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an hour agoThaci for ORF: Kosovars have free movement rights, same as other Europeans
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has awarded an interview to Austria's Radio Public Television (ORF), where he spoke of visiting Austria, meeting with Chancellor Kurz, the European perspective, visa liberalisation and fighting crime and corruption in Kosovo. Austrian public television at the beginning of this interview describes how for many non-member states, [...]
Austrian public television at the beginning of this interview describes how for many non-member states, the European Union still remains an important goal.
The particular target of Kosovo, whose president is staying in Vienna. He hopes to find Austria's support for bringing Kosovo closer to EU”, so begins the ORF interview, continuing further with a description of President Thaci.
The “Already spent over ten years when Hashim Thaci declared Kosovo's independence from Serbia. Some of the expectations remained unfulfilled. Among them is visa liberalisation. Kosovo is the only state in the Balkans, for which even further the visa regime is worth, though formally all criteria have been met. There is still fear in the EU that some Kosovars can misuse freedom of movement”, ORF broadcasts.
Speaking of the visa liberalisation process, President Thaci has said that Kosovo will do its best to clarify to citizens that visa liberalisation does not mean the right to asylum.
The “Kosovars have the right to free movement, just like other Europeans, is a human, human issue. If citizens' isolation continues, then other ideologies, which oppose EU interests”, Thaci has said of the ORF.
In Kosovo, according to President Thaci, there is no movement of foreign immigrants.
He has said that Kosovo controls and protects borders very well, co-operating very closely with neighbouring countries and EU states.
“We are incompatible to human trafficking”, Thaci has said of the ORF.
President Thaci last night has also met in Vienna with Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, whose state takes over the rotating EU presidency.
According to Austria's Public Television, President Thaci has sought from Chancellor Kurz Austria's support for Kosovo's EU approach and for dialogue with Serbia.
Thaci has also talked about the fight against organised crime and corruption, which, according to the ORF, was now Europe's responsibility for ten years.
Kosovo has the most modern Criminal Code in the region, which has been compiled by experts from the European Union and the United States of America. In the fight against corruption, Kosovo has been successful. EU representatives” have confirmed this, Thaci has said.
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci is expected to continue meetings in Vienna during the day, while Austrians will also try the biographic book for Thaci “State, Modern Stateman”
