Kosovo non-membership in INTERPOL, lack of lobby strategy

Kosovo's non-membership of the International Police Organisation (INTERPOL) is being seen by security experts as the biggest failure of the past government led by Ramush Haradinaj.

Security Eskopert Nuredin Ibishi told Online Economy that Kosovo is not well with the membership of the International Security Organisation.

“We don't stand well, unfortunately past governments, especially the past government has been a complete failure”, Ibishi said.

Former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj had called last year for the withdrawal of Kosovo's bid for membership in INTERPOL. The request for membership in INTERPOL included Foreign Minister and Diasporas Glauk Konjufca.

And that fact, according to Ibishi, is becoming that Kosovo has not yet prepared strategies or a team that would deal with lobbies.

Now, I think it's better to apply seed these lines, so in Latin America, that it's just going to be a next failure, because we're not prepared we haven't made a strategy, we haven't made teams that will deal with lobing”, Ibishi said.

He says the most favourable for Kosovo is to wait for application by next year, when the INTERPOL Parliamentary Assembly will be held in Turkey, as according to him it will be more favourable compared to this year held in Latin America.

“We don't have a very good position in terms of our diplomacy, which is very defamatory or not proactive in the system, and I think that next year is better than that that that the ITERPOL Parliamentary Assembly is held in Turkey and it's much more important and it's an environment that we have enough time to lobe even better than once we fail”, Ibishi stressed. Ibishi in this case agrees with Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Minister Glauk Konjuca, who weeks ago at the government meeting, had said that Kosovo should not apply for membership in the International Police Organisation this year, as there will again be a negative result.

I'm sorry. Konjufca is better off not to apply but to prepare the start for next year, in order to deal with an offer of approval. I think we will be stronger this way, that the last government has been a failure in terms of management, but especially in foreign policy has been a total failure”, he said. Ibishi further said that Kosovo continues to remain a black hole in terms of fighting transnational crime, and especially terrorism.

He said that through Kosovo they could pass without any leading control of terrorist organisations, and for that, Ibishi stresses that Kosovo loses much of its membership in the International Security Organisations.

Kosovo remains a black hole in the fight of transnational crime, especially terrorism, through Kosovo can pass without control many leaders or leaders of terrorist organizations, as well as gangs, various mafias across Kosovo, and we because of not access to INTERPOL evidence and not co-operation directly through the office of the UNMIK office that is extremely slow in processing cases, then we lose a lot of”, he said.

Ibishi stressed that Kosovo's membership in INTERPOL cannot help us raise lines for crimes committed during the war in Kosovo by Serbs.

“For that very reason, the annulment itself would bring us many advantages, but normal also in fighting crimes against Serbia itself, as Serbs have committed major crimes in Kosovo, and we are still not actually able until we are members raising prosecutions or sheets for crimes committed in Kosovo”, he stressed.

Kosovo's membership in INTERPOL and EUROOPOL will be one of the government's priorities, Kurti. Even that promise was made by Minister of Internal Affairs and Public Administration Agim Veliu.