The talks with Belgrade come at a bad moment for Kosovo, as it is going through a series of institutional crises, stated Krenar Gasi of the Pristina-based Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED) and added that another reason why the talks are ill-timed is the fact that the idea of the dialogue did not come from Kosovo but was rather a plan made by the European Union (EU) and Serbia.

Radio Free Europe reported Gasi as saying that Kosovo is about to enter a process whose level and topics Kosovo officials have no knowledge of, and this is something that neither Kosovo, Serbia nor the EU are ready for.

Gasi also said that Serbia is perhaps the readiest of the three because it knows that in the course of the dialogue, it aims to open the issue of Kosovo's independence and its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The radio notes that at the time when the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is expected to start, the opposition in Kosovo is calling the legitimacy of new institutions into question.