Chocolate: Kosovo becoming part-part member of Open Balkans

According to Colak, Albin Kurti's government does not consider Vuciq's priorities and meetings have been forced by internationals, though without any results.

The former minister of Kosovo's European Integration says that in these talks “there has been a tendency to reopen technical issues” and that “dialog has been only superficial for domestic political purposes”, making that “Kosovo with this approach has deepened isolation”.

“Fajtor for blocking dialogue are three sides -- the Kosovo side, Serbia and the international community -- which, seeing Kosovo and Serbia are not ready for final agreements, have not used mechanisms to postpone”, says former Minister Colak for Euronews.

Former Minister Colak says the US, although not the official mediator of dialogue, has been present in any agreement reached during this process.

Regarding the regional initiative of “Open Balkan”, he says there is an essential problem since its start in Novi Sad, Serbia, where Kosovo was not invited to be.

This initiative should work for all equally or cannot function at all. Unwittingly Kosovo becomes unable to participate in this” initiative, he said.

According to him, it would be for Kosovo to become a partial member of the initiative by respecting obligations only to countries that recognise its independence.

“Kosovo can become a partial member and here remove border barriers with northern Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro so that internationals do not charge that Kosovo- Albania is creating the Great Albania”, Colaku said.