Citaku kept his privacy a secret: I was laughing, I cried 11 years ago.

Kosovo's Ambassador to the United States, Vlora Citaku, has commemorated the day of Kosovo's February 17th 2008 declaration of independence. She wrote in a Facebook post that everyone remembers that day, on which he made a big cold but that was still the hottest day of a [...]
She wrote in a Facebook post that everyone remembers that day, on which there was a big cold, but it was still the hottest day of an entire century.
Below was Chitak's post:
11 years Saturday
It was cold those short days and I had a secret.
I remember that cold February day. Each of us remembers. It was intense, but the tension felt in the atmosphere a few days ago. I was even more tense because I knew a secret I couldn't share with anyone. Not even with close relatives. I was leading a part of the process associated with the Declaration of Independence but no one should know what these processes were.
World media press conferences had to be prepared, but nobody should have known what the conference is getting cold. Security arrangements had to be made, but the cops didn't even know what they were going to provide for you when they were going to provide.
I had a big secret in my heart, and sometimes I laughed at myself and with the news that was burning my heart. Obeliski NeweBorn was prepared but it didn't take a day when we would be born “
We had many reasons to rejoice and many reasons to prepare for the worst. Serbia was ruled by a nationalist with a dirty agenda. Violence, power failure warned. The verbal aggression had reached the top. However, it was known that we would no longer postpone the process, since every road of Vienna negotiations and visits of Ischinger, Wisner and Borcan Harcenko was spent. The endless debates at the UN were exhausted. The enemies of independence were no longer in control. Ahtisaari had proposed a perfect compromise. There will be independence! The president of Ur Ahtisaari said, but will be monitored until we testify that minorities and the whole society will have better life and more power because of the state creation, not less.
As an MP I knew I would be among the representatives of the people who will declare independence. We will complete the nation's citizenship. Even the Declaration of Independence had to be written in secret, with a beauty showing that at the end of the sentences is rushing, because all of Kosovo's people were in a hurry. They no longer endured the only minute of what has been followed round a century. From the division of the Ottoman Empire, from the time of Isa Boletin, from the time of my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great, from the time of Shaban Pollouse but also the partisans who fought Nazism but were deceived by the Communist Party. From the time of the founding of the University of Pristina, dissidentism, imprisonment and false expectations. By the time of my years, as a member of the Republic <x0).8x1> that remained without schools, poisoned and ignored by Europe. We could not last a minute, since our resistance with weapons, soldiers who accompanied them opened up as a translator of the world's largest newspapers faced genocide against civilians by centuries of occupiers.
It was cold that day of February, colder than ever. But I had the secret in my heart and it was burning my soul.
To tell you the truth how I laughed, I cried that day, because of the life we lived, the sacrifice of my mother and father, the sacrifice of my friends and friends. The sacrifice of the tender and the oldest.
These are the feelings I remember today, 11 years later. Global warming and climate change are making us the warmest and unsurpassed shorts, but it's like feeling like remembering how we became a state and how expensive we paid our right to the state. A century of pain. But you know how they say in movies no pain no gain. And we won a lot, more than many, many peoples overslept and overstepped. We won not only the Declaration of Independence, but the Declaration recognized the world's greatest democracies. He recognized him in an elementary school with a new map, Sarcozy of France's Revolution that brought human rights as fundamental concept. We were recognized by the Italy of the Humanist Renassa for putting man in the center of the universe. We were recognized by Germany, the global example of being reborn after regret over World War II. The United Kingdom recognized us.
And he recognized us. What we always will forgive. Every February 17th. A few years ago, an American diplomat confessed to me that it was not just Hashim Thaci who had to be persuaded to postpone the declaration of independence for a few months by the end of 2007 in 2008. His resistance was great, but likely it was the same as President Bush, who told his diplomats that “I promised a people independence, and independence would be committed to”.
11 years later, much could be better. The expectations of people that we would become Switzerland, the hopes that everything would improve, that we would have work and money, were broken with the problems of transition, the same ones that broke many across Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. Unfortunately and not rarely criminally, not all had equal development opportunities in our country. The solidarity, the great love, the laughter we all had toward each other, did not last forever.
Yet, hatred should not be replaced by love. Independence is final, and will never return to question. I'm sorry when some still doubt it. They still deny it. When they desecrate our flag. But for them today I won't write.
It was cold on February 17, 2008. But it was also the hottest day of an entire century.











