Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama has asked upon the European Union to act to ensure a “quick implementation” of the Basic Agreement between Kosova and Serbia.

In a post on Twitter, while spreading the announcement of the EU Envoy for dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, about the meeting with the two chief negotiators, Rama writes that the region cannot become a hostage “to an endless crisis” between Kosova and Serbia.

According to the head of the Albanian government, it cannot be allowed that Northern Kosova turns into a “small Donbas” or that the dialogue becomes “a blaming game of the Old Balkans”.

“The EU must act decisively to ensure a swift implementation of the Framework Agreement. Our region cannot become hostage to an endless crisis between Kosova and Serbia. Neither can we allow that Northern Kosova, where the border between organized crime and local politics is unclear, to become a little Donbas due to the rise instigated by Russia, nor the Dialogue to become a blame game of the Old Balkans, due to the lack of a real and strong will of the parties involved in it! Discussions are good, but what the region needs is progress before it is too late,” writes Rama.

In the frame of the dialogue between Kosova and Serbia, the EU envoy Lajcak held a meeting with the chief negotiators of both countries this Wednesday (July 20) in Brussels. After the meeting, the chief negotiator of Kosova, Besnik Bislimi, said that Lajcak’s drafts were one-sided and that they pay more attention to Serbia’s demands.

Lajcak himself reacted with a post on Twitter, where he wrote that a long list of issues related to the dialogue was discussed at the meeting, starting with the implementation of the agreement reached on February 27 between Kosova and Serbia and the de-escalation of the situation in the north. He added that there will be further discussions.

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