Government Has EU Request Regarding UNMIK

Hasan in an interview for Online Economy has said it would be good for UNMIK itself to have withdrawn from representation in this mechanism, but since no such thing has happened, the government will use all ways to be represented as a state.

“We have also asked through the EU office to pressure UNMIK, we have asked all relevant international factors to withdraw from UNMIK's preamble because it is the only international institution to be represented as UNMIK”.

“We believe that this issue to be addressed, is a way to possibly attract even W NMIC from this representation to give Kosovo access as a state, but we can otherwise also ask all members who are part of CEFTA to recognise Kosovo to be represented as a state”.

The Minister of Trade and Industry has announced that 23 this month there will be a meeting in Belgrade, attended by CEFTA members and discussed on the topic, EO reports.

This month's “23rd we have a meeting that will be CEFTA members in Belgrade and we believe that these issues should be raised or directly searched for”.

On Saturday, on a visit Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj made to this ministry, he said that he has not yet made a decision or will Kosovo continue to be part of the CEFTA agreement.

The “is more than that, more than just the subject of the ministry and the audience of the businessmans, it's a national topic in the external plan of how we approach international mechanisms, we don't have a final attitude yet, and we're going to discuss a little bit of our approach to CEFTA and our approach there, it's inherited from UNMIK time and now we have to move to a new stage but we're not rushing to say how we're going to act”

Kosovo became a powerful member of CEFTA in July 2007. The membership agreement was signed by UNMIK on behalf of Kosovo. Furthermore, Kosovo is represented in CEFTA through UNMIK.

In 2008, Kosovo institutions also changed customs stamps from UNMIK Customs to Kosovo Customs. Switching seals served as a cause for Serbia and Bosnia to block the export of Kosovo goods to these two states. As of December 4th 2008, Kosovo companies cannot export to these two countries.

In order to facilitate procedures to join the European Union (BE), Central European countries Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in 1992, formed the Free Trade Agreement in Central Europe (CEFTA).

The CEFTA agreement was based on the concept of the market economy, as member states thought further economic development could be achieved only by promoting market economy and sound competition.