The Belgrade – Pristina talks will be difficult and complicated, and the negotiators will “fight” over the smallest details, while sharp public reactions are expected, Belgrade-based Politika daily acting editor-in-chief told N1.
Zarko Rakic added that “we will see how the current regime would manage to cushion them.”
He added it would be difficult for Belgrade’s authorities “to precisely and convincingly explain to people why the moment for negotiation is now.”
“We currently have a frozen conflict, and Serbia’s economy is improving. And you have to persuade the nation that the economic growth would be higher when there isn’t the frozen conflict anymore.”
“Even that is hard to clarify,” Rakic said, but added it was possible to precisely calculate how much the economic growth had suffered and how much money the country had lost due to that frozen conflict. “
“The frozen conflict lasts for two centuries, and it surely cannot be solved in a series of talks in Brussels. The time has come for real negotiations and if you want that you must take a negotiating position. And that is what is happening now – both sides are trying to do that,” he said.
Rakic believes that the talks on Kosovo’s future will probably be the longest negotiating process because any imprecision would open doors to different interpretations.
