Pacolli: With or without Balkan Open, Kosovo is filled with Serbian products

Pacolli through a Facebook post has said that Kosovo with or without the Open Balkans is filled with Serbian products.

He, among other things, has said he would have wanted Kosovo to be one of the founders of the “Balkan Open”, and for Prime Minister Kurti to be in Tirana.

 This is his full status:

In recent months, there has been an effort to push forward the idea of a joint regional market, which was supported at the Sofia Summit last year by the European Union, where Kosovo has given its support. Signing several agreements that would function the common market has been held hostage by Kosovo for several months.

We are now in a situation where a part of the region with or without right is taking initiatives to revive regional economic integration because it within the EU framework is failing and is not being raised for political reasons. Today I would have wanted Prime Minister Kurti in Tirana and Kosovo to be cofounder of the Open Balkans. I believe in a regional and integrated market where there are no barriers to trade and economic exchange. I believe this is the only way, in the absence of progress in European integration, that our region will not become isolation and nationalism. The only country that experiences obstacles today is Kosovo. The biggest beneficiaries of economic and regional integration would be Kosovo businesses. There is no obstacle for anyone to enter Kosovo. With or without the Open Balkans, Serbian products are coming to Kosovo. But Kosovo in other countries is stumbling. That's why I believe we need more economic and rational reasons than Isolationist for the Balkan Open.

We lose nothing to sit and talk. We lose nothing to decide our demands. We are losing a lot by becoming the most isolated country in the region and with very strict regional policies that are hampering Kosovo's businesses and citizens, but also the country's image in Washington and Brussels.

Kosovo should ask Washington, Brussels and Tirana for the Balkan Open Mechanism to be open to all, all equal and where benefits are businesses and citizens. If not the Balkan Open, Kosovo will sign the joint market agreements, which were rejected at the Berlin Summit and at the Bled summit in Kosovo. If Montenegro soon becomes part of the Open Balkans, I do not want to see Kosovo in a club with Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is an dysfunctional state and is unable to make decisions on its own. I want to see Kosovo in a club with Albania, Northern Macedonia and Montenegro. Not on the side of isolation, but opening and cooperating.