TIRANA, May 8 – Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said on Wednesday there is reason to suspect that Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, have discussed Kosovo’s partition.
He made these comments during a debate organized by the Kosovo Democratic Institute on the “Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue after the Berlin Summit.”
Haradinaj said that discussions on the partition of Kosovo were made under the leadership of European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini.
“There is a grounded suspicion that Mr. Vucic, Mr. Thaci and Mr. Rama held discussions regarding the partition of Kosovo, there is this grounded suspicion but can not confirm and there is this grounded suspicion that this was done under the leadership of Mogherini. I hope they apologize to each other for their wasted time and for the wasted time of their people and the EU,” Haradinaj said.
Haradinaj said that these ideas were also introduced to some of the governments of countries that are Kosovo’s friends.
“There has been a great insistence in the past from Balkan leaders, when I say Balkan leaders unfortunately I don’t mean only those from Kosovo or Serbia, but some, at least three, for this to be the solution. And some of the governments or very few governments of the Quint countries have considered this because the heads of the country have. Now they are much clearer and they see it as a wrong direction,” said Haradinaj.
He said that the process of talks led by Mogherini will not continue because, according to him, very soon her mandate will end.
He also called for Kosovo not to be pressured to suspend the imposed tariffs on Serbian goods, as this would not happen.
“It is a mistake for both Washington and Europeans, both Berlin and Paris, to accept Serbia’s condition that in order for the negotiations to continue Kosovo should lift the tariff,” Haradinaj said.
Germany and France have called for a next Berlin meeting, expected to be held on July 1st in Paris to open way to the possibility of resuming talks between Kosovo and Serbia, which remain suspended from November last year after Serbia’s reaction towards the Kosovo government’s decision to set 100 percent tariffs on Serbian and Bosnian goods.
Belgrade demands their removal as a condition for resuming talks, while international pressure failed to convince Prime Minister Haradinaj of such a thing.
