TIRANA, October 10 – Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said at the 102nd Rose-Roth Seminar of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly held in Pristina that he is now more optimistic about the dialogue to achieve an agreement with Serbia as there is a new approach on the agenda of Brussels.
“I am optimistic about the dialogue in Brussels because it was created by us with the right and fair approach, and this is the general framework of the agreement. Dialogue should not serve only for crisis management and become dialogue for dialogue, but dialogue for agreement. Now we have entered a new phase since August 18 of this year, because the first topic in the office of Mr. Borell was the general framework of the agreement, that is, dialogue about the agreement and we will discuss this agreement,” Kurti said as reported by RTK on Sunday.
Further the prime minister said that he had this optimism considering the fact that unlike in the past when the recognition of independence was at the end of the process and it was turning this approach into Serbia’s motivation for delaying the process, now mutual recognition is at the center of the agreement.
“Because if you tell Serbia that independence will come at the end, you just encourage Serbia to postpone the end. But now mutual recognition is not at the end of the process but at the center of the agreement. I’m not saying that there won’t be other points in the agreement, but the central part has to do with mutual recognition,” said Kurti.
In conclusion the Kosovo PM underlined: “This new approach, i.e. with the new agenda in Brussels, which aims at having a general framework for agreement as the number one topic of the talks makes me optimistic for the months ahead and for reaching a legally binding agreement” /Argumentum.al
