Haxhiu and Tahiri are put off after British Ambassador O'Connell's statement

Hadziu and Tahiri are literally pushed after O'Connell's statement: How much you think internationals will support you

The international community will not accept Kosovo's failures in the fight against corruption and organised crime, as this is the last moment for the country to score results in fighting serious crimes in order not to lose international support.

So said U.K. Ambassador to Kosovo Ruairi O'Connell to the table on the subject “Corruption impunity, danger for society and state”/ “Choice: Integrity, transparency, accountability?

O'Connell said the international community has invested a lot in Kosovo, and for that it cannot accept failure. While presenting questions to prosecutors and judges about the problem of not punishing serious crime in the country.

He stressed that responsibility falls to prosecutors and judges, while adding that excuses are not acceptable that there is a lack of courage or for reaching the system.

Kosovo should not be the shelter of crime and corruption. Now do I have another question? What do they think, until Kosovo can continue to have the support of the international community when it continues to testify to the lack of fighting corruption and organised crime? It is time for integrity officials opposed to walk from their positions and pursue their crimes. Such changes need police, judiciary and prosecution. They must stem from integrity officials themselves who are in the governing position. Politics should keep its hands off these institutions. I'm not taking it any longer because there's no time. There is no time even for Kosovo and the justice system. Kosovo prosecutors and judges must be Kosovo's new heroes”, he said.

Ehat Miftaraj from the Kosovo Institute for Justice, said IKD's findings in these years is that corruption in Kosovo is persistent.

Even in 2019, transparency is lacking, the accountability of key carriers managing and leading with the justice system in Kosovo and fighting corruption. Unfortunately, this approach is jeopardising the rule of law and the European integration of Kosovo. Kosovo, in reports of specific EU mechanisms, has already begun to be called a seized state. In the last three years, we still don't have any senior public officials who have been sentenced to effective prison terms for criminal corruption, or who is serving sentence in Kosovo prisons”, he said.

MP Albulen Haxhiu said corruption exists in every country, but stressed that corruption is investigated and fought in developed countries.

She also expressed pro-sensing, but stressed that Kosovo must do so on its own, not embassy representatives. This, according to her, is the last time Kosovo took responsibility in its own hands.

My “for me is today disturbing parole sentences for corruption cases. They encourage high officials to misuse their position - to continue. And, with the right to say, millionaires in the Republic of Kosovo today are made before the eyes of justice, with no problem because the justice system has not followed them. Enter the Anti-Corruption Agency website today, only for assets declared by senior officials, it is absurd to believe that are legitimate incomes. So, we have not even had the minimum political will to fight organised crime and corruption”, she said.

Justice Minister Abelard Tahiri said he does not think the political will in the country is challenging. While adding that an analysis should be done for the property, according to him Kosovo can't always go with the establishment of institutions. He said they have achieved a deep reform in the fight against corruption and organised crime.

I don't think that political will is missing, that you have seen it as the will of politics to address the issue of legislation, an issue that has been raised in two reports to the country by the EU. Even in this case we have achieved a profound reform of fundamental, extremely important documents, which are directly linked to the fight against organised crime and corruption”, said the minister Tahiri.

Skender Cocaj, chairman of the Kosovo Judiciary Council, said accountability and transparency will be the priorities of the judiciary in the country. According to him, within this year a department for the reduction and protection of Kosovo's most dominant judges will be established, where high profile corruption will be tried.

While Kosovo Prosecutorial Council Chairman Bahri Hyseni said that even today they are not satisfied with the results in the fight against corruption as a whole and organised crime. He said corruption is the problem of the large number of people charged, in addition to minor final decisions.

While Kosovo Police General Director Rashit Qalaj said it is necessary for the police's leading structures to support investigators.

He said Kosovo Police, namely the Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes, are performing a wonderful job.

Otherwise, the report “Corruption impunity, danger to society and state”/ “Resolution: Integrity, transparency, accountability?” speaks of how prosecutors for three years have resolved cases against 2 thousand of 838 people suspected of corruption, with between a thousand and 809 persons or 64 percent of them, corruption cases closed to the prosecutor, without going through judicial control.