13 minutes agoAmbassador's confession to senior official who couldn't use e-mail
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The ambassador of Great Britain to Kosovo, Ruairi O'Connell, at a conference about the recruiting of high positions in civil service and other high positions in Kosovo institutions, said one of the biggest problems Kosovo has faced in recent years has been the inability of professional people to [...]
On a panel in which Kosovo institutions were attended and international diplomats O'Connell brought an experience he had heard from a colleague in conversation with a senior institutional official.
I heard a case of a colleague at the embassy when she was in a meeting with a senior official who worked 15 years, and asked to send some things to her email, he told her, "Sister knows how the computer works, hin sent them himself. Hasn't it taken, like, 15 years in a position not to use my email?
In 2015, the British Embassy and Kosovo institutions signed a memorandum with which the British were part of the staff selection at top leadership positions in Kosovo civil service.
According to Ambassador O'Connell, hope and optimism, traits that were characterized by Kosovars in the postwar years have already been lost.
I will never forget when I first came to Kosovo in 2001. I was not a diplomat at the time, I came to Kosovo 18 months after the war. There has been no place so much energy somewhere in Europe and somewhere in the world”, he said.
Kosovo has been the most optimistic country in the world for years. In recent years hope and optimism have been lost, and one of the problems is the culture of nepotism. Many times I've heard from citizens and civil servants that it's very difficult to find a job, especially in high positions, unless you're familiar with someone. It is important to have people in high positions especially on the merit of”, he said.
When I arrived as an ambassador, during my first meetings with leaders in 2015, each has told me that one of the problems has been the ability of institutions to confront the challenges he has and the implementation of European Union reforms”, OyConnell added.
He said the memorandum signed is the opportunity for the government and the Parliament to choose in high positions those who have been the best.
For two years we have implemented this project and had results, but I said the result depends on political will. It is not for us to appreciate whether he succeeded or not. It's for civil society, media and citizens to assess”, he said.
Life in Kosovo reported today that a former soldier of Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Fatmir Limaj has been nominated as director of the Agency for Comparison and Verification of Property.
