11 minutes agoDialogue goes on break, away from reconciliation for implementation of the agreement
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Despite the success promoted by the European Union after reaching the Kosovo-Serbia agreement, many points remain unmet. The parties failed even to agree at the last meeting before the dialogue went to a break in the sequence of the annex for implementation of the agreement. Knowing the circumstances has made [...]
Despite the success promoted by the European Union after reaching the Kosovo-Serbia agreement, many points remain unmet. The parties failed even to agree at the last meeting before the dialogue went to a break in the sequence of the annex for implementation of the agreement. He knows the circumstances have blamed the EU and the US for the lack of results as they have paved the necessity of dictating the process.
Documents the parties did not even put the signatures under the shadow of May and June tensions in the Serb-populated north.
Even at the last meeting, the EU's emissary for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, held separately with the parties.
As a result, he reiterated the refrain of recent months that urgently take steps to intensify the situation in the north and to mark progress in normalising relations between the two countries.
The American expert on the Balkan issue, Daniel Serwer, has blamed the EU and the United States for the lack of results in dialogue.
“The EU and the US are failing both Pristina and Belgrade. President Vuciq has made it clear that there are no obligations for agreements reached in February and March. Prime Minister Kurti has made it clear that he will not move with the Association of Communities with the Serb Majority without imposing order and law in northern Kosovo. Americans and Europeans are not willing to put pressure on Vucinqi. Their pressure on Kurt has not yielded results”, Cerer said, KOHA reports.
Without will, Serwer finds the dynamism of this process difficult.
The question is to political will. There is neither in Belgrade nor in Pristina. That's what I agree with Gabriel Escobar. However, the US has used many sticks with Pristina and many carrots with Belgrade. Washington must rebalancing its” policy, he added.
American Emissar Gabriel Escobar, during reporting before Congress, expressed concern over the lack of access between Kosovo and the US.
While repeating that Kosovo must meet the obligation to establish association, Escobar has warned consequences for Serbia if Serbs do not participate in the north.
Larger clashes have produced points that speak of self-advancing Serbs in municipalities that are populated by them.
Serbia continues to insist that dialogue be developed for establishing the Association of Serb-run municipalities, as long as a specific issue for the Government of Kosovo such as Association cannot have superiority over other provisions of the deal.
Calls for implementing the basic agreement and avoiding tensions have also been made by Albania's prime minister, Edi Rama.
He has urged the European Union on Thursday to act decisively so that the region will not remain hostage to an endless crisis because of Kosovo and Serbia.
“The EU must act decisively to ensure a rapid implementation of the Base Agreement. Our region cannot become a hostage to an endless crisis between Kosovo and Serbia. Nor can we allow northern Kosovo, where the border between organised crime and local politics is unclear, to become a small Donbas from the non-responsives driven by Russia, nor dialogue become a blaming game of the Old Balkans, due to the lack of a real and strong will of parties involved in the”, Rama has said.
During recent tensions in the north, 93 KFOR members remained injured. Kosovo Police officials and journalists were the target of attacks by violent protesters.
