Tahiri: Kosovo needs redline state platform for talks with Serbia

In an interview for Kosovo, Tahiri says he does not expect things to move fast towards the final agreement.

Seeing that we have an incompetent government, many amateurs, these very unconventional, these three weeks except that we saw tensions, we saw a lot of government ignorance from Kurti, and then we saw not we remove barricades, with this approach no final agreement is reached, negotiations are not reached, for peaceful deals with the enemy are made with knowledge, with experience, with wisdom, not compared to X we Y, that this government lives all the time with comparisons of itself, to forget these things, to catch up with the state's authority of negotiation, and to know those in the political waters that are going to be tough at the table for the final agreement, the government should be well established, and that's going to have a mutual recognition of Kosovo, so that's a legal point, and then that's going to have a legal recognition, that's going to say, this is the one of the one of the other command.

She estimates Kurti must meet with parliamentary opposition parties and talk about the possibility of the final agreement and the red lines Kosovo can have.

She adds that Kosovo needs a state platform for talks with Serbia.

“Must find ways to sit down with opposition parties, here we are talking about parties that are in parliament, not individuals, with parties, government with opposition parties and sincerely national ones to talk now we are coming towards the final agreement come we are making a plan we are building red lines. Just to ask if you've ever seen a platform where there are red lines of Kurt and the government I'm saying no, there's no. By the time we started in 2011 I went out with the platform since then today is in the government's website and clearly it's the chapter of the red lines. We never saw it, and Bislim never came out, he always mentioned we handed over some chapters to Brussels. Kosovo needs state-run platform with red lines for talks, so I think Kurti should discuss with the opposition”, she says.

However, Tahiri expects the dynamisation of the dialogue process in Brussels and here mentions the European Union's interest in moving this issue forward.

“I think that (the process of dialogue) will soon be diagnosed, have already warned the two French and German advisers, shortly after this agreement was reached to remove the barricades or to release that police or other conditions the accession of association, they immediately warned they would visit Kosovo and Serbia to continue the process. It is also well that this process should be accelerated or wintered that the time has indeed come despite challenges and difficulties, the time has come for the final agreement to reach, establish a peace that the Balkans need, and not remain the Balkans in the wolf's mouth, in Russia's mouth. While the Balkans are so open, fragile, as Vuciq plays the Russian game in the Balkans we need stability, stability, security and that the European Union can do. The first by accelerating the expansion in the Western Balkans, by speeding up Xova's integration, but also by speeding up finalisation of the” final agreement, Tahiri says.

Last month Kosovo has faced provocations from Serbia in the north of the country, where several groups of local Serbs had placed barricades on roads leading to the border with Serbia.

Through such actions, Tahiri says Serbia's president aims to present Kosovo's north as a country of tension, but according to her, the Kurti Government must undo this narrative by establishing sovereignty and normality in the north.

“To restore sovereignty in the north the way we did, so that when the talks of the final agreement begin Kosovo has sovereignty in the north and not be allowed since the final talks started so that Vuciq can say nothing in the north and there plays the game of partition of Kosovo. Even this tension (barricades) that Vuciq has made with Putin's directives, we know, has made this tension to present the world to Kosovo's north as a country of tensions where Kosovo has no access, nor Serbs want to live with Kosovo. This narratory that created Vucinqi, Kosovo government and government Kurti, is to undo this gear, to establish a normality in the north to say to the world that what Vuciq did was a scenario of division, but we are here we do not allow the division of the north, protect the state, protect the geopolitical assets of our state that are in the north, so the mines, the water of other”, Tahiri says.

Kosovo's former chief negotiator in talks with Serbia estimates that the Franco-German plan, the Elyse Treaty, as well as de-juro recognition, are elements that can become the basis for reaching an agreement that can be accepted by Kosovo.

“The Franco-German Plan has no direct recognition, in a sense it may not have defaco, it must be de-juro, it must be legal, based on international law because there is the guarantee that Serbia will not violate Kosovo's territorial integrity, nor do it recognise as a state, now very clear that Serbia does not want the Franco-German plan, this is the best case of the government to strengthen ties with international partners, and to say, the Frank-man plan, we accept these conditions directly, because we do not accept mutual recognition because it does not bring lasting peace. Then what he lacks, lacks the basis of Serbia's guilt for war and genocide in Kosovo, does not have the plan, Serbia's obligation to pay back the war against Kosovo”, Tahiri says.