Prime Minister Hoti: Government Dedicated to Respect Child Rights

The government of the Republic of Kosovo is committed to working with all its potential to ensure that our children, regardless of ethnicity, color and trust, all the opportunities to live and to enjoy the rights they are entitled to, and are guaranteed even with legislation in force”, Prime Minister Hoti stressed.

 Prime Minister Hoti also stressed that, as a nation, we have special reasons to boast about our peace novelist, Mother Teresa, as she, in distant Calcutta, worked with will and sacrifice extraordinary to the children and other abandoned people of that country. According to its image, let all of us work for the future of our children and the world around us, Prime Minister Hoti said.

 Prime Minister Hoti's full word at a conference launching the results of the 2020 Global Multiple Marketers' Survey

 Your Honor. Ulrika Richardson, UN Co-ordinator in Kosovo,

Your Honor. Thomas Szunyog, chief of the EU Office and Special Representative of the EU in Kosovo,

Your Honor. Murat Sahin, chief of UNICEF Office,

Mr. Ilir Berisha, deputy executive chief at Kosovo Statistics Agency

Dear attenders,

Ladies and gentlemen,

 Let me, on this important day for the children and for all of human society, express to you the congratulations of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo and of mine personally for the important work you have done!

 Global Multiple Marketers Survey 2020 (MICS) is a tangible contribution that deserves recognition, because it creates a detailed mirror not only for children but for our entire society. The institutions of the Republic of Kosovo will carefully assess the data this poll has highlighted so that the guaranteed rights of children do not remain only on paper, but are included in the narrow spectrum of national priorities in the country.

 Children are mankind's future, and we owe it not only to work for them today but also to think about their secure future. Such polls are beneficial, as they present to us the real perspective of the situation on the ground. As such, they enable us to create an even clearer vision of the future.

 Kosovo Statistics Agency, U n NICEF and the other partners involved in this project have offered us a very valuable picture, from which we like Government, but also nongovernmental institutions and civil society in general, can receive important information on the drafting of our policies for the future.

 Dear attenders,

Ladies and Gentlemen

 Beyond the obligations of the United Nations General Assembly of November 20, 1989, the World Children's Rights Declaration must always be an alarm bell for all people of the world's goodwill so as to keep the human conscience awake over the serious injustices and transgressions that even today befall thousands of children of the globe.

 Lack of basic living conditions, lack of food and hygiene, as well as a lack of perspective for development and education are a bitter reality, with which numerous children still face in different parts of the world. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for children to see how war and armed conflict are instrumental and met. So instead of in school environments, they spend their days on fronts of war, and instead of books, they carry guns!

 On this special day, let us be inspired by the good works of prominent people who, at times and under different circumstances in human history, have given us bright patterns of work and sacrifice for needy people, especially children. We, as a nation, have special reason to boast about our Nobelate peace, Mother Teresa. She, in distant Calcutta, worked with extraordinary will and sacrifice for the children and other abandoned people of that land. In her image, let all of us work for them in the future of our children and the world.

 May the rights and freedoms guaranteed by conventions and other acts remain not just words on paper but become vows for each one of us!

 In the end, wanting good work and success to be achieved, I want to strongly reiterate that the Government of the Republic of Kosovo is committed to working with all its potential to ensure that our children, regardless of ethnicity, color and trust, all opportunities to live and enjoy the rights they have and are guaranteed even with legislation in force.