What specifically are two Escobar Lajcak will require, according to Wisar Ymer

Former Vetevendosje Movement leader Visar Ymeri thinks the two emissaries, both Grabiel Escobar and Miroslav Lajcak, will seek guarantees from Prime Minister Albin Kurti and the authorities in Belgrade that dialogue will continue and work towards the final agreement.

Today's afternoon, US Special Envoy for the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar will arrive in Pristina, and the European Union's special representative for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, where they will first meet the heads of state, but also political leaders.

Ymer says the first requirement will be that dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade should be taken more seriously.

The key requests will be made by Kosovo institutions in this case by the prime minister, to show readiness for a process of dialogue and readiness to reach such an agreement, and I believe that with the same demand and position will be seen in Belgrade to get both readiness and political institutions there on the same issue. It is already likely that in Pristina any of the modalities, which would be included in the compromise agreement that Kosovo should do as required to do, to reach the final” agreement, he has said.

Ymer said that Kosovo should change its view about dialogue and be seen as the opportunity, not only as pressure to continue this process.

I think that dialogue should be viewed as an opportunity in the Republic of Kosovo, and not only as a kind of fear that is being imposed on us from abroad to which we should only go because we can't afford the pressure otherwise it won't go. I think this is the wrong approach, and I think this approach can bring us more problems than a positive approach to dialogue”, he says.

Following the decision not to allow the Serbian referendum to be held in Kosovo, Ymer says the same standard should be held with Serbian elections in April.

However, he says Kosovo must be ready to reach an agreement with Serbia to find an opportunity to vote on citizens with dual citizenship, and every time there are such situations.

“Of course, the Republic of Kosovo must set a standard of these issues and the issue here that we are talking about, as it says, the international community or partner countries of Kosovo, is to find a modulation guaranteeing the exercise of voting rights for citizens who have dual citizenship, in this case the citizenship of Serbia and Kosovo. And we have seen that it has been both the demand of ambassadors for the referendum and as the current European Union requirement, there is the United States of America that Kosovo and Serbia through a common agreement find the mode of how to function so that we have a standard of this mode whenever we have such situations. I think that now the Republic of Kosovo should not withdraw from this decision it has made, but that it would be willing to find an agreement that would not violate the right of the citizens of Kosovo who want to exercise their right even to be citizens of Serbia vote”, he says.

Lajcak and Escobar will remain for official visits from today to February 2nd, where they will meet with political leadership in Kosovo, political party leaders and representatives of the international community