41 minutes agoAAKA Deputy Chairman: Demarkation not passed
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The Kosovo Assembly in 2018 will face major and challenging themes, such as the Demarkation with Montenegro, the Repower of the Special Court, the Association of Serb majority municipalities and the transformation of the Kosovo Armed Forces into the Army. These challenges have been the subject of the interview with AAK deputy chairman Ahmet [...]
These are the challenges that have been the subject of the interview with AAK Deputy Chairman Ahmet Isufi, on the daily <x0->Image show at RTK 1.
Isufi is optimistic that these topics will be carried out in a fast term in the first quarter of this year.
The fact that these topics have been borne even in 2018 and have spent years on these topics is an indication that it takes enormous commitment to make within the shortest of the first quarter they are carried out so that Kosovo citizens can see a different dynamic of functioning institutions and a higher responsibility of representatives of the” institutions, Isufi noted.
The AAK deputy chairman has said that a political scene unification on these topics is needed, which are very important but also sensitive.
“These are the topics that have dragged on so far and need a direct answer and in a shorter term. It is no longer time to improvise or make narrow political calculations that can stop these processes. On the contrary, the country's national interest now needs to be seen, a willingness to unify the positions of political parties. Seeing the goals of the state, which wants to be an integrated part of the European Union, then must fulfil all obligations before the citizens of Kosovo and before the International Community, for which we have pledged that we can reach”, Isufi added.
However, he does not expect the assembly to vote on the current version of the Demarcation Agreement with Montenegro.
“With the case of demarcation, an injustice has been done to Kosovo, because no state in the Balkans has been asked of such a criterion, and that or with the blame of locals or internationals I don't know, but it is a fact that it has not had to be a criterion because many states that have entered the European Union have not carried out their obligation to demarcation borders.
At the same time, we also have to deal with the neighbouring states with which we are limited and that we have border demarcation, while they have visa liberalisation. Therefore, the EU in this case has had to not set this condition to Kosovo because the border issue is not only up to Kosovo, but also to our neighbours. This should be removed as criteria because it has only complicated the process of Kosovo integration.
Those who have decided can also remove it. Many times in politics and diplomacy change agendas, so it is possible to remove this criterion or otherwise we are interested in becoming as soon as possible demarcation with Montenegro, but by correcting the error made by the prior Commission”, it has underlined the AAK deputy chairman, who is convinced that this agreement will not pass as such, since it does not have the mayoral votes.
