Swiss Secretary of State meets Lajcak: Brussels/Ohri historic moment agreement

After the end of the meeting, the Swiss diplomat through a post on her social network on Twitter has reaffirmed Switzerland's support for the process of normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia.

She has written, among other things, that the agreement initially agreed on February 27th in Brussels and then on March 18th in Ohrid, North Macedonia in the middle of Albin Kurti and Aleksandar Vucicić is a historic moment.

“Regional stability in the Western Balkans and Kosovo-Serbia normalisation: At today's meeting with emissar Lajcak I reaffirmed Switzerland's support for the EU normalisation process. Recent agreements are historic moments, implementation requires the political will of both sides”, Livia Leu wrote.

The Slovak diplomat who, through a post on his social network on Twitter, has also spoken of the meeting in question, has indicated that Switzerland strongly and actively supports the process of dialogue facilitated by the EU for normalising relations.

Unlike in the upcoming high-level meeting under Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Albin Kurti and Aleksandar Vucic, adopted the declaration of the Missing Persons and were introduced with the first draft state of the Serbian Major Commission Association, which was introduced by the Managing Team for drafting the draft of this mechanism led by the Serbian MP, Danijela Vujic.

After the meeting, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said the draft statute presented in Brussels on Tuesday by the team in question is unacceptable, since it is contrary to the Kosovo Constitution after clearly presenting a wish for Republika Srpska in Kosovo.

In spite of that, Kurti indicated that Kosovo is interested in finding a solution to the issue, so the same indicated that he has presented a draft vision relevant to Article 7 of the agreement originally agreed on February 27th in Brussels and then April 18th in Ohrid, North Macedonia.

The model of the Kosovo Government proposed for Association is similar to the Joint Council of Serbian Communities (Zieedničko v e opština ZVO), which gathered municipalities where Serbs live in eastern Croatia.

The version I proposed, I can say, was inspired by an agreement Serbia has made for normalisation. It is the agreement between Serbia and Croatia on normalisation. I am inspired by that model [...] I believe it's the right model for us as well”, Kurt said.

Unlike Kurti, who said he refused the dram-statut introduced at the May 2nd session, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Josep Borrell, announced that Draft-Sttuti, presented by the Kosovo Serb-made Managing Team, would be the starting point for implementation of the majority municipalities' Association.

The “Piles took an important and symbolic step towards implementing the Association of Serb majority municipalities hired 10 years ago. Today the Management Team consisting of Kosovo Serbs introduced the first draft. It's not the final draft, it's the starting point, it's the first draft of the Association Act”.

Borrell stated what happened at the summit within Kosovo-Serbia dialogue between Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vucic, was “in line with Article 7 of the new”.

This draft is put on the table and was important”, he said, acknowledging that both sides have very separate opinions about what this mechanism should be about the Serb community living in Kosovo.

“Kurti gave his views on protecting the rights of Kosovo Serbs and, as expected, the views of the parties are far apart. I didn't expect anything else, I was sure the parties would have different views. But despite differences, they agreed to start negotiations”, Borrell confirmed.

A day after the meeting -- exactly on May 3rd -- Local Power Management Minister Elbert Krasniqi announced he has relieved members of the Management Team, called for drafting the draft association status, writes the Albanian Post.

Krasniqi said his decision is based on the Brussels Accords for normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia.