The release of the Kosovo policemen and the meeting in Brussels/ Reagon Rama

2023-06-26 11:20:00, Aktualitet CNA

Prime Minister Edi Rama reacted to the news about the release of three Kosovo Police officers and revealed details of the meeting in Brussels that will be held today.

"The return of the Kosovo policemen to their homes is delayed news, but still very good, because the first one puts an end to the arbitrary deprivation of liberty of three people who have not committed any crime, and the second one, reopens the way escalation of dialogue. I am glad that the force of reason won over the reason of force. I wish that with the force of reason, the long-awaited de-escalation by all will start immediately and we will further resolve the knots of the final normalization process between Kosovo and Serbia.

We have just arrived in Brussels, where shortly I will meet with the President of the European Council, the precious friend of Albania and our region, Charles Michel. I will convey to our friend the great concerns about the critical situation in the region and my conviction on the necessity of a conference without a time limit, where closed within the walls of a welcoming structure under the auspices of the Euro-Atlantic community, the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia must to conclude all points of the normalization agreement.

Unfortunately, lately both sides have their eyes on the front of domestic politics and polls fueled by nationalist rhetoric. While the vital dialogue for the future of the entire region and relations with the democratic world have been turned away. Meanwhile, the situation in the North degrades by the hour and by the minute, increasing the possibility of a Balkan "Donbas" in the heart of Europe. This possibility is catastrophic to even think about, so it must be eliminated at all costs.

The strategic myopia in the approach to the dialogue, the delay of the excellent Franco-German plan, the deviation of the focus on the demonstrations of force and, as a result, the degradation of the situation in the North, can cost the whole region, Serbia without a doubt, but especially Kosovo more than anyone else, an untimely return, with long-term consequences.

Albania will do its best to prevent this from happening, because it would be madness for the fragile peace we have built throughout these years, in the framework of the Berlin Process and through various initiatives, to be destroyed like a sandcastle by the return of the wave of Balkan nonsense, throwing us all off the path of European integration, into the old powder keg in the middle of Europe," writes Rama.