Kosovo academic Rexhep Qosja requested for the proposals of the United States of America to be considered carefully by Kosovo leaders. He told News 24 that in majority of cases, issues between the countries in Balkans were resolved by superpowers.
Asked if Vetevendosje’s agenda should be in accordance with that of Washington or Berlin, Qosja said that the U.S. have nominated their envoy who will participate in these discussions between the parties. “Now, I do not know if requests and proposals of the EU and U.S. will be considered by the government of Kosovo, but I do know one thing from eastern crisis, issues among the countries, not always but in majority of cases were resolved as greater powers requested. Will this happen between Kosovo and Serbia, we will see. The U.S. and EU proposals for the solution of problems should be considered with a great caution. The U.S. is a country of major importance for the situation of the state. We should have in mind their commitment for Kosovo.
Asked if it will be easy or difficult for Albin Kurti to face the international pressure, Qosja said “We still do not know what character that international pressure will have. We can suppose that they might request an exchange of territories, a part of the North for Presevo Valley, experts would determine how much of territory. But if we want the Kosovo issue, disagreement between Kosovo and Serbia, to be historically resolved, we should also consider this possibility of territorial exchange. I am aware that this opinion has very small number of supporters. They agreed about the border with Montenegro, where Kosovo gave away around nine thousand hectares of land, why do these men then treat the idea of exchange of territories as anti-national? Anyways let us see what the U.S. and EU will propose. “
“We have a problem now: creation of this government. Something that happened today does not leave an impression that this government will establish easily. Some political parties requested vote recount, those three political parties, LDK, PDK and NISMA+AKR. Why now when counting of voted has not concluded yet, when the final result is not known yet, why did they request now? Was it to postpone creation of the new government? This was a disappointing request not only for those who support VV but for the political situation in general. It is the prime time to agree among us. Considering interest of the population, interests of the state, Kosovo’s interests, interests of the Albanian nation in general,” Qosja said.