Kosovo, Croatia to learn common language

Minister of Education, Science and Technology Shyqi, Shyqiri Bytyqi, hosted Croatia's ambassador to Kosovo today, Marija Kapitanovic, with whom he talked about the learning of respective languages, Croatian language in Kosovo and Albanian in Croatia, which is also envisioned in the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding.

Bytyqi and Ambassador Kapitanovic agreed to engage in creating opportunities for the engagement of an Albanian-language foreign associate at Zagreb University and a Croatian language collaborator or legalist under the University of Pristina's Philological Faculty.

The minister stressed that, it is extremely important to enable young people in Kosovo and Croatia to learn relevant languages and that in this context it will be discussed more specifically with the management of the University of Pristina for concreteisation of the Memorandum.

While Ambassador Kapitanovic announced that last year the Albanian Language Cathedral has opened at the University of Zara and is working to make it happen at Zagreb University, where a considerable number live.

Albanians, while insisting that Kosovo on its part take on mutual commitments in this direction.

Minister Bytyqi and Ambassador Kapitanovic agreed that mutual learning of mutual languages is in the interest of deepening co-operation even on the economic and cultural plains between the two countries. /