8 hours agoHoxhaj: Sovereignty Complete Done With Kosovo's UN Membership
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Enver Hoxhaj is staying in New York, where he has participated in the panel organised by the American Institute “Independent Diplomat” and the Kosovo Consulate in New York, in honour of the 10th anniversary of Kosovo's independence, attended by American congressional Elliot Engel and many world diplomats. In the word [...]
In his address to those attending, Deputy Prime Minister Hoxhaj said that in the past 10 years Kosovo has witnessed success in building the state from the foundation. He spoke of Kosovo's achievements and challenges in the 10 years of citizenship.
The first “Decade of citizenship has resulted in a democratic, multiethnic and secular society. In the internal plan, state political institutions have been built, the basis for economic development and preservation of macro-economic stability, numerous reforms have been made in other areas of life, ranging from education, health, justice to environment”, Hoxhaj has said.
Hoxhaj also spoke of the second dimension of Kosovo's statehood, stressing the importance of Kosovo's membership in the United Nations Organisation.
The second dimension of state-building is Kosovo's integration into the community and international institutions, so recognition and membership in international organisations. Today there are 115 states that have recognised Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state, and there are 67 international organisations where Kosovo is a member. Kosovo has contractual relations with the European Union through the signing of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement, and its implementation, as an important process for Kosovo's EU integration”, Hoxhaj continued in his address, adding that these achievements of how many people of Kosovo also belong to our country's international partners.
Hoxhaj has listed two challenges that bring Kosovo to the international level, 10 years after independence.
“celebrating the 10th anniversary of independence and revealing a balance of what is and what remains to be done, Kosovo needs strategic clarity for its future. Kosovo must address two challenges: The first is completing sovereignty through UN membership, a process that is difficult but unstoppable; and second: the country must move from the closure of state-building to the construction phase of a developed society and economy, which will enable Kosovo's membership in the EU and to NATO”, it concluded. /Periscopi/
