Abraham: If the Serbian majority municipality association gets executive competency, someone has to answer to it

Ibrahimi said that institutions which have represented Kosovo in Brussels have not been well prepared in terms of association, never taking an opinion from this institution on how to function or other issues.

“I believe in Kosovo institutions, but so far Kosovo representatives who have been in Brussels have been prepared in terms of mechanization called Association. I guess they didn't even have the basic knowledge of how to work this mechanism, and they never consulted us to get our opinion”, Ibrahim said of Online Economics.

According to him, association should not be granted any competence, otherwise it would exceed the role for which it is created.

He estimates that on the basis of those who are being spoken on the opinion, there will be trends in creating another middle-level governing.

“I hope this mechanism has no competence, no competence. If this mechanism has only one competence then it will overcome the role for which associations are created, because these are created only to protect the interests of local authorities and represent them and not to protect the ethnic interests of any local municipality or authority”.

“I believe in Kosovo institutions that this mechanism does not have executive competence, because if there is going to be then I deeply believe that the Republic of Kosovo and the governing system in Kosovo will not be what it is now, there will be a tendency to create another governing level of intermed”, he said.

Regarding the report on drafting the statute, which the managing team has sent to Government, he said it should not be sent to Brussels, even warning bigger consequences.

“Want to be our government mechanisms representing Kosovo's interests in Brussels more active so that these are ignored during debates during negotiations in Brussels. If such a thing happens that their Draft-state will bypass the legal structures chosen by the people of Kosovo and that this Draft-statut, which has not been discussed in the Kosovo parliament and that if our legal decision-making institutions are bypassed and such a statute is provided in Brussels then I believe the consequences could be greater than they have been until now”.

For all of this, Ibrahimi says someone has to be responsible, because this mechanism was originally named no more than a non-governmental organisation.

If this association has executive competence and since 2013 it has been promised to the people of Kosovo that this mechanism will have the legal status of an NGO and that the nature of its work will be the same as our working nature. If that doesn't happen, I hope someone should take political moral responsibility, because if there's a government between that local and central Kosovo, and if that's monoethnic, then I think someone must take responsibility”, Ibrahim said.