The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, and the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vuçi., Are expected to meet on Tuesday in Brussels, for the first time face to face in the framework of negotiations mediated by the European Union.
The meeting is expected to reopen the process of efforts to normalize relations between the two countries aspiring to European integration. Analysts in Pristina do not expect any change in the approach of both parties during Tuesday’s meeting.
The executive director of the Balkan Policy-Making Group, Naim Rashiti, says the first meetings are always difficult and will be the same tomorrow.
“Now we are talking about two strong political parameters, difficult second characters and how they will face each other in these meetings. “I do not expect tomorrow’s meeting to reveal in detail the attitudes towards each other, to vent in some form those public attitudes at the table and eventually to set a new dynamic of meetings.” he says.
Arbër Fetahu from the Group for Legal and Political Studies says that the first meeting will address the modalities and principles for the development of talks.
“Taking into account the attitudes of the two leaders of the state, both Kosovo and Serbia, it is not far from the mind that in the first meeting, substantial topics may be opened, maybe even hot topics for both parties that are already known to the public as it is. the issue of the Association and the issue of recognition of Kosovo by Serbia or even missing persons but dealing with the logical flow and how the theories of negotiations are developed as it is the first official meeting between the new leader of Kosovo Mr. Kurti and that of “Serbia should have a minimum agreement on the principles, expectations and process should be defined from the beginning.”, said Mr. Fetahu.
Mr Rashiti says the European Union’s battle in the talks is an attempt to approximate a final agreement.
“It can be called a new step, a new dialogue and a new framework can be built, different from what we had before, but of course there is a request to deal with the implementation of past agreements and here we will see with which the agenda will be Kosovo in fact, and second how the parties will agree. It would have been very good for the government of Kosovo to have two very sharp agendas that have to do with the introduction of a final agreement in the process, the implementation of as many agreements as possible that are seen as beneficiaries of these agreements, repackaging of the whole final agreement where the Association can be included “, said Mr. Rashiti.
“It is very important to see whether this will be a new dialogue for a mind or it will be a continuation of a cycle that has been in the past or will this cesarean section be done in the sense of pushing forward with a new dynamics that we can see new results maybe even new topics that have not been seen so far or will be a continuation of an old dialogue and with the continuation of topics that have been so far without changing maybe too much even dialogue style ”, said Arbër Fetahu from the Group for Legal and Political Studies.
Analysts say Kosovo should take a strategic stance against US involvement in the process, urging official Washington not to be part of the mediation but to oversee the safeguarding of Kosovo’s interests in the talks.