Kurti while Prime Minister was away from Hakki Abbas from meeting with NGOs

An unusual event had occurred in March this year between Prime Minister Kurti and a group NGOs, where Kurt was forced to remove his deputy Hakki Abazi from the meeting. It was a meeting where Prime Minister Kurti was in front of civil society, which was invited by Kurti to discuss his deputy corrupt behavior, Hakki Abazi, to which representatives of ten civil society organisations had indicated concern by Abaz's behavior in which the deputy prime minister of the two in government was involved. Kurt.

Express contacted Arton Demhaya of COHU, who was a protagonist even in the event, in which Hakki Abazi as deputy prime minister has pressed charges against civil society and has also been present at the meeting when Kurti had Haki Abaz removed.

He didn't want to give comments.

It wasn't public letter. We have held a meeting with Prime Minister Kurti. We've decided not to communicate with the media about this letter”, Demhaja said about Express.

Contacted by Express, Hakki Abazi, former second prime minister in Government Kurti, has said he does not want to comment or talk about Gazette Express.

I did it with Express. Let's show what civil society organisations” want, Abazi has said while refusing to comment on the meeting between NGOs and Prime Minister Kurti in March.

Even Donika Emine did not want to comment on the meeting and said she did not sign the letter that NGOs sent to Kurti.

I'm on a date. It's about pandemic... For Hakku specifically it's not disk. Hakiu just had Kurt. I didn't sign the letter and I'm not a creditable pair in the process”, Amy told Express.

However, according to these ten NGOs with a strong and reputation in the civil society sector, Hakki Abazi, in the direction of the second deputy prime minister, has charged NGOs and generally the civil society sector, creating favour and privileged access alone to two three civil society organisations, alluding to one another BIRN led by life, Jarra, Intern Kosovo led by Faik Ispahiu and FIQ led by Diana Berisha.

These charges against civil society, Hakki Abazi, had held on March 3, 2020, in the event organised by the Prime Minister's Office, on transparency of public funds for NGOs and launching the online platform for public financing NGOs.

These charges against civil society and favour against several NGOs, which Hakki Abazi has been funding for many years since he was director of the RBF for the Western Balkans, ten civil society organisations including the Balkan Green Foundation”, “COHU!”, “The Kosovar Foundation for Civil Association (KCSF) <x212>, “Group for Jurydical and Political Studies (GLPS) <x114>, “Democratic Institute of Kosovo (KDI)”, “Institute GAP”, “Institute of Kosovo Justice (IKD) ”, “Institute for Development Policy (INDEP)” and “The FOL-1x28> movement has written to Prime Minister Kurti to express concern and to account for the prime minister's behaviour to his deputy, Hakki Abazi.

A letter to Kurti, which owns the Express and has had access to even VV's leader, in general, group of NGOs, had explained the story, in which Hakki Abazi had represented the Government event. Kurt and his behavior, according to the other group NGOs, it had been unacceptable and direct intervention into the non-governmental sector.

This event, sir. The prime minister in his own opening word fully adhered to the government's transparence of government, but analyzed and demonstrated civil society in Kosovo. He led us as a group of mind-making organisations that meet and speak to one another and, in the best case, understood ourselves, as mishandling funds and doers of foreign donors, and redefined the sense of civil society by leading NGOs from the definition of this sector. After all, he appreciated that civil society organisations themselves are a big problem and that from now on transparence will be required and account by NGOs”, said the group's letter. NGOs to Prime Minister Kurti.

In addition, the NGO group continues to elaborize Hakki Abazi's unacceptable behavior.

In other terms, in a comment by members of society that the government must assess for implementation of public funds to NGOs, even by investing in human resources and raising civil servants' capacities, he considered it to be a farce which is derived from some NGOs and public institutions that do not want the transparance. Any discussion, sir. The prime minister had exceptionally antigating and arrogant approach, especially to members of the civil society present in this event, including leaving the hall at the moment of replication with the”, says he left Kurti.

The NGO group, this behavior, has regarded it as unprecedented and scandalous. This approach of a government representative so high is unprecedented. Unfortunately, this happens in the first case when the mandate of this government is discussed in a direct case concerning our sector. Even though it remains scandalous in whatever circumstances, we could consider it an isolated case if it wasn't part of a systemic approach on the other hand. Prime Minister”, said in order of the group NGOs.

This NGO group has listed arguments on Hakki Abaz's scandalous approach to the Deputy Prime Minister of Government. Kurt.

Before the meeting, however, the government's account of co-operation, the civil society, the agenda of a public event does not include open discussion, but only the case from the panel. The invitations to events are either not issued at all or are issued later, and then after demands by civil society. Before and during the event, but also in other related developments, Mr. The prime minister creates advantages and privileged approaches to the two-three civil society organisations. While reports of much of his personal relationship with this organization may be the result of his career being passed as civil society donor, continuing this approach even in the officially unrecognizable post”, it is now said in the group's letter. NGOs.

