Can the Croatian “model” work for Kosovo Kurti, former President Stipe Mesic speaking

The head of Kosovo's executive has come up with a vision of establishing association based on the Croatian model. British Ambassador Nicholas Abbott has urged him to come up with a draft based on the model Kurti has chosen.

But can such a model work in Kosovo and with the characteristics Kosovo has. The former Croatian president, Stipe Mesic, has spoken about this.

He has said it is difficult to talk about an ideal model of regulating communities' lives, however, says the Croatian model has proved to be functional and sustainable for communities living in the same space.

It's difficult to talk about an ideal pattern of the life of different communities, since nothing in life is ideal. However, the Croatian model has proved to be functional and sustainable for communities living in the same space”, Stipe Mesic has said of Gazeta Express.

Asked whether the Croatian model could have any differences because of Kosovo's specifics, Mesic has said that if the relations of life are well co-ordinated in the specific case, then Sʹka needs to be diverted from the adopted lifestyle model.

Mesic has suggested that all national minorities in Croatia have legally regulated cultural autonomy, through representation in government bodies and until the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia.

Croatian diplomacy chief Gordan Grlic Radman has also arrived in Pristina on Tuesday. He has said the Croatian model is successful and can serve as an example. He has yet added that such a model has proved successful for Croatia on the road to EU integration.

When we talk about the model called Croatian, it is a model that is promoted through constitutional law on minority rights. As a model, it is successful and can serve as an example. Of course he was valued and linked to our EU approach, this model has proved to be successful for us. But, for all who wish, there are many more”, the Croatian top diplomat has stated at a news conference.

The Croatian model proposed by Kurti has not said a word to EU High Representative Josep Borelli. He has spoken only of the draft proposed by the Management Team, which he has said is not the final draft but the starting point on the issue of establishing association.

“is not a final draft, but it's a starting point”, Borell declared.

Meanwhile, the American emissary for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, has said both drafts -- that of Prime Minister Kurti and the Manager Team -- are serious.

I think it's serious, but the one introduced by the Management Team is also serious”, Escobar has declared.

Kosovo's government has voiced open opposition to the management team's proposal, which was headed by Aleksandar Vucici's co-party. A day after the May 2nd meeting, Kurti through Minister of Local Power Elbert Krasniqi has fired the Management Team.

Such an act is seen as violating the Ohrid Agreement in terms of creating the positive spirit in the process. From the EU, they have also said the mandate of the Management Team ends as the draft is finalised for the establishment of association.

Kosovo Assembly head Glauk Konjufca, meanwhile, has warned that Kosovo could abandon the dialogue process if an effort will be made to establish an executive competency association, as proposed by the management team leading Danijela Vujicic.

If this process has the price of destroying Kosovo, minimising the foundations of our state, then it's good to say goodbye, that there's no interest here. The normalisation comes because it is directed towards mutual recognition, normalisation does not come to destroy Kosovo's state with a Serbian republic”, Prime Minister Konjufca has said.

Kosovo, on the basis of the 2013 and 2015 agreements, has made a commitment to establishing the Association of Communities with the Serbian Majority. However, the document with the principles for its establishment was found to conflict with the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo on several points, and this had been used as an argument all along to reject the establishment of association.

Despite that, Washington and the EU centres have constantly pressured Kosovo to implement past agreements. Prime Minister Albin Kurti, after a major resistance and a controversial opposition past, had surrendered to Ohrid when he accepted the deal.