Albania cut Kosovo message: Liberalisation Ask for Europe, Not Albanian passports

Albania continues to encourage Kosovo to meet the last criteria set by the European Commission for visa liberalisation and not to expect the issue to be resolved through issuing Albanian passports to Kosovo citizens.
One such message, Tirana this time has brought to Pristina through Parliament Speaker Gramoz Ruci, who is staying in Pristina with whom he has held meetings with the highest leaders of Kosovo institutions.
Asked whether Albania's Assembly could issue laws facilitating the acquisition of Albanian citizenship and passport by Kosovo citizens, as Kosovo President Hashim Thaci had long before proposed, Chief Prosecutor Ruci said it is better for Kosovo to focus on the specific criteria, including ratification of border demarcation with Montenegro.
I have followed what President Thaci demanded from President Ilir Meta. I have an answer and it is that, we are and support a European Union solution to the visa issue for Kosovo citizens”, Ruci said.
“The EU should not leave Kosovo as an isolated island in the Balkans. Therefore, I encourage all political forces to resolve the issue of demarcation, if that is the obstacle, even though I think Kosovo has met European requirements”, he stressed.
Ruci also said there is no need for the visa issue to be resolved “through Albanian-Albanian reforms”, but in Kosovo's relations with the European Union.
However, at meetings held with Ruci, it was said that Kosovo and Albania have common orientation on the road to European integration.
Albania's chief governor was accompanied by leaders of the ruling and opposition parliamentary groups. After separate meetings with Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and Parliament Speaker Kadri Wessel told them that the two countries are preparing to celebrate together November 28th, Albanian Flag Day.
Albania's Parliament Speaker Gramoz Ruci has praised Kosovo's political spectrum for the maturity shown in the October 22nd election process.
Ruci has voiced confidence that at the meeting between the two governments due in late November in Korca, Albania, many pending issues are expected to be resolved between the two states.
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has shared him with the “Order of Freedom”, which according to Thaci, shows gratitude for the commitments of Chief Prosecutor Ruci and the Albanian state in support of Kosovo's freedom and independence.
Thaci said he thanked the entire political spectrum in Albania “for the support he has given to Kosovo as at the time of war, democratic transition and the time of Kosovo's declaration of independence”.
Thaci has expressed more than convinced that Albania has Kosovo as top priority at any level of its diplomatic representation around the world.
The contribution to Kosovo's freedom does not belong to any individual and does not belong to me, and this shared medal belongs to the entire Albanian political spectrum”, Ruci said.
Meanwhile, after meeting with Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, he said that beyond words, the two states should commit to co-operation taking place in the work.
And Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veselini said the Kosovo Assembly and Albania's Parliament will form a joint parliamentary commission within a year.
Wessel said he has discussed with Ruci the possibilities of advancing relations between the two parliaments and countries in general, in the function of facilitating bilateral circulation, trade and educational exchanges and parliamentary experiences.
With Albania nothing is separating us, it brings us together. Its voice is and will remain the lawyer and the argumentative voice of our political causes in the region and in the international realm”, Veselin stressed.
The head of the Kosovo Assembly said that Kosovo's state definition is integration into the EU and in the Atlantic Alliance, processes in which, the chairman said, Albania's experience is necessary.
It laid out the need for more advanced co-operation in removing bureaucratic barriers, increasing trade exchanges, increasing joint investments, resolving education issues and other practical topics of common interest.
Albania has also formally invited Kosovo's political leaders to co-organised the Flag Day notice on November 28th.