Thaci: Social consensus needed for final agreement with Serbia

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has said that Kosovo is home to all and that the Commission for Truth and Conciliance tries to do so. He has said that the final agreement is aimed at this. Thaci has said political and social consensus is needed for the final agreement with Serbia.

You will face Kosovo everywhere with questions why Serbia has not apologised, which is appropriate, you have to face questions about why EULEX, UNMIK, have convicted more Albanians, why no one has been convicted of massacres in Kosovo, and of course these questions should be answered”, he said, Periscopi.

By all the discussion that has been developed so far and the contacts we've had, the entire political spectrum agrees that it should be looked to the future, by integrations for NATO and the EU, rule of order and law, for multiethnic Kosovo, is therefore a broad consensus for internal reconciliation in Kosovo. Kosovo has the need for internal reconciliation, this Commission for truth and reconciliation. Kosovo cannot wait when Serbia is available. The message was encouraging to Ambassador Costnet, also to Switzerland's Ambassador Lebert, but the support given to all states in this process. I think Kosovo is doing what it would have to do, even though more than two decades have passed, but I think it is exemplary in the region. Apart from political consensus, an internal consensus for citizens is needed. We have declared earlier that Kosovo is home to all its citizens, but the only way to move forward is to open a new chapter, from conflict, hatred and hostility. That is what we are trying to make even more of the agreement that can be reached between Kosovo and Serbia. It is crucial that you go to maximum or completely politicisation of this process. You will face Kosovo all around with questions about why Serbia has not apologised, which is valid, you have to face questions about why EULEX, UNMIK, have convicted more Albanians, why no one has been convicted of massacres in Kosovo and of course these questions should be answered. It is full support seen by the US, from the EU there are still no concrete steps, but in the moral sense I know they will support it, how specifically they will move forward I don't know”, Thaci said. /Periscope.

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