Kurti tells how much money was sent from the diaspora to the Emergency Fund.

Periskopi

22 May 2020, 14:16(6 years ago)

The incumbent prime minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, has announced that so far, thanks to financial support from the diaspora, more than 720 thousand euros have been collected during the pandemic period. He has made it known after a virtual conversation with representatives and undertaken economic platforms in Europe. As it becomes known [...]

He has made it known after a virtual conversation with representatives and undertaken economic platforms in Europe.

As disclosed by a media communiqué by the prime minister's office, Kurti stressed that based on the importance of the diaspora, the government intends to empower its role.

“Diasspora has enormous significance for the Republic of Kosovo, and its importance is reflected in its attention to the Government Programme. In this direction, we think of empowering the diaspora mediator's role in meetings of high levels of political decision-makers and large corporations in countries where they live, creating mechanisms, such as that of the National Council for Foreign and Strategic Investment, which will be placed within the framework of the Office of Prime Minister”, he has said, adding that the diaspora see it as human capital, besides financial.

For this reason, Kurti has said he will focus on creating a national programme that is based on transfer of knowledge and experience from diaspora to Kosovo.

“Praising that diplomacy and diaspora are inseparable in many areas, and with the aim of restructuring representation, this government has joined the Ministry of Diaspores and Strategic Investments with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. That's why we're based on successful international models, like Ireland's”, he's added up.

He has also announced the ease of measures, wishing that soon Kosovo's borders for our fellow countrymen be opened.

Kurti has further said that the Ministry of Finance and Transfers is in preparation for the top of the second fiscal package, that of economic recovery, which, among other things, will have the reorient economy and the diaspora's more active involvement in recovery and economic development.