Analysts: While Serbia is on the offensive to strengthen relations with the USA, Kosovo's leaders are being ignored everywhere

At a time when Serbia is on a diplomatic offensive to improve relations with the USA, Kosovo's diplomacy has surrendered, representatives of Pristina have not had any significant visits abroad for months, and Kosovo's participation in the international arena has been limited to attendance at multilateral seminars and summits, Nacionale report.

Analyst Visar Ymeri assessed that Serbia "takes advantage of the absence of Kosovo in the international arena".

"Serbian-American relations are improving extremely and quickly. We also saw the visit and meeting of Derek Chollet with the Ambassador of Serbia in Washington. He invests a lot there, and we don't. Our diplomacy has failed. Not that it didn't make new acquaintances, but it withdrew completely. They deal with absolutely unimportant things," Ymeri said.

Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Petrit Selimi, wrote on the "X" social network that Kosovo's diplomacy had been reduced to seminars and summits.

"Conference in Athens, another annual event in Alpbach, third in Bled. Our diplomacy is now reduced to participating in ex officio panels at multilateral seminars and summits," Selimi said.

He added that representatives of Pristina institutions were isolated.

"Recently, there have been no bilateral visits of strategic importance, zero visits to all continents, isolation at home," Selimi said.

The former chief negotiator of Kosovo for the dialogue with Serbia, Edita Tahiri, estimated that the "US punishment" was costing Kosovo in the field of foreign policy.

She also wrote on her "Facebook" profile that Kosovo's leaders were stuck at home, participating only in regional meetings.

"The US punishment costs money! The trio of the country is stuck at home, now they are running for invitations to regional meetings, and even two or three are going to the same meetings, begging for the lifting of sanctions on Kosovo. The ugly fall of Kosovo's diplomacy!” Tahiri wrote.

Nacionale indicates that Kosovo is ignored even in regional forums. At the Bled Forum, the French Minister for European Affairs, Laurence Boone, did not meet with Donika Gervalla, but she had meetings with other heads of diplomacy from the region - with Bujar Osmani, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia, with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania Megi Fino, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Elmedin Konakovic, and with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Ivica Dacic.

Since the EU introduced punitive measures against Kosovo, there have been no visits by important Western officials to Pristina, according to Nacionale.