Edi Rama and Albin Kurti have confirmed their presence as speakers on the panels of the two-day forum of Slovenia that takes place in the tourist town near Lake Bled at the end of this month.
Their relationship in recent months has been icy and tense.
This forum will be an opportunity for a recently missing meeting between Prime Minister Rama and his counterpart Albin Kurti.
On July 6, when Rama landed in Pristina as part of his Balkan tour devoted to preparations for the October meeting in Tirana within the framework of the Berlin Process, he was received only by President Osmani and Speaker Konjufca.
At the time, Kurti made the meeting with Prime Minister Edi Rama conditional on the joint meeting of the two governments.
Kurti considered as unreasonable the decision of the Albanian Prime Minister to cancel the meeting of the two governments that was scheduled to be held on June 14 in Gjakovë.
He said that he would welcome Rama to hold the intergovernmental meeting where they would sign the 13 joint agreements that had been agreed upon before.
On July 17, Kurti rejected the meeting with Rama for the second time as the prime minister gathered the leaders of the Western Balkans in Tirana for an informal meeting. Kurt preferred that day to appear at a symposium of a non-governmental association on the island of Crete.
The jokes of the Kosovar Prime Minister are related to the fact that Prime Minister Rama addressed public criticism to the government in Pristina for not properly managing the situation with the Serbs in the north after the early elections in the four Serbian municipalities that brought about the interruption of the dialogue with Belgrade and then sanctions from the EU and the USA .
Kurti was also surprised by the draft for the establishment of the community of Serbian municipalities that Rama sent to Berlin and Paris without consulting him beforehand. Kurti has also ironized the regional initiative of the Open Balkans in which Rama has reached a cooperation agreement with Vucic and Kovacevski for joint mainly economic projects.
Kurti has recently held several meetings at the headquarters of the Kosovar government in an open environment that he has publicly named as the 'Open Balcony' in an open meeting with the regional initiative initiated by Prime Minister Rama.
Serbian President Vucic, Macedonian Prime Minister Kovacevski and European Council President Charles Michel will take part in the Bled strategic forum alongside Prime Ministers Rama and Kurti. In addition to regional cooperation, security issues and EU membership will also be discussed there.