Haliti: Half of Kosovo receiving pensions, Army is costly

Xhavit Haliti from the Democratic Party of Kosovo, which holds the position of deputy head of the Parliament, shows there is another opinion on the issue of forming the Kosovo Army.

Haliti says the army is costly and Kosovo has no budget, since he says half of Kosovo is receiving pensions.

“The KSF needs to be strengthened, we need to continue to issue laws dealing with strengthening it. Politically I have quite another opinion as to Kosovo's desire to succeed strong armies, the military is very expensive ... we don't have them because we half of Kosovo are giving them pensions ready, the budget is known as it is. I think it would have to be more rational with our decisions. For myself, I love that status that Iceland has as far as its security is concerned, I wish Kosovo would make deals with the US, so that they would be the guarantor of security in Kosovo, and we would have a police and a gendarmerie or KSF as we have, which fight crime and conduct operational issues, which are the easiest”, he says.

Haliti says that Kosovo currently cannot make a competitive army, except the small operational army dealing with the country's defence, but, according to him, is hard to guarantee Kosovo's security without NATO.

When we have NATO here, it is a problem that we have two armies, because NATO cannot enter under the army umbrella, and because it is not part of NATO we cannot enter under the umbrella of NATO as an army. We can co-operate as KSF enough to create space for them to operate in Kosovo. We cannot act like we command NATO, NATO is the largest political and military organisation in the world, guaranteeing the security of the peoples of the world”, he says.

The deputy head of the Assembly also talks about the work being done in the Kosovo Assembly.

He also comments on cases of improper language and verbal encounters at plenary sessions.

Without wanting to stop on each occasion, Haliti says there have been three or four such cases, which, according to him, are in haste in reactions but are able to escape.

The week before, as he was conducting the session, it was Haliti himself who gave a strict “ ” to Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, when he approached him to say repeat the vote.

“You mind your own business. You're in charge of the law I've been following procedures and you can't tell me if you're following your procedures. Haliti told Haradinaj.

I say it every time, and I order it every time, if each prime minister is to keep in mind that the Parliament is the highest state institution, the government is and must be controlled by the Parliament, but is not ordered by the Parliament. The prime minister has the doors open to communicate and contact with all parliamentary groups in the official version, and has the speaker of the assembly open every time he demands the word. That's like the rule, there's no problem, but at the moment the prime minister thinks he should order the mayor, or the mayor, of the session, he's wrong because something like that is not acceptable in any of the world's parliaments, even in those parliaments that we have called monist, at least visually, you can't see anywhere that the prime minister commands the assembly or says something about the way he is leading. I will react every time, as long as I'm in charge of the session, trying to get me involved in the way I run session”, he says.

While for the boycott the opposition is repeatedly doing the work of the Parliament, Haliti says it is not preventing them from continuing with the adoption of laws.

However, he says the opposition should be in the hall, at least in the first part of the session.