Albanian Chief Parliamentary: Council of Europe to remain incomplete until Kosovo is accepted

Chief Prime Minister Lindita Nikola received word today at the conference of parliament speaker of the Council of Europe member states in Athens.

During her speech, Nicolaus stressed the European continent, such as the continent of asymmetries, and more specifically the difference between the values that stand at the foundation of the Council of Europe and the refrarate attitudes of some EU member states towards the Western Balkans.

Values that protect and develop large pan-European organisations, the Council of Europe, are not guaranteed, as long as the Western Balkans remain outside the EU and Kosovo outside the Council of Europe, it was the appeal of Chief Parliamentary Nicola.

“While the Council of Europe, the European Family, has expanded to 47 members -- to the European House, the European Union -- so far only about half of them have entered. The future of European citizens will be what we want and dream about when all the nations making up the European family will enter the European home. The values that we European nations have joined in the Council of Europe cannot be revived if EU enlargement policies will be initiated, not by merits, but by other ambitions, which benefit from the principle of consensus”, Nikola said.

The Council of Europe will remain incomplete until it accepts Kosovo, Europe's newest state, a new state, established by Atlantic Europe, along with strategic allies, the United States of America”, it said.

The next “Asimetrination relates to the current situation in the European Union and the reluctance in the enlargement steps. We are entering the fourth decade of the continent's democratisation wave and Europe's geographical and cultural boundaries are still far from its political borders, the European Union. In the name of the common future of its citizens, Europe must approach political boundaries with its geographical boundaries”, Nicolaus stressed.

A section of the continent, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, was called Central and Eastern Europe, although at different speeds, gradually integrated into the EU. The section that was left out came wrinkled, first the Balkans, and today in what we all call the Western Balkans”, Nicolaus said.

The “as the chiefparliamentary, but also as a citizen of one of these countries, I would like to raise concern that the Western Balkans, from a geographical term, has received a clear political, sometimes negative, comission today. And this is because enlargement policies have been unable to overcome barriers and prejudices about our countries. We are standing in line in front of the EU gates, which should have been our home for a long time. We must all understand that the Western Balkans are an added value and not an added problem of the European Union”, Nicolaus underlined.

To be convinced that this situation is undeserved, we must consider the contribution of each of the European nations to Europe. We will build a better future for our citizens if we contribute to our continent softening these asymmetries. Co-operate for a continent belonging to all its inhabitants equally. Where the terms “Where ethnic and religious mosaics will be a wealth rather than a source of strife and strife. Where leaders will not argue whether to accept immigrants or persecuted by outsiders. This is the Europe that its citizens deserve, our citizens”, underlined in her speech, Chief Prime Minister Linddita Nikola.