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The Kosovo Democratic Institute, although welcoming Konjufca's decision to dismiss the 14 Kosovo consuls, estimates such a decision should be based on an analysis showing where violations have been made.

IKD Executive Director Ehat Miftari declared that the dismissal of the consoles could be legitimate and populist, and dismissals should continue if deemed there are legal violations and procedures.

Miftari says that in Kosovo's institutions, legitimacy and legitimacy should be restored and not repeat the situation when close persons of the ruling parties are appointed as Kosovo councils and ambassadors.

“Minister Konjufca's recent decisions on whether the same have legal grounds, if the same have returned legitimacy to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of course, should be welcomed and continued in other cases, when the same may estimate there have been violations of the law, violations of procedures. We like the IKD think that Mr. Konjufca before making the decision would have to do a more simple analysis, an analysis that proves the process that these consuls were sent to different countries of the world... neither can Mr. Konjufca nor this government that with decisions or communiquettes dismissed us as convincing us that the decision has been wicked. The decision can be legitimate, it can be populist, it can be good. As a citizen of this country, I just salute him is the right one, but as a lawyer, I have reservations that the same should convince us that this decision was made through an analysis and tells us where there was a breach. This decision should not be the first decision, but it must be the decision which must precede other decisions, other analyses, other assessments of what has happened in the foreign ministry in recent years, and especially what has happened since the Haradinaj government has been resigning to”, Miftari told Kosova Pris.

And International Law Professor Africa Hoti said Kosovo's diplomatic service needs reform and deep restructuring.

According to him, those who will be appointed to these positions must be meritive rather than parties that are in power.

This decision or weight of this decision will depend on two actions that should follow. The first is the continuation of the reform process in the sense of cleansing our foreign service and reform I'm saying because it's a Ethiopian, and it's clear that each political class that has run with the country through certain periods of our foreign service has had almost as an address to the rehabilitation of certain political militants, and here I'm telling political subjects without exception remove Vetevendosje. [...] The recent annulment of the consuls I think makes sense and makes sense completely if it continues with other cleansings in the sense of building or consolidating a service that we really expect to see. And the second is the fact that to see who will be appointed or who from now on is to make up our foreign service whether the minister of foreign affairs really will install an external service based on the principle of meritocracy or, in turn, we are talking about the removal of one class and the establishment of another political class”, Hoti said.

While Artan Demhay from the organisation Getra declared for Kosovapress that the process of selecting Kosovo consuls and ambassadors in countries that Kosovo has bilateral relations should be revised.

According to him, yesterday's dismissal of the 14 consuls has been necessary since their appointment was made at the time when the government was in office and had no legitimacy for such actions.

I think that such a decision is positive about the fact that that that decision was not to be made by the previous government when it resigned to appoint these. So their dismissal has been within legal frameworks and it has been necessary because it has been disputed as a process and as a decision when it was made... there has been a constant impasse on foreign policy issues, even on consular missions, even on diplomatic missions, and this is because there has really been no proper appointment or selection for ambassadors and consoles in most cases. Because ambassadors or councils of political parties, family members of powerful and influential people have been appointed largely. So I think that a review of all of this has to be made to see where a meritless appointment took place, and without proper professional preparation a process should be revised because diplomacy is a process which in one way or another strengthens the state's sovereignty outside Kosovo”, he stressed.

Otherwise, during yesterday's day the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Glauk Konjufca, has made a decision on Discouraging Illegal Locations, contrary to Article 20 of Law No. 03 L-22 for the Kosovo Republic Foreign Service. Where, under this decision, 14 Kosovo councils have been dismissed.

Their names are:

Geraldina Rexhepi Consule at the Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo in Vienna/Austri

Festim Lushtaku Consulous in the Kosovo Republic General Consulate in Tirana/ Albania. The latter is the grandson of the former head of Scytheak, Sami Lushtak.

Kadri Balaj Consult at Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo in Podgorica/Montenegro

Henor Pachatica é Consulul at the Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo in Sofia/Bulgaria

Xhavit Gerbeshi Consult in Kosovo Republic Consulate in Dusseldorf/Germany

Accommodation Makolli Consult at the Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo in Canberra/Australi

Ramiz Ismaili Consult at the Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo in Abu Dhabi/ EBA

Ismet Hajdini Conulul at the Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo in Prague/Ceki

Modesta Imer Consule at the Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo in Washington/United States of America

Ashref Haxhiu Consult at the Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo in Doha/Qatar

Kadri Gervalla Consul in Consulate of the Republic of Kosovo in Stuttgart/Germany

Lutfi Bilalli Consult in the Council of the Republic of Kosovo in Frankfurt