The Kosovo President’s Office and the Democratic Party of Kosovo have criticized the strategy used by the country’s Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti during his July 16 meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
President Hashim Thaci’s chief of staff Bekim Collaku tweeted that the EU-mediated dialogue between the two countries was not in Kosovo’s interests and will only serve Serbia’s intentions to join the EU.
Resumption of EU led technical dialogue is not in Kosovo’s interest. It is designed to justify opening more accession chapters for Serbia while leaving Kosovo isolated under the current status quo. The aim should be a final political deal with mutual recognition.
— Bekim Çollaku (@bcollaku1) July 18, 2020
Meanwhile, PDK MP Enver Hoxhaj said that the Hoti government entered the dialogue with no coherent platform, strategy, or experience. PDK claims that the Serbian party dominated the conversation and was the one to decide on the agenda of the talks according to its own interests. They said that Hoti should have postponed the meeting until he gathered a team of experts to put together a strategy, and achieve consensus with Kosovo’s political parties.
Hoti and Vucic met in Brussels on July 16, in a summit mediated by EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell and EU special envoy Miroslav Lajcak. In the first meeting between the two countries in almost two years, they discussed missing persons, displaced persons, and economic cooperation.
