Kosovo soon with final list of organisations it considers terrorist

Justice Minister Abelard Tahiri says that in this direction, the activities of institutions and government dictatorships will intensify over the coming week.

“We are a series of institutions that must make several decisions regarding the president's decree, including the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I believe the following days the prime minister (Ramush Haradinaj) will call the Kosovo Security Council meeting, where we will discuss the president's decree and share our responsibilities. We have already started, at the technical level, sharing our responsibilities, in terms of our obligations to this president's decree to declare terrorist organisations, in line with that of the European Union, Tahiri points out.

Security Affairs Director Nuredin Ibishi, former Kosovo Assembly Presidents, speaking of Radio Free Europe, praises President Thaci's decree on creating the list of persons, groups and organisations involved in terrorist acts, as well as Kosovo is part of the global coalition against terrorism and violent extremism.

I think that this comes at the right moment, especially now when the European Union's black “is up-to-date in January and continues to be the duty of security sector institutions to update it with new data, as well as to put it into the system, with the aim of identifying at the entrance or border crossings, whether at the international airport in Pristina<62>, says Ibishi.

Minister Tahiri estimates that establishing the list of persons, groups and organisations involved in terrorist acts will contribute greatly to Kosovo's national security, as well as Kosovo's international judicial co-operation in relation to the European Union.

We are entering a very important process here, where we will increase our care and commitment to individuals who may be on the list, in front of people who may be leaders, leaders of these organizations, and who, in one form or another, can attend both Kosovo and the region. We will be more vigilant and committed to threats that could come from such organisations”, Tahiri says.

Meanwhile, Ibishi estimates that until now, without such a list of organizations and especially persons involved in terrorist organizations, it has been impossible for them to identify quickly.

Their proceedings through the INTERPOL office in Kosovo have gone too slowly and with procrastinated procedure. So many times it has happened that such people have been able to pass through Kosovo's territory, whether it's transitor or even enter Kosovo without a real control of”, explains Ibishi.

The decree tasking security institutions to create local lists of persons, groups and organisations involved in terrorist acts, President Thaci has released it on 27 June of this year.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, through a post on the social network Titter, had commended the Kosovo president's decision on establishing local lists of persons, groups and organisations involved in terrorist acts. He had stressed that the United States welcomes Hezbollah's appointment as a terrorist organisation by Kosovo authorities and urged all to join this initiative.

Until the establishment of the local list, security institutions in the Republic of Kosovo will implement the European Union's List of Persons, Groups and Organisations involved in terrorist acts, which has been updated on January 8, 2019.