Lepaja: The key message the Quint brings to Belgrade and Pristina is that the commitments made must be fulfilled

Political analyst Fadil Lepaja stated for Kosovo Online that the main message the Quint representatives from the EU, the US, France, Germany, and Italy would bring to Belgrade and Pristina was that the parties could not evade the commitments they had undertaken and that they must implement the agreements from the dialogue.

In the delegation that will visit Pristina and Belgrade tomorrow, in addition to the EU Envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, there will be the US Envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, and the envoys of the French president, German chancellor, and Italian prime minister – Emmanuel Bonne, Jens Ploetner, and Francesco Talo.

Lepaja emphasizes that these are representatives of serious states.

"It is clear why they are coming. These countries have worked on a process in which both states, Serbia and Kosovo, have taken on certain commitments, and they are simply working to concretize and implement these obligations on the ground. They want to see the relations between these two neighbors not just calm down but genuinely normalize, in the sense that they should be like any two neighbors in the European community. The arrival of the Quint sends a message that you cannot evade your obligations if you want to join Europe. The only way is cooperation, agreement, and dialogue, not warfare and medieval ideas," Lepaja points out.

Pristina and Belgrade will be asked to be "normal neighbors" and meet all the conditions set for them if they want to be part of the European community, as Lepaja says.

"Their message is clear: you cannot enter the European community like this. You must be good neighbors, democratically oriented, and assist each other, not just look for ways to harm each other," Lepaja said.

Regarding claims that one of the topics the "big five" will discuss with leaders in Belgrade and Pristina will be the elections in northern Kosovo, Lepaja believes that the citizens of the Serbian community should choose their "true representatives."

"Every election of Serbian representatives in Kosovo must go through the electoral process. This situation in the north, after Banjska, I think will complicate things a bit because we need to see which political parties in Kosovo and which political-military formations do not recognize the state, laws, or electoral process. Parties that have always called for boycotts, crises, and even war cannot be the bearers of a peace process. Citizens of Serbian nationality in Kosovo should choose representatives who will represent their interests, not some geopolitical and expansionist ideas. They must represent these citizens and their interests and work to make their position in Kosovo stronger and better, to ensure they are genuinely equal in all aspects with their Albanian neighbors and others living in Kosovo," Lepaja concluded.