There is this need, but also the inevitable reality that the fate of Kosovo and everything that happens between Pristina and Belgrade is irresistibly linked to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Sometimes less, sometimes more, and the main hero of those parallels is the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti.
In a fairly high-profile geopolitical crossword puzzle in the Western Balkans, Kosovo is facing a major challenge, namely the formation of the Community of Serbian Municipalities in the north of the country. The West insists that earlier agreements, which include the Community of Serbian Municipalities, be respected, while Kurti is trying to get out of the situation to agree to something that will resemble the entity Republika Srpska (RS) in BiH.
Apart from the name Community of Serbian Municipalities, which Kurti claims can only be a community of municipalities with a Serbian majority, Kurti’s problem is the jurisdiction of that area, which would have a certain autonomy. And although Kosovo was known as the favorite of the West, especially America, today it receives fierce criticism and even sanctions due to the situation in the north of Kosovo, and above all the refusal to form the Community of Serbian Municipalities.
In the last month, the West has had a fairly mild attitude towards official Belgrade, which raises numerous questions about the alleged change in policy. In this context, Kurti’s messages, withwhich he opposes politically to numerous foreign diplomats, began to be observed with greater attention in BiH as well. Why? Simply because the narrative that was created in BiHlargely went in the direction of the West starting to create some new order in the Western Balkans, where Serbia and Albania will have the main say, while satisfying some of Croatia’s wishes, and where the alleged victims are BiH, Kosovo and Montenegro. This story is followed by the topic of the Open Balkans.
Thus, it was possible to hear theses that regardless of loyalty, and decades of lobbying of Kosovo in the West, it did not give special results and that Kosovo is losing in the story of the Community of Serbian municipalities in the north of the country. This is particularly interesting from the point of view of BiH, where there was a long discussion about how BiH lobbied poorly or not at all in the world, that the voice of BiH was not heard in the world, and so on. This was used in the context of Kosovo to somehow justify that even lobbying means nothing, if the greater interest is at stake.
However, it is forgotten that Kurti, for example, when he opposes the West in a political sense, does so very shrewdly. He is present in the largest Western media where he actively explains the position he advocates. However, due to his open attitude, his intransigence to Belgrade, his refusal to agree to the Open Balkans, Kurti is very popular in BiH, that is, in the pro-Bosnian or Bosniak part. So much so that it seems that he could continue to engage in politics in BiH as well, Klix.ba reports.
E.Dz.
