European Union: Waiting for the Foundation of Association

EU spokesman Peter Stano says that the Union's stance has not changed for association either.

Our position has not changed. Kosovo has entered an agreement to establish the Association/United Serb municipalities. This agreement is linked with trust from all parties involved. He's never retired”, Stano said.

Recalling that the 2013 agreement was ratified in the Assembly by 2/3 of MPs, Stano says Kosovo has an international obligation to implement it.

Prime Minister Albin Kurti had declared Asociation dead, saying his form only suits Belgrade and reiterated that that agreement had been declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Kosovo. The latter, the EU ambassador, calls it a misinterpretation.

The 2015 Constitutional Court's decision regarding Association/Unibility is regularly misinterpreted. The court never said that the Association/Uniship could not/should not be founded”, Stano says.

Therefore, he stresses that in the EU, Kosovo expects “to honour the pledges it has made in Dialog”.

The association of Serb majority municipalities is scheduled to be an important part of the agreement Kosovo and Serbia are being asked to sign within weeks. The special emissary of the United States, Gabriel Escobar, said Wednesday morning with President Vjosa Osmani had talked about various ways this association could be formed.

For Escobar, the most important is that association “should be in line with the Constitution of Kosovo, must adhere to Kosovo laws and should not influence Kosovo's functionality”.

The government, meanwhile, announced it opposes this association. Government spokesman Progress Kryeziu told Thursday Express that the position on this matter “is known, clear and the same”.

The “Associations that the foundation character has ethnicity conflict with the Constitution of our Republic and the very character of our state. Moreover, non-US communities need integration, not isolation”, Kryeziu has said.