Interior Minister: We have implemented 80% of the planned SAA measures

Interior Affairs Minister Flamur Sefaj said they have largely met measures for the national plan to implement the SAA, which they planned for 2017.

Sefaj, said that for 2017, The MPB has planned a total of 98 measures, of which 14 legislative measures and 84 are implementing measures. It has planned a total of 98 measures under the national plan for implementation of the SAA. According to him of 98 measures, 77 measures have been realised, while 21 measures are under way.

According to Sefajt, of these measures, two of them are planned in chapter 14 which is transportation policy, 7 measures are planned in chapter 23 judiciary and fundamental rights, 88 measures are planned in chapter 24 that is justice, freedom and security, and 1 measure is planned in chapter 27.

“Over the period 1 January to 15 December 2017 by 14 legislative measures planned by the MPB, 5 measures have been completed and another 9 measures, 7 of which are administrative measures cannot be approved without the approval of the asylum and foreign law decision. They're in progress, but late. While, out of the planned 84 implementation measures 72 measures have been completed, 12 measures are under way. Of the 84 implementing measures planned under the SAA implementation, 45 are the measures that continue to address, so we consider them fulfilled. Generally of 98 measures the MPB is responsible for so far, 77 or 80 per cent have been realised, while 21 or 20 per cent are under way”, Sefaj said.

During the report, Minister Sefaj asked MPs to assist him in adopting the Police Members Pension Bill, which envisions about 2 thousand members retirement within three years. Sefaj said this bill was submitted but blocked. The IMF, according to them, has huge financial costs.

Kosovo Police have 2,000 members who have actually advanced in age. We're working and we've been proceeding the police retirement bill, and I'm going to ask for your help, too, to lobby for this bill to pass. Because it would allow us to solve all these problems. Now, 2 thousand members are now required for three years to retire and undertake new units with age criteria that have not been there before. This is causing us problems and giving you a statistic, some 600 members of the police are trapped in preserving various government facilities”, Sefaj noted.

Minister Sefaj has also reported on implementation of agreements reached in Brussels between Kosovo and Serbia belonging to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

For this point, there was another clash with Vetevendosje MP Jedal Svechla and Minister Flamur Sefaj.

You as a paid official to protect Kosovo's interests must do everything possible that these interests protect, not flee from the problem. My language is not conflicting at all, I'm not saying that we should damage Serbia for a hundred years. I'm saying so let's not let Serbia harm us as it has in the past, when we're saying we have independent states and institutions. Now we can say that we're closing our eyes and pretending we have a state in the 90s, but actually the state that this is not”, Svechla said.

This statement angered Minister Sefaj, who called the Kosovo state's drawup to the 1990s.

The “radition with the '90s is not shot at at all, we are independent states. You're bringing us back. We have cars without license plates, what do you want to say we don't have or what, and Serbia said that Kosovo's not a problem for a while, but it's a problem for them. I'm sorry you can't compare the Republic of Kosovo to the 1990s, it's a sin that you're saying... ”, Sefaj stressed.

MP Rexhep Selimi raised the issue of using three kinds of plates in Kosovo.

The “in Kosovo circulates at least three types of license plates, there are two types of Kosovo plates that are official, and a set of plates that are illegal, besides those of Serbia that enter Kosovo are those illegally. I've had the chance to visit northern municipalities, move through all parts, and I've noticed there's no such thing as the RKS license, Selimi said.

But, Minister Sefaj said they are operating against these problems and preventing the circulation of illegal plates.

The issue of indictments exercised by Kosovo Police for criminal acts in northern municipalities was also raised, until the number of establishments is much smaller that constitutes a large disproportion.

Rashit Qalaj of Kosovo Police said there is disproportion among the indictments filed by police and the charges filed by the prosecution, but according to him, the prosecutor decides to establish the indictment or not.