12 minutes agoWalker: It's a big mistake to be an association, but I can understand why Kurt wants to sign that deal.
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Former head of O'S Versus Mission The SEU in Kosovo, William Walker, has called it a big mistake if Kosovo is to sign the European proposal agreement. Walker says it would be the “critical” if Kosovo signed the establishment of the Serb-based municipality Association within an agreement which also does not contain recognition [...]
Former head of O'S Versus Mission The SEU in Kosovo, William Walker, has called it a big mistake if Kosovo is to sign the European proposal agreement.
Walker says it would be the “critical” if Kosovo signed the establishment of the Association of Serb-based municipalities within an agreement which also does not contain mutual recognition of Kosovo-Serbia.
Among other things, he is critical of the international community that is pushing ahead of the very issue of association.
“This issue of the Serbian community's Association or something similar to me is some kind of breacher of the deal (deal-breaker). I would be extremely critical if Kosovo signed it. I think this is a big mistake. Even for the EU that put it first. For me, it's something that doesn't make any sense, to give even more special rights to a minority community, which already has more than one share in minority rights, more than any country in Europe that I know, and almost anywhere else”, William Walker told Insider.
Asked that “was a different option” Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, because this is one of the strictest American demands, Walker considers it wrong to postpone this issue before.
I haven't had the chance to talk to Escobar or someone from the U.S. government about it, I don't know what's behind that, to be in favor of that, because, as I said, I personally see this as a mistake of getting involved. But I know it's being pushed forward, towards Kosovo, to Kurt's government, to accept this, and I'm saying it would be wrong to do that”, the former ambassador said.
Insider's warning that in fact it is the Kosovo prime minister himself who has been the most thirsty “for this agreement to establish the firm and move into a legally binding agreement for the parties, Walker says he understands his position.
I'm not sure I understand Albin when he says I sign him like that, or he wants me to sign it. If there's no recognition, I see it wrong for him to sign”, he's done.
