Within just 15 days, Pristina was visited by four of Albania’s highest-ranking officials—the prime minister, the president, the foreign minister, and the speaker of parliament. Despite the positive and energetic messages exchanged during these visits, according to analysts interviewed by Kosovo Online, relations between Kosovo and Albania have not reached the level that citizens of both sides would like and remain largely good only on the surface. They believe that the personal relationship between Prime Ministers Edi Rama and Albin Kurti remains strained, and that their rapprochement will not be helped by the fact that Pristina and Tirana are in the same trench when the issue of the trials of former KLA leaders in The Hague is raised.