Deputy leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) Lutfi Haziri said today at the “Vox populi on the Grand Finale between Kosovo and Serbia” conference organised by the Research Institute for Development and European Affairs (RIDEA) that his party has requested political legitimacy and broad consensus on moving towards an agreement with Serbia. “LDK as the largest opposition party views the dialogue as an option, tool to resolve problems but it needs to be built on the principle of political clarity,” Haziri said adding: “We cannot resolve problems with our century-old enemy without consensus.” He said LDK has offered ways to achieve legitimacy through a full review of the government and other institutions as well as of the dialogue structure. “This provides a way for legitimacy to be reached at the Assembly of Kosovo and use the will of the people as the basis for the platform for solving problems with Serbia. Dialogue has recently gone through a metamorphosis and alternative ways need to be sought out,” Haziri noted. He further called on all political parties to sit together and come up with a unified position and give a date when the process of dialogue is expected to end. Haziri also said that he personally favours the idea of Presevo Valley joining Kosovo but underlined that this should not result in Kosovo giving away its territory to Serbia in exchange.
