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Palokaj: An agreement with one hundred interpretations (Koha Ditore)

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Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj writes in an opinion piece that “more than other normal international agreements, the agreement reached on Friday remains open for interpretation. And quite bizarrely, anything the parties say they can be right. They can also be wrong. Two things however are correct and they are the most important. First, with the agreement Serbia has really agreed not to have its state structures in Kosovo’s territory and that there will be only one judicial and police system in Kosovo. But Serbia is right when it says that it has been removed from the document the part which required Serbia to pledge it would not impede Kosovo’s membership in international organizations and this part was removed after Serbia’s request”. Palokaj notes that the Vetëvendosje Movement remained the only serious political force in Kosovo to reject the agreement. In Serbia meanwhile, the agreement was rejected by radicals, former associates of President Nikolic and Deputy Prime Minister Vucic, and by the party of former Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Palokaj argues that dialogue with Serbia was not something Kosovo could reject. “This is why one needs to be responsible when criticizing the readiness to dialogue with Belgrade. What the Government of Kosovo did during this dialogue was damage inflicted by making immature, and as the text of the agreement now proves, untrue statements. Starting from President Jahjaga, Prime Minister Thaçi to the chief negotiator of ‘technical dialogue’ Edita Tahiri, the Kosovar side did not speak the truth when it talked about dialogue. Let us recall only some of those statements: ‘There will never be political dialogue with Serbia’ or ‘Under no circumstance will we discuss Kosovo’s internal arrangements with Serbia’ and the now-famous statement by the president in Brussels that ‘the issue of the north does not exist and it is not discussed in dialogue’. The text of the agreement now shows how untrue these statements were. All points of the agreement, with the exception of point 14, talk only about Kosovo’s internal arrangements… It would be good for Kosovo’s politicians to finally realize that it is not serious to talk about things they know are not true… We will hear a hundred interpretations of this agreement in the future. There will also be other agreements. Their success will not be measured by pompous statements about ‘historic importance’ but based on how much they will change the situation on the ground.”

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