Former UN official: Kosovo government does not have any positive political strategy

Kosovo Central Bank's new regulation, which banned the use of Serbian state currency, Dinarin, for trading and financial transactions, many political analysts argued as a political strategy of the Government of Kosovo to gain time and prolongation as much as the implementation of the Serb Major Community Association.

However, the former senior US State Department official Jonathan Moore has not been hired, since Kosovo's Government is not providing any evidence of a positive political strategy, according to him.

The “Association has always been intended only to reflect the capacities that all municipalities in Kosovo have, allowing municipalities with Serb majority populations to work together”, he says in an interview for Albanian Post.

A real political strategy, according to the former US ambassador to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation Mission in Europe (OSBE) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, would show Kosovo's respect for democratic practices and social institutions, opening the door to association, impressing its international partners.

The government would quickly implement the court's decisions as it did with regard to Decani's (Manastir) and encourage economic growth through clear support for Kosovo's impressive entrepreneurs”.

By comparison, in many ways, he estimates, Albania offers a different and far more effective model.

Taken to the missing consolidation of Kosovo's citizenship and its need for international community assistance to achieve its goals in the international arena, the career diplomat takes as an example the Swedish and Finland's NATO membership process to reflect the importance of co-operation with the West.

“Look at the process Sweden and Finland just passed to join NATO, and both countries have well-consolidised and sovereign democracies. There are EU and NATO members who do not recognise Kosovo. On this issue, Kosovo is not close to UN membership”, he adds,

Asked what impact elections in the European Union and the US will have on the prosperity of the dialogue process, he was in charge of working at the US Embassy in Belarus and former deputy head of mission at US embassies in Namibia, Belarus and Bosnia and Herzegovina, points out that no one in Kosovo should expect the world to solve their problems.

Since in his assessment what Kosovo should do is take positive steps and show the ability to manage policies in that way to gain positive support in return. /Albanian Post/