33 minutes agoKosovo diplomacy's major failure: For a year, recognition
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Shortly before Kosovo celebrated its 10th anniversary of citizenship, the only recognition came in this year. It was Barbados who acknowledged Kosovo's independence. In February, Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and his counterpart from Montenegro, Filip Vujanovic, signed a joint declaration marking the border between the two [...]
Shortly before Kosovo celebrated its 10th anniversary of citizenship, the only recognition came in this year. It was Barbados who acknowledged Kosovo's independence.
In February, Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and his counterpart from Montenegro, Filip Vujanovic, signed a joint declaration for marking the border between the two countries. In this statement the two presidents pledge there will be revision of the border demarcation agreement between the two countries at points where there may have been errors.
Ratification of demarcation, arrest of Djuric and expulsion of gilenists
In March, Kosovo's Assembly completed the “game” for ratification of the three-year border demarcation agreement with Montenegro. The first four attempts to ratify the Vienna Agreement failed after Vetevendosje deputies threw tear gas into the Parliament hall. While in the fifth attempt on the day, with 80 votes for the vote, the demarcation with Montenegro was ratified.
This same month Kosovo received bad news, Kosovo's Accreditation Agency was expelled from the European Register for Security of Quality in Higher Education.
Months passed, but resignations in Vetevendosje Movement did not stop and turn came to Pristina chairman Shpend Ahmeti, who through a letter sent to the media confirmed that he is no longer part of the Vetevendosje Movement. This same month, the new parliamentary group from the 12 MPs removed from Vetevendosje also writes the newspaper “Voice”.
On March 26th, Kosovo police arrested the chief of the so-called Office for Kosovo in Serbia's government Marko Djurovic, who had entered Kosovo without official Pristina permission. Following the arrest of Marko Djuric in Mitrovica, the Serbian List from Belgrade announced that it will no longer be part of the government “Haradinaj”. Serbian ministers have since continued to perform the work on government dictatorships, but do not attend government meetings.
At the end of March, school general director “Mehmet Akif” in Kosovo Mustafa Erdem, his deputy, Yusuf Karabina, school director in Gjakova Kahraman Demirez and two educators, Djihen Ozkan and Hasan Gunakana, were arrested and deported to Turkey at the request of Turkish authorities under suspicion that they are part of the organisation of cleric Fetullah Gylen. Kosovo was criticised for their unregulated expulsion of the court, while institutional leaders said they were not informed of the case.
