Rama: EU condition for abolishing Kosovo visas unfair

Prime Minister Edi Rama criticised the European Union for conditioning visa liberalisation for Kosovo with demarcation with Montenegro.

At the same time, he said the EU is negotiating with Serbia, which, he says, does not even recognise Kosovo's independence.

Rama in an interview for Vienna Standard has said this is not fair, the EU is negotiating Montenegro and Serbia's EU membership, but not with Albania, which, according to him, has gone further in implementing judicial reforms, which the official Podgorica has not done.

“Kosovars now have their own state, but are not able to move the links. They are the only people in all of Europe who cannot leave their country, and all of this because of some meaningless criteria. The EU must first have an agreement on demarcation with Montenegro, while negotiating with Serbia, a country that is not recognised even Kosovo, leaving the borders of Kosovo”, Rama has said.

The Albanian prime minister says that, no matter what anyone says, he will always be concerned about Albanians living in other countries, because, as he explains, he owes this to the Albanian constitution.

Albania's constitution, according to him, envisions that the Albanian state cares for all Albanians, who live in other countries abroad and underlines that it will always do, no matter what others have said, and criticised the EU enlargement policy. /Indesksonline/