American Professor: Sanctions are set to awaken Kurti to harsh reality

Ben Meir has also criticised Prime Minister Albin Kurti for bringing the US.

He has suggested that the Kosovo prime minister should listen to the advice of Americans and Europeans.

“If Kurti were to follow the requirements put forward by the EU and the US, they would calm the atmosphere and calm disputes in the north of the country after the worst clashes in more than a decade. It would also create a favourable environment for co-operation and would end the conflict and lift sanctions”, he said.

In his response to Dukagjin, Ben Meir quoted the Kosovo Business Alliance”, which had said the government should come to its senses when it comes to relations with the EU and the US”.

The price of sanctions, according to Ben Meir, is paying citizens of Kosovo, until it emphasises that more are set for “alert Kurti to bitter reality”, which according to him “has chosen to ignore”.

The “actually, Kurti has the only two allies who care about Kosovo's future and prosperity, and the sanctions they have decided are not enough to punish Kosovo as a country, but to alert Kurti to the bitter reality he chooses to ignore while Kosovo Albanians are paying the price”, he has said.

Asked whether you think the US and the EU are playing a neutral role, punishing only Kosovo for the tense situation in the north, Ben Meir says those “do not and do not exclude Serbia's president from any responsibilities”, but, according to him, Serbia's president “, at least began meeting Brussels and Washington's requirements for withdrawing his forces from the border with Kosovo<3>.

In the end, Ben Meir is of the opinion that if the Association of Serb Major municipalities were formed, there would be no violence and tension in northern Kosovo.

The bottom line is that it is of great importance to note that if the Communist Association had been created as agreed by Kosovo many years ago, none of this would have happened. Now is the time to implement what has been agreed and hope to start a new era and fully restore the normalisation of US and EU relations and co-operation in every field, and especially their financial support, without which Kosovo will suffer much. The impact of sanctions on business, education and infrastructure is evident for all”, Professor Ben Meir has said.