Kosovo’s President, Vjosa Osmani, stated that the regional initiative known as Open Balkan wouldn’t respect the principle of inclusion and that it wouldn’t treat all participating countries as equals.
In an interview for MINA, Osmani said that this initiative has been thoroughly analyzed by Kosovo both on the political aspect and the professional one.
“We came to the decision, which has gone through a lot of analysis, that this is not an initiative that would treat Kosovo as an equal partner. On the contrary”, said Osmani.
According to Osmani, with the Open Balkan initiative, Serbian President Alexandar Vucic is trying to extend his hegemonic approach to the entire region and treat Kosovo as an unequal partner, by not recognizing its independence.
In addition, she underlined that if the Western Balkan countries don’t join the EU, there can’t be a free, united and peaceful Europe.
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