Muhaxhiri: Abandoning the dialogue process would be an apocalyptic strike to Kosovo

The option of abandoning the dialogue process, recently articulated by the President of the Kosovo Assembly, Glauk Konjufca, for sociologist and political analyst Artan Muhaxhiri, is nothing more than an apocalyptic strike, which would nullify all the progress that Kosovo has achieved, the Albanian Post reports.

Muhaxhiri believes that not only do Konjufca's words not align with real politics, but they are also impossible to implement.

He explains that abandoning the dialogue process would isolate Kosovo internationally, causing it to disappear from the investment radar of the regular world, turning it into "hopeless waste."

"The dialogue is so important that no Kosovo or Serbian political structure is powerful enough to block it. We would have changes in governments rather than the destruction of the dialogue. The dialogue has contributed a lot and for a long time, making it an unparalleled methodology for achieving a final historic solution between Kosovo and Serbia," Muhaxhiri says.

He adds that the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia is a process of exceptional geostrategic and geopolitical importance, and its progress, including the alignment and balancing of the main actors, is calculated in a way that has a realistic basis and does not disproportionately deviate towards any party.

"It is clear that constructiveness and willingness to compromise have benefited the parties, while destructiveness has led to stagnation. This is the recipe. It is not credible that the international community, at this stage, will establish such radically deviating criteria that would destroy previous investments and future planning in the dialogue," he added.

Dritero Arifi, a professor of political science, also states that it is in no way beneficial for Kosovo to abandon the dialogue at any stage.

According to Arifi, Konjufca's statements are not serious and do not belong to the high level of politics, as there are other ways and channels to express dissatisfaction.

"This shows the complete unseriousness of the political elite leading the state. Kosovo is not an established state in the field of international relations, and its strengthening or integration depends solely on the countries of the European Union. Any such statement is unserious, but its consequences can be serious," Arifi said.

Arifi further explains that the logic of the international community does not function in terms of "leaning toward one side" or "damaging the other side."

"If, hypothetically, Kosovo abandons the dialogue, then we can say that the construction of the state of Kosovo will not remain in the status quo but may regress. So, this can raise many questions about the future of Kosovo," Arifi concluded.