Interview Ramadan: Kurt's opposition has not been to contest agreements, but to become their implementer

The renowned political analyst, Shkodran Ramadani, in an interview for Periscope, spoke of the meeting expected to take place Monday. He has also commented on Kurt's approach to the EU-proposed and US-backed plan.

Periscope: - What does recognition mean by Serbia, not jurea, as is already spoken of as ending the deal according to the Franco-German (European) plan? Is this a game of words to reason on or is there something beyond that?

Mr. Ramadan: Absolutely, more is the play of words than for good in the substance of the whole process, because, recognition de fact has been achieved since the time when Serbia has agreed to negotiate with Kosovo by granting many institutions and many documents and agreements, such as 2015, for example. The statute for Commission Association goes to Kosovo Constitutional, the telephone code must belong to Kosovo, etc. For all of this, Serbia has had a few years later where fact has acknowledged the existence of the Government of Kosovo.
You see that from de juro because in recognition there's verbal notes, where a country decides to recognize, decide in Parliament, in Government, and it sends the verbal note that we've witnessed your country. Now it is unclear whether the Constitution of Serbia will be changed, where Kosovo figures as part of Serbia. So, obviously it's not a very big step in that sense, it's more of a continuation of the current dialogue.

Periscope: - So far, there is no official version of the European plan, although different media have published it, from its sources. Kurti says the opposition has this plan? Is this distransparity or how it is estimated that the government will see such a plan?

Mr. Ramadan: This transparency is unprecedented in the history of Kosovo governments, which they have had shortcomings in this regard. No government has arrived at these measures of intelligence, where everything has been done in secret, away from the eyes of the public, away from the Kosovo Parliament, away from the media and none of us know what discutu is essentially or agreed and hence reaching an agreement in this form is certainly a very bad thing, because if it was good, they would find it out from the weather, but just want to blow up the public at the moment it becomes, in some way the trondis.

Periscope: Prime Minister Kurti has accepted the establishment of Association under certain conditions. Has this surprised you and how you see his six conditions?

Mr. Ramadan: I haven't surprised you at all, I've known a long time since Kurt's been in the opposition. I anticipated that he would accept any agreement. The reason for all his opposition has not been the opposition to the ban, but simply to become their signatories and implementers. In this respect, I am not at all surprised.

As for six conditions he has presented, there are six ridiculous conditions. Funny because they are not his conditions that he has imposed on Serbia, but they are achievements that Kosovo has already provided years ago. The first condition; “asociation must be under the Constitution”, this is arrogant because the second point of the 2915 agreement is said to be that, after the version, the statute goes to the Constitutional Court, which means that Kosovo has reached it since the time of agreement.
The second condition that says “Association will not be monoethnic”, this is the Constitutional Court itself. In its decision, it says it conflicts with Kosovo's multiethnic constitutional spirit.

The third one when he says “is only replaced after recognition”, he's referring to recognition de facto, not de juro, which we previously explained.

The name change is a very groundless condition because it matters to the end whether its competencies and its judicial nature pose a danger to the state of Kosovo.

Only the name issue and the withdrawal of Vuciqi's letters to the countries of Europe for Kosovo recognition are his. Others are conditions Kosovo has achieved through past governments years ago.

Periscope: Prime Minister Kurti says the status of the Serbian Orthodox Church is in the framework of the plan only to form, while he says even the status of the Serbian Church is formal. How do you evaluate this kind of political oxymoron of the prime minister? So, how's something formalized in a negotiation plan in Brussels, about being formed again?

Mr. Ramadan: His approach to the Orthodox Churches in Kosovo has to be treated in community with other attitudes that he has, such as Zajednica, for National Union, nepotism or anything that has so far violated. The question of this will be the same. That's why I'm not surprised. We will only wait when they will sign because they are not a man of their word or a job and there is no chance of waiting for anything other than the normalisation of that decision.

Periscope: )Do you expect there to be signing the agreement Monday at the meeting between Kurti and Vuciqi in Brussels?

Mr. Ramadan: There's gotta be something, with a signature maybe of further steps, but I don't know for sure, as I said before, there's an informative darkness, it's non-transparent as a process, and we're serving only with information from journalists who somehow or otherwise get access to this process. From what I've heard, of course something will be signed.

Interviewed: Enis Rrustemi / Periscopi/