” Giving up the tax would encourage Serbia not to change its attitude towards Kosovo”

The Sheriff has said the current Kosovo government has taken another route in relation to Serbia.

Furthermore, he has said that giving up this path would be the wrong decision, because it would encourage Serbia not to change its attitude towards Kosovo.

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Dignified policy towards Serbia is not popular, but state duty!

Since coming to the helm of Kosovo government in 2008 Hashim Thaci has authoritarianly dictated the direction in which our state has walked so far. He determined ruling policies on both the domestic plains and the foreign policy level. A significant number of decisions he has made over the decade have been in operation of electoral campaigns and not in line with a long-term development strategy. I will not expand to analyze in detail the many decisions of this nature, which have been objects of criticism since then.

I'm focusing on the level of imposing a foreign policy that has always been of great consequence to the country. Especially imposing the so-called “technical dialogue on normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia” has been fatal, because its results are a DEBAKEL in full sense of the word! If we make a brief review of the historical context, then we should re-inflammatory that Hashim Thaci took over the country's rule at the moment when talks on Kosovo's political status had ended, and Martti Ahtisaari, who on behalf of the United Nations, led negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo, in the report he handed over to the Security Council, clearly stressed that the only sustainable “opposion for Kosovo is her independence” Under these circumstances, the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo adopted the declaration of independence, which Hashim Thaci read before MPs in the quality of Kosovo's prime minister.

Following the proclamation of the country's independence and international recognitions by the most powerful democratic states in the world, the reality of Kosovo's citizenship was turned into an irreparable fact. The legitimacy of Kosovo's decision to declare independence also strengthened the International Court of Justice's decision. It is natural that everyone has expected Kosovo's citizenship to be strengthened after the JND decision. Unfortunately, talks on normalising relations with Serbia normalised and strengthened Serbia's position in the international arena and the aggressor who committed the most monstrous crimes in post-World War II influenced the process of establishing the Special Court to condemn U n CK on the basis of the files made up of it.

The wrong direction Hashim Thaci had implemented in foreign policy, especially in relation to Serbia, brought Kosovo into such a state that after a decade of declaring independence and international recognitions, it would turn the process back by turning the “dialog started on technical issues” into “for territorial integrity and country sovereignty”. The fact that some states have drawn recognition of Kosovo's independence within this context should also be seen, and this poses a serious risk to affirming our state on the international political scene.

Kosovo's current government, with Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, has taken another route in relation to Serbia. It has made several decisions in order to respond favorably to Serbia's attacks on the state of Kosovo. The most important decision is that of the 100% tax. Hashim Thaci was willing to give others the post of prime minister, but on condition of continuing his policies. He is not willing to accept that the country, in relation to Serbia, apply policies contrary to its own, because they would prove that it during all years of government in the country had had wrong policies in relation to Serbia. Therefore, it requires the removal of the tax and will do everything in its power, even until efforts to overthrow the government only to force the government to give up current policies towards Serbia.

Resigning from the path the Kosovo government has taken would be the wrong decision, because it would encourage Serbia not to change its stance on Kosovo. At the same time, it would confirm Thaci's misleading policy against Serbia as right. If the tax is lifted without the reasons for putting it off, everything will be back on track again. Such a decision would send a bad message because it would be evidence that Kosovo accepts publicly that it is unable to do anything to protect itself from the aggressive attacks Serbia carries out through its structures in Kosovo and through diplomatic fight against our state!

Releasing this government's new path in a way would negatively affect even the so - called final phase of dialogue! It would strengthen the conviction that only by submitting to Serbia's demands could the highly trumpeted agreement be reached. For a decade we tried the old streets, and all of them were all saying it didn't lead us to the expected target. Now we must continue to walk on this new road, started by this government. Only in this way will we testify that the government, as the country's executive institution, is carrying out its obligations in drafting and implementing policies that are in the interest of its citizens.