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Kosovo’s Kurti: Dialogue with local Serbs, then with Belgrade

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The leader of the Self-Determination Kosovo movement and most likely new Prime Minister, Albin Kurti said on Friday that if he formed a new cabinet, he would immediately start a dialogue with local Serbs and would resume talks with Belgrade after Serbia’s general elections due in spring, the FoNet news agency reported.

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He also said that new government would analyse all 33 agreements with Belgrade signed in Brussels during the dialogue on the normalisation of relations.

“We have to look at all 33 agreements with Serbia not because we are obsessed with the past, but to estimate the situation and learn the history lessons to be able to go to the future safely,” Kurti said.

He added that new general elections in Kosovo, which might happen if the parties could not agree on a government, would be “the worst scenario."

Belgrade and Pristina had been negotiating for years under the European Union auspices and signed those agreements, some of which neither side wholly fulfilled.

The dialogue stopped in November 2018, after Pristina introduced the 100 percent import tariffs on goods from Serbia in response to Belgarde's diplomatic offensive to prevent Kosovo from joining Interpol. Pristina has been rejecting to suspend or lift them ever since despite pressure from both the US and EU.

Belgrade maintains it won’t resume the talks as long as the taxes are in place.        

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