Even this year, there is no hope that Kosovo will membership in INTERPOL

Security acquaintances and political issues in the country are not seeing much hope that Kosovo will achieve this year membership in the largest international police organisation, since they say it has not worked enough in this direction.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Behgjet Pacolli said days ago that Kosovo police were named at the first level of professionalism and credibility, as a modern police organisation with advanced standards.

Pacolli announced that the INTERPOL Executive Committee in France has debated the app of the Republic of Kosovo, and has decided in favour of sending the Kosovo Police File for voting at the INTERPOL General Assembly.

The composition of the Executive Committee for 2019 out of a total of 10 participating states in today's debate were only three states that have recognised our country's independence, and almost all participants argued in favour of the Kosovo Police application to proceed further to the General Assembly. Therefore, we hope that Serbia too will call the voice of reason and not act with its instructions against peace and security. It would be primitive and outside of any logic, obstruction and lobby against the membership of the Kosovo Police in the international Interpol organisation, and on the other hand speaking of peace and security”, Pacolli wrote.

Parliamentary Commission for Foreign Affairs Chairman Vjosa Osmani hopes that Kosovo's state effort -- once again -- for membership in INTERPOL -- has not been another uncoordinated step.

According to her, redeployment in the foreign policy field could result in a total dyssaster for Kosovo's image in the world, and the process in statehood.

“It is not known where Kosovo stands by vote, it takes a very dimensional job that does not mean the work of the Foreign Ministry, but it must be learned from past mistakes, and the Foreign Ministry and the Interior Ministry must see where they have failed in the previous application that failed to make the votes necessary for membership. A subsequent failure for Kosovo would be very harmful, so the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as overseer of this process and other institutions that include them in the task of lobling for INTERPOL should be much more active, to raise the level of co-operation with the friendly states which, through the bulls that can be sent to the INTERPOL member states, can help a lot”, she says.

And according to Nuredin Ibishi, security connoisseur, only the right lobe can produce results.

He says that if a strategy is made, an action plan and foreign capacities are engaged, Kosovo can succeed.

But he is not seeing adequate lobbies from Kosovo institutions.

We don't actually have the right lobby, this is going too slow. Last year, 1m euros were spent, which is unknown where they went, and we failed, just because we didn't start over, with many of the ministers' changes to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, then a neglect of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and really this year is going nearly the same”, he says.

However, he says hope should not be lost, which, according to him, should be directed to the lobeing of friendly states.

The “again should not be lost especially in the lobeing of our strategic partners and friendly countries. Let's not forget that last year we have two countries that knew us and didn't vote on us, just because of a lack of lobby. If we continue with this bad trend, we'll fail, but if we start with an update, being more agil at the center of the deployment, especially the diplomacy of friendly states, I think we can make it to”, he says.

Recognitions of political developments in the country are considering not to be learned from last year's mistakes when Kosovo failed to join the large police family.

Rasim Alija says that given last year's developments and during this year, results are expected to be the same this year.

“Ende we have not seen as a public opinion, clearly defined strategy what lessons have been made due to the past-time failure of Kosovo's membership in INTERPOL, on the other hand I don't believe Serbia has changed the approach of lobbying against Kosovo. When we do these two aspects together, the result will be the same, I am very skeptical that Kosovo will once again be able to join INTERPOL and simply remain a wine wish, but without any concrete results or final product that would be Kosovo's membership in INTERPOL. With a very anemic and passive foreign policy during this time, and with frequent shifts in the interior ministry, ministers, lose institutional memory and sever ties, and thus undermines the Kosovo membership process in INTERPOL<18x>, he says.

Constantly, during the efforts of the Republic of Kosovo for membership in INTERPOL, Serbia's diplomacy had committed counter-negotiation, with the aim of obstructing membership.

Currently, reports between Kosovo and Serbia are no longer advanced than in the past year, when the neighbouring state made maximum efforts to prevent Kosovo from being part of INTERPOl.

Now, to Serbia it is also imposed 100% taxes on goods coming from there.

We remember that in 2018 Kosovo has failed to become a member of INTERPOL, since it did not get enough votes, out of two-thirds of the votes of the countries participating in the General Assembly of this organisation.

In the first round, the Republic of Kosovo received support from 76 states, meanwhile against 56, and 22 abstentions.

While in the second round of voting, Kosovo received 68 votes for 51 against and 16 abstentions.

InTERPOL Kosovo has been making membership efforts since 2010, but has not been taken into account by the Executive Committee.

By 2015 and 2016, he had applied but had failed to enter the official agenda.

While in 2017 it was Kosovo that withdrew the demand itself, since there was not enough support.