Kosovo should be freed from the obsession with the dialogue with Serbia and consider this process as a normal job, says the president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo (AShAK), Mehmet Kraja. According to him, dialogue should be important for Kosovo, but not become a dominant factor in Kosovo's politics. In an interview for KosovaPress, the head of AShAK also talks about the Association and the Special Court.

Professor Kraja estimates that the dialogue process with Serbia is accompanied by a lack of transparency. According to him, there are things in the agreements signed with Serbia that harm Kosovo's sovereignty.

"In these agreements there are things that harm sovereignty and territorial integrity, such as the agreement on the Association, other agreements one by one that have been signed, it is a document, a summary of documents, a summary of agreements which we read carefully, we see that we were not very serious in this work, it is not known who made them like this, it is not understood why they were made in this form, it is not understood who is having dialogue and who is signing agreements, the parties are not official in neither side", says Kraja.

According to him, a great damage was caused due to the lack of experts involved in this process.

"There has been a lack of transparency, what I consider to be perhaps the greatest damage, because the teams, we requested when these documents were published, the prime minister at the time was also present here, it was requested here in the academy that the government form expert groups for areas of certain, it was promised yes and it turned out no, and again those groups of experts have not been formed even to this day and transparency is still missing as from the beginning", says Kraja.

However, Kraja says that it should be made clear to the international community that Kosovo is a party damaged by the war and that it should never be allowed to equate the victim with the aggressor.

He says that the independence and sovereignty of Kosovo should remain inviolable while adding that the Association of Municipalities with a Serbian majority should be done only according to the decision of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo.

"Of course, we know that neither the Serbian community in Kosovo, nor Serbia, are interested in making an Association without executive powers, and at this point, Kosovo can come out publicly to ask for the Association to be made, but to do it according to the solutions constitutional and the political factor in Kosovo has demanded this in a way. The pressure of the European Union, of the facilitators of the negotiations, Lajçak and Borrell, have ended in a problem which is really defamed, because Kosovo cannot change the constitution due to the Association without Serbia at the same time changing the constitution in which Kosovo it is part of Serbia, it is in the preamble that it is part of Serbia, if Serbia changes its constitution and recognizes its sovereignty and territorial integrity, there is no problem for Kosovo to form any Association", says Kraja.

Kraja says that Serbia is aiming to undermine the legal system and the territorial integrity of Kosovo.

"What I think should happen in this dialogue is that once and for all Kosovo is freed from its obsession, to consider it a normal job if the other parties also consider it as a normal job, not to consider it as a job without which the sun will not rise tomorrow, the sun will rise even without the dialogue with Serbia, even without an agreement with Serbia. Kosovo has declared independence and it must consistently follow this fact, independence and must follow the consolidation of the state, this is very important. I am not saying that it is not important to have an agreement with Serbia, to have an agreement that is acceptable to both parties, but not to the extent that we really cannot raise our heads because we have Serbia present and the dialogue with Serbia we have made it a dominant factor in the politics of Kosovo, it is not and cannot be", says the president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo.

In an interview for KosovaPress, the president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Mehmet Kraja, among other things, says that the Special Court is not fair, but emphasizes that the Kosovo Assembly is the one that formed it and decides whether to undo it.

"I, as president, but also the Academy in general, have expressed their opinions about the Special Court, saying that it is not right, we said that it is not right, that it damages, it establishes the relationship that we said victim and aggressor equates", he says The edge.

Mehmet Kraja was re-elected president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo in December last year.