Hoti: The reckless actions of Kurt Acciation are immediately required

Former Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti said Kosovo is in a unfavourable position in dialogue with Serbia because of Kurti's reckless actions. According to him, the country is now blind and the international partners' demand is to immediately establish the Association of Serb majority municipalities.

Hoti, in an interview for Kosova Prees, said his government had left a framework of dialogue aimed at mutual recognition, but Kurt's actions turned back this process.

I believe that the wrong approach of this government, from the beginning, has brought this situation, where now our international partners' demand is to establish association immediately. In the preliminary government, we have agreed to a framework of dialogue with our international partners that do not affect these topics and did not even enter the territorial integrity themes of sovereignty that the final agreement should be for normalisation and mutual recognition, which should be agreement within the constitution of Kosovo and that we disagree on anything until we agree to all. What did this government do when it received power? He gave up that frame of dialogue and came up with several points that went back a century and a half ago, and put the country and themselves in a dead end, have done a huge damage to the country”, Hoti said.

Hoti said Kosovo is in the most unfavourable position to dialogue because of decisions that led to tension in the situation in the north and the withdrawal of Serbs from the Republic institutions.

The best way is to create domestic political consensus and close co-ordination with our international partners, in particular with the United States, not to create unnecessary problems on the ground. It has been a constant requirement of our partners not to create such problems, despite our right, the actions taken in the north of the country in recent months. Everyone gave us the right, but they asked us to move these decisions for a moment that is more favourable for Kosovo. Today we are in the most unfavourable situation to dialogue, because it is the situation when not all institutions of the order and the rule of Kosovo are extended to the north”, Hoti said.

The former prime minister declared for Kosovo that he expects from government officials to be more cautious in their actions, as all pressure has returned from Kosovo rather than from Serbia.

The “expects to increase transparency much more in dialogue, I expect governments to become cautious in the actions they take, to work at the political cohesion needed for the dialogue process. Major damage that we are not co-ordinating over time with our partners and then the situation is coming when pressure is coming back from us, as a party damaged during the war, is now turning to us instead of returning from Serbia”, says Hoti.

Hoti refuses to give many comments about the European Union's plan for dialogue, called the Franco-German plan, after saying that transparency has been lacking on the part of the Kosovo government at this point as well.

I'm going to search and wait for a report in the House. I believe it is unacceptable for the opposition and citizens to accept a draft of the Franco-German plan. Send comments from the government in September, return the new draft in December, and not be informed either the citizens' public or the Parliament as the constitutional institution, supervisor in the dialogue process, is unacceptable. It's about the Franco-German plan, but there's no official information from the government on public opinion and the Parliament, so I have to reserve for the content of this plan until the Parliament has been officially informed, says among other things Hoti.

Democratic League of Kosovo deputy (LDK) accuses the government even of lack of crisis-time actions, especially fiscal policies in order to make it easier to deal with the crisis for citizens.