Group Representatives NGOs have expressed indignation at the approach of Haki Abaz, who have stressed that the first time a government representative has an unacceptable approach in reporting with the civil society, which he is trying to control. We are deeply indignant with this approach, even though historically such ones have only motivated us to do our job, so keep it. Government for its actions. We are not surprised by the person making these statements, but we are concerned that the same are done in official capacity, publicly, and in an event organised by the government itself. Such approaches are characteristic of states and governments which, in turn, limit the freedom of association and expression, narrow the openness of civic action and aim at exploiting authority and state mechanisms to control this life sector for a democratic society. The government and all public institutions have mandated and obligation to provide adequate environment for civil society action, to guarantee and protect the sector's independence and to refrain from any of their access to civil society organisations. What every attempt to show civil society what is needed and what shouldn't be done is the case of this mandate, and would distort non-governmental organisations in government organisation”, said the group's letter. NGOs to Kurt.

On the other hand, these NGOs, directly require an account by Prime Minister Kurti for the behavior of Hakki Abaz, the second-ever Prime Minister of Government. Kurt. By all means scandalized, in civil society organisations brought down, we're asking you to remove us from the position publicly set by the Vice. Second Prime Minister is official position of Government Republic Kosovo towards civil society, and if not, to declare myself clear and publicly about this and 2) to stop authorising. The prime minister two to communicate in the name of Government in what I have to do with civil society”, the NGO letter notes.

NGOs have taken concrete action by Prime Minister Kurti against his deputy, Hakki Abazi. Also, we expect you to take all measures in your computer to prevent mishandling the official task from happening. Prime Minister to create favors for the specific civil society organisation”.

The NGO group has suggested to Prime Minister Kurti that he has let himself be addressed without having to mobilise civil society. Finally, we have decided to make our first communication directly with you, without mass mobilizing civil society organisations and without using public communication, hoping that this approach does not represent the official position of Government. For this reason, we expect our demands to be addressed with urgency and appropriate seriousness”.

Like Albin Kurti got rid of Haki Abaz, who was not accepted for NGOs?

After the letter that the NGO group had addressed to Prime Minister Kurti in connection with Hakki Abazi's corrupt behaviour, Kurti had handed them over to a meeting.

Well, at the meeting, he took Hakki Abbas with him.

As soon as they sat down at the meeting, NGO representatives, they had it all figured out. Kurti that she had made a mistake with Abaz's conduct at the meeting, making it an insult to NGOs.

“P representative of NGOs in the meeting, just as they have before Hakki Abbas present, in the first words they have said Prime Minister Kurti, who feels offended by Hakki Abaz's presence, which was addressed by the NGO's letter to Kurti, and that this Kurti's behaviour is about their letter. In that case, all NGO representatives have been set up to leave the meeting in a demonstration manner. In that case, Kurti is surprised and understands it directly about the concerns of NGOs and has told them Hakki Abbas gets away from meeting”, says the Express, an anonymous source from Kurti's cabinet, which had been present at the meeting. At the moment, Hakki Abazi had left without a comment. The “seems to be the following, because NGOs' representatives didn't even want to stand in the meeting, praising the offensive and bringing Kurt to the presence of Haki Abazi at the meeting, in which NGOs wanted to talk about his behavior that they considered unacceptable and corrupt in reporting with NGOs, says one of the participants there.

However, after Haki Abaz left the meeting by Prime Minister Kurti, the discussion began on the letter's maintenance, which NGOs had expressed concerns about Hakki Abbas' behavior.

Kurti had heard all the versions of the representatives. NGOs, who have expressed concern over how the Kurti Government, which has promoted transparency and accounts, after Hakki Abaz, is aiming to take control of the civil society sector and how it is favouring NGOs, which had once financed them as RBF leader for the Western Balkans.

NGOs have arrived from Kurti that he can be declared publicly as to what government's stance is. Kurti reported on Haki Abaz's stances made by the deputy prime minister on March 3rd 2020, in the event organised by the prime minister's office, on the transparency of public funds for NGOs and the launch of the platform online for public financing. NGOs.

Kurti has promised NGOs that Kurti Government in any form will not enter the work of civil society organisations and that those that are spoken of by Hakki Abazi are not governments of government. Kurt, but his personal attitude. In terms of charges of behaviour to the corruptrs of Hakki Abbas, who has favoured various NGO activities, which for a long time had been their donor, Prime Minister Kurti, had promised to be much more informed about and that he would not sit back but that he would act.