Sunday, March 13, 2011

KOSOVO - Negotiate with Serbia, yes, but as a sovereign state!

In its reports, the European Commission has often - and rightly - criticized the Kosovo Parliament to neglect his work as representative body of citizens. But today is the international community has preferred to that proceeding with a fait accompli on dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade. Instead of being the place where the strategy is preparing for these negotiations, the Parliament of Kosovo is the last debate and at the last moment.

As if to save face. Kosovo's parliament has yet to play a role: it should compel the government to say that this dialogue can take place between two sovereign and independent States, as well as the European Parliament has stated that "neither the status of Kosovo, or its territorial integrity can not be discussed, "any institution of Kosovo did formally said.

[These talks under the auspices of the EU will not officially on practical issues to improve the daily lives of citizens of Serbia and Kosovo]. Kosovo citizens are worried about it because they have little confidence in the sincerity of their leaders whose opinions and alliances are often very opportunistic.

So, as Brussels has made clear that "Kosovo can not prevent the progress of Serbia towards the EU," and that Kosovo was proclaimed independent by accepting the "Ahtisaari plan" as a compromise [the name of Martti Ahtisaari, UN special envoy and former Finnish president, whose plan was to give significant autonomy to the northern part of Kosovo where Serbs are the majority], the Kosovar parliament should guide its representative on the topics March 8 [the head of the Kosovar negotiating team is the Deputy Prime Minister, Edita Tahiri].

It must also prepare alternative strategies if the issue of partition is back on the carpet. Because there is a danger is a de facto partition of Kosovo, and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci knows this. Even today, in Brussels says it must start from the reality on the ground and not the Ahtisaari plan.

And the reality is that Kosovo's government no longer exercises its power in the north. This would justify that this part of Kosovo is no longer managed by Pristina. Parliament must then remember that the Ahtisaari Plan was an international compromise, ratified by the Kosovo and it also relates to the north.

Kosovo's government must also understand that much of the opposition and civil society is not against the dialogue itself, but against how it is addressed. The movement, Vetevendosje [Self-determination, which advocates the departure of international troops and a "real independence" of Kosovo], become a respectable political force in Parliament must be taken seriously, as the opposition parties who are refractory in this dialogue.

These political forces that represent the majority of the people of Kosovo have a great responsibility. They have boycotted the election Begjet Pacolli [the newly elected President by a very narrow majority], but said they would attend meetings parliamentarians. So they exploit this opportunity to save what can still be in the process in which Parliament has so far been rejected.

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