Serwer: Dialogue can only continue on technical issues, not on political ones

The measures Serbia's President Aleksandar Vuciq presented to the president, supposedly protecting Kosovo Serbs, in the prism of Daniel Serwer, professor at the University of “Johns Hopkins” in the United States of America (SHBA), make clear one thing: dialogue can continue only on technical issues, but not on political issues.

In an address to the Serbian people late last week, Vuciq requested the return of Serbs to Kosovo institutions, including their return to the Kosovo Regional Police Directorate for the North, the return of Serbian judges and prosecutors, and the holding of local elections in four northern Kosovo municipalities, although it had personally ordered Serbs to leave all these institutions.

Besides these, he also called for the formation of the Serbian Majora Commission Association, the withdrawal of Kosovo Police Special Units from the North, but also the possibility of unbroken payment transactions and postal services.

After analyzing these so-called demands of the Serbian leader, Serwer, as the early guardian of developments in the Western Balkans, in a proposal for the Albanian Post, deciphers, according to his analysis, Vuciq's message.

President Vuciq has made it clear that he will never accept Kosovo's independence”, the American professor thinks.

But, this position, according to Serwer, has cost to Serbia, and on the other hand it also relates to an issue which Vucinic constantly demands for Kosovo Serbs: The Serbian Major Community Association.

“This is an election that excludes EU membership for Serbia during its time in power and means Pristina will not accept association”, states.

With this situation created, in the assessment of the professor targeting developments in the Balkans, the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, mediated by the European Union, can continue, but, he adds, “on technical and non-political issues”.

Serbian presidential measures have also been commented on by the US State Department (DASH).

Having not given a clear stand on them, by the UN have said the future of Kosovo and Serbia is in the institutions of the European Union and that the dialogue between them, mediated by the Union, is the only way forward.

This Attitude The UN has been given a spokesman for “Radio Free Europe”, where it stressed that the US “continues to strongly support dialogue facilitated by the EU between Kosovo and Serbia, as a way to achieve a peaceful and productive relationship between the two countries”.

He has called on Kosovo and Serbia to refrain from further escalating rhetoric, uncoordinated actions or legislative acts that clash with the normalisation of their relations or endangering stability and security”.

While, on behalf of the EU, for these measures, spokesman Peter Stano has said the Union welcomes Vuciki's readiness for “constructive commitment” in dialogue for normalisation of relations with Kosovo.

“We welcome the readiness expressed by President Vuciq to continue engagement in the EU facilitated dialogue. We take his call to Kosovo Serbs, to participate in the Kosovo elections and to re-integration into all Kosovo institutions, from which they left in 2022”, Stano has said.

Vuciqi's measures and requirements have also been commented on by Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti.

Kurt has no dilemmas that they're made of despair and represent irrationality.

Before taking issue with Vuciqi's measures and requirements, the prime minister asked that conditions he had put ahead of several months for continuing dialogue.

“are the surrender of Kosovo authorities to Milan Radojciqi, the signing of the agreement, and the withdrawal of former Prime Minister Anna Brnabiq's letter, which said he does not accept either Kosovo's independence or sat in the UN for Kosovo, nor respects territorial integrity”, reiterated his terms.

So these three conditions, in its prism, are peaceful and rational, and those demands of Vuchiq “the measures that are made of despair and represent irrationality and are not at all peaceful, but rather part of the aggressive campaign for new conflicts that obviously have no place either in Kosovo or in the” region.