3 minutes agoValon Murati: Change Constitution, Distract Minority Privileges and Join Albania
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The chairman of the Movement for the Union, Valon Murati, through a Facebook text has reproved the EU's emissary for dialogue, Mr. Miroslav Lajcak after his statements that the Constitution should be amended to make room for the Association of Serb-run municipalities. Mr. Murati believes the Constitution can be changed, but to remove privileges for minority communities. [...]
Mr. Murati believes the Constitution can be changed, but to remove privileges for minority communities. He further adds that even Article 1.3 should be changed that prohibits Kosovo joining Albania or Serbia.
“These changes can only occur as a result of a new international agreement with Serbia and under the guarantee of the United States and the EU that would include redefining the borders between Kosovo and Serbia,” he wrote, Pryskopi follows.
He has declared that possible constitutional change for association would defunct the state of Kosovo.
The Union Movement, a party that had once co-operated closely with Vetevendosje, has strongly supported the idea of exchanging territories, demanding that Kosovo be reunited and Leposaviqi rejoin Serbia.
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Changes of constitution yes, but in what direction is the question!
Lajcak has said in Belgrade that the Kosovo Constitution must change to accommodate a solution between Kosovo and Serbia.
It is true that the constitution must change. But there are several ways in which it can be changed.
1. The constitution can be changed by removing privileges for minority communities, respectively changing Article 65.2, which allows them veto rights in constitutional changes. This change should be followed by changing Article 1.3 that prohibits the unification of Kosovo with other Albanian parts. These changes could only occur as a result of a new international agreement with Serbia and under US and EU guarantees that would include redefining borders between Kosovo and Serbia
2. The constitution can also be changed in order to accommodate an association with executive responsibilities, which in reality would be political-territorial autonomy. These changes could be part of a normalisation agreement that, under all odds, does not include recognition of Kosovo on the part of Serbia, and would therefore imply continuing Kosovo's deadlock on membership in international organisations.
The first changes would make Kosovo a functional and completely sovereign state with the opening of opportunities for development, progress, consolidation of rule of law and fighting corruption. But it would also open up the possibility of joining the Republic of Albania. The second changes would increase the dysfunction of the state of Kosovo and increase Serbia's influence on it. Of what Lajcak said the EU and Kosovo have started on the second road. But how harmful it is for Kosovo that the failure of this project will turn us on track. Fear is that by delaying on the first road, and focusing on association, we will have losses that we wouldn't have had if we eventually followed the line of redefining borders.
