity, defines its strategy in dialogue, defines red lines and leads the principle, nothing agreed until everything is agreed. And also be willing to face the dynamics and challenges of dialogue, especially considering Serbia's approach to dialogue so that I can preserve the sovereignty and unity and functionality of the state”.

She has expressed optimism in the positive approach of the administration, Joe Biden, as part of the Kosovo-Serbia negotiating table.

The “in principle since the beginning we have demanded that the US also be part of the negotiating table taking into account its role and contribution to the establishment of the state of Kosovo. We consider it very important that now what will be the approach of the Benden administration and of course the positive belief in the meaning of what the United States of America has always had a constructive and important role”, has ended Loja- Stublla for EO.