In exchange for whom was the Association formed?

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Relevance – a topic that has been dragged on for more than ten years The US and EU’s response to this move ‘Dialogue failed’Who will handle the dialogue?

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani believes that Serbia has withdrawn from the agreement to normalize relations with Kosovo and believes that if Serbia establishes relations with KosovoAssociation of Cities with a Serb Majorityinternational allies must provide security guarantees.

“It is meaningless to implement the agreement without security guarantees and without joining international organizations,”Osmani told Radio Free Europereferring to Kosovo’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) andEuropean Commissionand activationPromotional activitieswait.

Daniel Serwer, a professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States and an expert on development issues in the Balkans, likes her approach: “She is absolutely right when she wants to change the focus from implementing an agreement that did not exist when she discussed it with other countries. Friends of Kosovo discuss what measures (Kosovo) should take to achieve its goals.”

Kosovo and Serbia reached agreement onAgree on normalizing relationsin the first few months of 2023, but no steps have been taken to implement it.

In the months leading up to new EU leadership and a new US administration, the outlook is even bleaker.Presidential elections in NovemberAjie.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti on August 21Senator Chris MurphyThe United States said Kosovo was committed to implementing the agreement, but that Serbia must accept it to do so.

Last December, former Serbian Prime Minister AnaburnabicWrote them a letterHe confirmed to European officials that Serbia has red lines in implementing the normalization agreement.

Relevance – a topic that has been dragged on for more than ten years

Since 2013, the issue of the association’s formation has been a topic of much concern.

The two parties had reached an agreement on its establishment in the past because A draft has been prepared and suggestions from all sides, but the association was never established.

Osmani says Kosovo will not hesitate to send a Western Draft for the Constitutional Court to consider, but opposed unilateral implementation of the agreement.

protocol It demands respect for the territorial integrity of the two countries and that Serbia does not oppose Kosovo’s process of joining international organizations.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has repeatedly said that Serbia will neither recognize Kosovo’s citizenship nor allow it to join the United Nations.

Servil believes Kosovo should form the association Only at the end of the conversationWhen Serbia recognized Kosovo citizenship, Kosovo’s security guarantees were supposed to be made by the ally through an official document, out of fear that Belgrade could abuse it.

*Daniel Serwer, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, USA*

The US and EU’s response to this move

Osmani said he had been discussing the issue with international allies for a year but had not received a concrete response.

Even Radio Free Europe received no response from NATO after asking for comment on its intentions in Kosovo.

Meanwhile, a US State Department spokesman told Radio Free Europe that he hopes Kosovo and Serbia will implement the agreements reached in the dialogue.Without delay and without preconditions: “For Kosovo, this includes the establishment of the Association”.

EU spokesman Peter Stano said the implementation of the agreement was crucial to the two countries’ path towards Brexit.EU membershipand said that “regrettably, little progress has been made in fulfilling obligations.”

The agreement document was never signed by the parties, but the EU insists it isBindingaccording to international law.

‘Dialogue failed’

Serwer believes it should be accepted by everyoneBrussels talks failedThe agenda and priorities must change because the two neighbours must talk to each other.

“The priority isMaintaining territorial integrity and sovereigntyAll Balkan countries. Kosovo should be recognized by the world and accepted by the United Nations”.

Asked how the dynamics of the dialogue would change after the new president took office in the United States in January, he said prior knowledge of the Balkans by new officials was not a requirement for success.

“I have advised many American ambassadors to the Balkans, some of whom have never dealt with the region but have done a great job. I do not take responsibility for advising losers. They talked to me but did not follow my advice.”