Kurti gets another call from EU: government commits to dialogue start as soon as possible

The EU now believes the time has come for the process to be completed successfully through reaching a comprehensive normalisation agreement, legally binding which will address all open issues between Kosovo and Serbia.

Those assessments have been expressed by an EU spokesman, answering Radio Europe's free questions about the possibility of continuing dialogue and principles recently presented by Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti.

Kryeziu, spokesman for the Government of Kosovo, in a proposal for Radio Free Europe, has stressed that Prime Minister Albin Kurti, as far as dialogue is concerned with Serbia, has already expressed his position, which continues to be unchanged.

The first “, the reality of independent Kosovo must be accepted. So we can't go back before the independence of 2008. Second, the truth must be accepted. Serbia has committed genocide in Kosovo and must accept the crimes it has committed. Third, we have to sit down equal. Kosovo cannot be the topic of discussion, but should be the equal party at issue. The fourth, needed by dialogue and the final agreement to benefit citizens”, Kryeziu has said.

From the EU to their answers have not been addressed directly to Kurt's positions. In Brussels they have only said that “The EU and member states expect dialogue to continue soon and to see Kosovo's new government fully committed to bringing this important process to successful shut-down”.

The EU Special Representative's mandate for dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, has already been completed. Although it was expected that the agreement between Kosovo and Serbia will be reached within months” this did not happen.

Lajcak has continued his mandate for nearly two more years, until the summer of 2022. During the first year of his mandate, only a small number of meetings at the level of “delegation heads” and only two high-level meetings were held between then Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti and Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq.

But, an EU spokesman, however, says that “in 2020 EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell and Lajcak have been hosting a series of high-level meetings and chief negotiators “over which a tangible initial progress has been achieved”.

Meanwhile, diplomats of EU member states, when talking about dialogue during the first year of Lajcak's mandate, are limited to saying that “welcomes the fact that dialogue has resumed”.