Thaci for the delay in visa liberalisation: Our own faults

The country's president, Hashim Thaci, has said that if Kosovo did its jobs in time, visa liberalisation for our citizens would already be a completely forgotten issue.

And actually, we were delayed with the demarcation issue and I can say we had a statement, in particular from the summer of 2014, when the political stalemate happened. We've always had tradition, after the elections we find the formula and move forward and not block each other”, Thaci said.

This is a matter, I can say done. But it's inexcusable not to sign up for three years. Even today, visas are a matter of defaulting. It's not a matter of decisions immediately, it's going to happen very soon. At the meeting I held with Commissioner Hahn, but even with Mrs. Moghrin, it has been confirmed that we will now have a presentation of the report on April 17th, and then visa liberalisation will occur in the fall, he said.

The president has said the fight against corruption, organised crime remains a permanent struggle, and Kosovo has implemented the criteria for visa liberalisation overall.

The whole world when the demarcation was performed and applauded and stressed now the roads are open, the streets are safe. The case was the demarcation that we closed ourselves, we isolated ourselves. We've spent three years on the market, unfortunately, for no reason, a completely false and non-existence case, because the deal has been good. It's the same deal that was in 2015, it's also now”, Thaci said on the Life Show in Kosovo.

The fight against corruption, against organised crime, according to Thaci, is a permanent struggle and has been completed as a criterion.