Agreement implementation expected to be discussed 4 April formation of supervisory commission

Kosovo and Serbia next week will hold the new round of dialogue in Brussels, the first since agreeing to the basic agreement and annexing its implementation last month. On April 4th, the chief negotiator teams -- Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi and Petar Petkoviq -- will meet from the Serbian side. The implementation of provisions of the basic agreement is expected to be discussed at the meeting, as well as the formation of the joint monitoring commission for implementation of the deal.
Kosovo Government spokesman Progress Kryeziu, in an answer to Kosova Prees, says provisions of the basic agreement should be implemented regardless of each other, but without specifying either of the 11 provisions of the agreement.

“The Annex document envisions the formation of the Joint Supervisor Commission within 30 days to ensure the implementation of all provisions of the Base Agreement. The next meeting at the top negotiator level is expected to be held next week in Brussels, where it will also be discussed implementing the provisions of the Base Agreement, which must be implemented regardless of each other”, he says.

On the other hand, political parties in Kosovo comment on their expectations for the upcoming meeting of dialogue, while even accusing Serbia of deconstructive access to dialogue.

MP Movement Vetevendosje, the ruling party Arberesh Kryeziu-Hyseni, tells Kosovo that the Government is working on starting implementing the basic agreement.

According to her, the Kosovo side is continuing to be constructive in dialogue and that it will not trouble implementing the points involved in the agreement.

Serbia will continue to maintain this deconstructive stance, will continue to be so deconstructive, while the Kosovo side has shown its constructiveity. He did what he had to do. Meanwhile, it is also working at starting to implement the plan, at points that are important to work on, of course all of them. However, we have another time procedure when states will start to specifically implement issues that are involved under the basic agreement and that enters within the implementation plan. The Republic of Kosovo is doing its job from the beginning and I don't think we will have any problems implementing the points involved. We have shown that at each of these points we have our own proposals and discussions that have to do with their implementation”, she says.

Meanwhile, the deputy of The PDK, Xhavit Haliti, stresses that the parties in the dialogue have very little room for not implementing the agreement.

He says the agreement is monitored by the EU and the US and that the political and economic consequences will be too great for parties who do not implement the agreement.

This agreement is monitored and there is an agreement that will be monitored every day and called into account every day each side preventing the sustainability of this agreement. Now for implementation, the US-backed EU is in charge. I think there's little room for maneuvering, as the consequences will be for any country that doesn't implement this agreement. Political consequences, economic consequences and others that will take on those who monitor the” agreement, Haliti emphasises.

Following the basic agreement agreed on February 27th in Brussels, Kosovo and Serbia agreed on March 18th in Ohrid, North Macedonia on the annex to implement this agreement, although there was no signing of it.

Within the annex of implementation of the agreement, the parties agree to adopt the Declaration of Missing Persons, as negotiated within the EU-brokered dialogue as urgent issues. Meanwhile, to implement Article 7, Kosovo immediately starts negotiations under the EU-mediated dialogue to determine specific arrangements and guarantees, which ensure a proper level of self-advancing for the Serb community in Kosovo, in line with previous relevant dialogue agreements, as defined by the EU mediator.