Minus Kurti: Who could be alternative partners for the establishment of Association?

For weeks, Mr. Gabriel Escobar, the US envoy for the Western Balkans and the key American man in the dialogue process, is saying a frequent statement: That association will be established even if the leader of the Kosovo government disagrees, Mr. Albin Kurti.

Alternative partners It's the word with which important American figures speak, referring to what alternative partners are going to find. So minus Kurti, for establishing association (known Zajednica in Vetevendosje.)

Last time in interviews for local media, Mr. Escobar mentioned this option.

But who are these partners? Ask Periscope and try to find the answer in some of the latest developments on this subject.

U.S. State Department adviser, Derek Chollet, He said last week that association is a Kosovo pledge to fulfill.

Such a statement has long come from important figures of European and American diplomacy, directly involved in the dialogue process between Kosovo and Serbia.

But again, if Prime Minister Albin Kurti is not a partner for the establishment of Asociacon, so who are partners?

Last night, news came out. Channel 10 television, who was called to sources within the American Embassy in Pristina, said this embassy would call civil society for a meeting, in terms of the steps of establishing the Association of Serbian municipalities.

“Takim has been invited to January 31st, at the US Embassy's facilities in Pristina”, the channel 10 reported last night, calling sources, follows Periscope.

It was what we could think of, so first, our first partner, if not the Government, would be Civil society.

But after this news, I Cuncosova would publish another information, also calling to its own sources, that the Embassy, On January 31st, political parties have invited to discuss the establishment of the Serb majority municipalities.

The US Embassy has invited political parties to a joint discussion on 31 January. It is learned that the topic of discussing this meeting, initiated by Ambassador Jeff Havenier, will be the issue of establishing the Association of Serb majority municipalities. At this discussion table, there are expected to be other diplomats”, the clan would write last night.

Is Demiting Association starting?

Mr. Derek Chollet, last week in an interview for Radio Free Europe, stated that the United States will do its part For the demitation of association.

This implies, in clear terms, that there are many misunderstandings or misinterpretations in Kosovo's public opinion regarding the hot topic of association.

In this, from what we know from the domestic political flow in our country, has mostly contributed to the ruling party, the Vetevendosje Movement. Or more precisely, he mythed the Association.

“We're going to do our part in trying to demystify Association in some ways, because I think there's a lot of uncertainty about what the Association is and what it's not”, said Chollet last week in interview for REL, follow Periscope today.

The recent moves by the American Embassy in Pristina, especially since five guests were Friday we left behind at Prime Minister Kurti's office (Lajcak, Escobar, German and French envoy for dialogue, as well as an Italian envoy), show that the US Embassy in our country will start what Mr. Cholles ʹ that's demitation of association, and who are partners for establishing the Association really remains to be seen in progress.

But what would this initiative look like, and can such a process be done without Government?

According to former Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, the signatory of the Agreement on Principles for the establishment of Association, the Government cannot be left out of this process.

In a statement issued by the Albanian Post a few weeks ago, Mr. Mustafa declared:

“I see no possibility that the government will be left out of the process of implementing the agreement to switch to nongovernmental subjects”, explained Mustafa.

“The constitution does not envision other partners”, Isa Mustafa said.

The Association of Serb majority municipalities is an agreement Kosovo signed with Serbia in 2013, and the text contained 15 points.

In August 2015, within the Brussels dialogue, then Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa and his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vuciq, have arrived. Agreement on Principles to Establish This Association A deal that has never been implemented.

Just two months later, in October 2015 respectively, the agreement has been submitted for interpretation at the Constitutional Court of Kosovo by then Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga.

Kosovo Constitutional Court, in December 2015, has said that the Association Agreement, at 23 points, is not in harmony with the Kosovo Constitution.

The court has found that the Association of Serb-run municipalities should be established as it was in advance with the first Brussels Agreement (of 2013), ratified by the Kosovo Assembly and declared by the president of the Republic of Kosovo (v.j. Atifete Jahjaga, while the Agreement on Principles (for the establishment of Association, reached in 2015), is not entirely in harmony with the spirit of the Constitution. /D.D. /Periscopi