Meeting behind closed doors: The first confrontation between Vučić and Kurti?

During the meeting behind closed doors between the leaders of the countries of the Western Balkans, the organizer of the Security Conference, Wolfgang Ischinger, and the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security, Josep Borrell, the first clashes occurred between the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Aljbin Kurti, Koha ditore reported today.

Referring to Deutsche Welle (DW), the Pristina daily reported that last night's meeting in Munich was held behind closed doors according to the "Chatam House" principle, which means that the participants of the meeting have no right to publish details, but the speech of the Prime Minister of Kosovo was published on social networks. who spoke out against the idea of ​​a mini-Schengen and assessed that the countries of the Western Balkans needed a "mini-Marshall Plan".

During the meeting, Kurti also presented the principles for talks with Serbia, the first of which implies that there is no agreement without dialogue, the second that there is no dialogue with maps, and the third that there is no president around maps, which was a direct criticism of the presidents of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci and Vučić, as well as the prime minister of Albania. Edija Rama, who, according to the media, was involved in the issue of possible border correction between Kosovo and Serbia.

DW's sources stated that Vučić was the most upset after Kurti's statement that "the world helped Kosovo to free itself from Serbia and that now it should help Serbia to free itself from Kosovo".

Reacting to that statement, Vučić said that according to UN Security Council Resolution 1244, Kosovo is part of Serbia and that Kosovo's independence has not been recognized by more than half of the world's population.

During the meeting behind closed doors, Kurti assessed that it is necessary to ensure that all the countries of the Western Balkans become EU members together and at the same time, because otherwise, in his words, some of the countries "could create problems".

Representatives of the countries that initiated the mini-Schengen defended the idea, stating that it ensures the freedom of movement of goods, but also that it has its starting point in the Berlin process.

It is known that one of them rejected the allegations that he defends the idea of ​​creating a third Yugoslavia, stating that "enough" of those stories.

One of the topics of the discussion was the opening of a clear perspective of the accession of the countries of the Western Balkans to the EU.

The participants of the meeting expressed different views on the procedures that should be used until membership and the method of membership, but they agreed that the EU perspective of the countries of the Western Balkans should remain open.