Bodo Weber, an expert on the Balkans and a senior associate of the Council for Democratization Policy in Berlin, believes that the problem in the talks between Western mediators with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and the Prime Minister of Pristina’s interim institutions, Albin Kurti, is that these talks are being held behind closed doors. The non-disclosure of details from the meetings of Western mediators with the Prime Minister of the temporary institutions of Pristina, Albin Kurti, and the President of Serbia, Vučić, is a signal that there is still a blockage in the dialogue process between Belgrade and Pristina, said Weber in an interview for Free Europe.
He also does not rule out possible crises in the north of Kosovo, as long as, as he says, the agreements are not announced and the parties are not given the opportunity to interpret them differently.
“I think that was the main point of Vučić and the Serbian regime in the talks about the proposal for the exchange of territories,” Weber said.
In his opinion, it is in some way an attempt to deviate from the essence of the dialogue from the first talks. Weber claims that from the beginning of the political dialogue in 2012 and 2013, it was clear that the dialogue should end with the acceptance of Kosovo’s independence and finally with the formal legal recognition of this independence by Serbia.
