Rama for the meeting in Brussels: Don't be a repeat song The other person has it

A day before Prime Minister Kurti's meeting with Serbian President Vuciq in Brussels, Rama says he hopes it will not be an empty lap.

The “leaders of Kosovo and Serbia will meet in Brussels, and I, as always, pray not to be another empty lap, for another repeat of the song “fay is the other”. Despite our close ties and the unique relationship perhaps in the world with Kosovo, like the other Albanian state at the border with Albania, we have been, we are, and will be fully matched to the line of efforts of the United States and the European Union, to realise the normalisation plan of relations between Kosovo and Serbia. Not because our great strategic allies are always, necessarily, right, but because until now they have never been wrong in their application to the two countries, and finally Kosovo, especially”.

Rama criticised Kosovo for recent actions and said it has unilaterally cancelled the joint Kosovo- Albania and that it would do so again in such a context.

This June, during the peak of tensions in Kosovo's northern municipalities, with regret, we unilaterally cancelled the joint meeting of the two governments with Kosovo, which was long planned. A hundred times to go back a hundred times we would cancel, because first, Albania is a responsible member of the Euro-Atlantic community even when it has to be positioned in relation to its own mistakes, and no longer when it should be positioned in relation to Kosovo's mistakes or then with those of others. And second, because it was the wrong moment to throw a double sword dance in Prizren, while Kosovo should be on the future side, side by side with its strategic allies, not on the side of the past, from which the poisonous theories of the Albanian conspiracy (4)x1> are fed.

The Albanian prime minister said it is for the establishment of Association and for Kosovo to implement international agreements.

“Then, aware that it was an unusual movement, I presented to our strategic allies the contribution of Albania in ongoing discussions about the creation of the Serb majority municipalities' association, because I fully agree with them on the need for rigorous implementation of all that the state of Kosovo has pledged. Governments live, but serious states do not put into their international pledges the same as governments”.

But Rama s'e leaves Kosovo alone guilty of inexorable dialogue. It even conditions the Albania-Serbia reports if Serbia is declared responsible in the process.

“But I have to replay it, that the higher it does not mean that Albania views Kosovo as the only responsible for bringing dialogue to the dead end. No. Kosovo took a considerable step in the long-awaited direction, accepting the Franco-German plan without reference for mutual recognition and also acknowledging the proposal of self-management for the Serb community. I immediately applauded Albin Kurti for this step and publicly, not just personally. Now is the time for Serbia to get out of the ditch of denial of reality and act in trust, enabling a process of implementation that meets the needs of both sides within the Franco-German plan. Albania has extended the hand of friendship to Serbia. Ironically, it has in some case happened to be the only country in the region that has spoken out against sanctions against Serbia and we have clearly explained why we are convinced of this stance. However, and this should be highlighted, a successful conclusion of the normalisation process between Kosovo and Serbia is necessary even for the stable future of Albania-Serbia relations”, Rama said.

Rama says Kosovo is pursuing tactics that harm it and help Serbia victimise before internationals.

Unfortunately, as I try without success to understand the Kosovo government's tactics, I remain just as unsuccessful in trying to understand Serbia's dialogue strategy. I doubt that Belgrade's strategy is to delay the process and benefit as much from Pristina's self-damaging tactics, which have consistently assisted Serbia's sacrifice in the international arena”.

Rama said that the successful conclusion of the normalisation process of Kosovo and Serbia is key to regional peace and security, as well as to Europe's own security.