MPs debate government's actions on the Gaza Project today

One of the points of the agenda is the pre-manitary debate over the government's actions for the Gas Project with MCCA.

The parliamentary “Debat regarding the Government's actions for energy diversification alternatives, and especially the Gaz Project with MCC”, is the third point of the agenda.

Otherwise, Economy Minister Artane Rizvanolli has announced on September 30th that the Government of Kosovo will not proceed further with the project for keying Kosovo into the existing North Macedonia gas pipeline, a project supported by the US MCC.

Rizvanolli has said they need more information about the gas pipeline project to know if it is an adequate project for Kosovo's energy transition.

The “Facing the MCC deadlines, we have decided to move forward and use automatic investment for the computer programme, for lower risk investment, but that help Kosovo design the energy sector and create conditions for economic development and private sector development”, it had said at a media conference.

After this announcement of Rizvanol, the Democratic League of Kosovo had demonstrated. The LDK) had said that with this decision, Kosovo refused even $200m that Biden had confirmed as grant-fondde for the Cosova Republic, while calling it unexplainable political paranomism compared to Russian gas.

“Today, the Government of Kosovo rejected the most geostrategic project in the Balkans, that of the gasmen, which would provide our country with gas and gas supplies and the necessary energy transition”, is in response. In addition to the inexplicable political paranomism, he named the same as Russian “gas, with this decision, Kosovo rejected and 200 million dollars, which President Biden had long confirmed as grant é funds thanks to the Republic of Kosovo and the project in question”, is said further in the communique.

The LDK has called this decision a strategic mistake and incomprehensible action for Albanian interests in the region.

“A false strategic step. An unintelligible move for Albanian interests in the region. A two hundred million financial loss in a land without development. Senseless, harmful, unacceptable. Kosovo's dedication to US strategic projects should not be reluctant. Our strategic walk with the United States should be shared in politics, economics, energy security”, the community of this party said.

To reject this project, AAKA Chairman Ramush Haradinaj had also reacted. He had called this a dangerous act against the interests of Kosovo and the United States of America.

I am asking Prime Minister Kurti: During your long visit to Greece, have you met any of the representatives of Russian Gazprom, and is that the reason for refusing the American gas pipeline project! ?

Rejecting the US gas pipeline project is a dangerous act against the interests of Kosovo and the United States of America”, Haradinaj wrote on Facebook.

Even Ehat Miftaraj from the Kosovo Institute for Justice has reacted to the issue.

Miftaraj had written through a Facebook post that he did not expect anything better from a government composed of what he calls the interns and amateurs.

He added, however, that the Kurti government thinks the state is being kept in propaganda and in beautiful words.

The government refuses the gas project. There is nothing better expected from a government made up of interns and amateurs! The government that thinks that with propaganda and beautiful words the state is governed and held”, Miftaraj wrote.

Otherwise, for such a project days ago, President Vjosa Osmani, who has said that in terms of geopolitical and geostrategic terms such a project should not be rejected.

Kosovo's president in an interview for Deutche Well had declared that there could be no other way for Kosovo than co-operation with the United States.

I can't say there's a rejection. It's just that there's a study of relevant experts and ministries, which are in daily discussion with the U.S. state, so it's all cleared up. But never until now I have heard any rejection by the Kosovo government. However, there is time for answers. Because the timelines for answers are clear from the MCC in this case. I have personally spoken to the MCC and also to representatives of the American state, where personally as president I have given my support from geostrategic and geopolitical terms, without entering into the implementation details, because they make the ministries relevant rather than the president of the country. So they have to deal with the issue of building a pipe on the price issue, on the matter of various sums, how exactly it will be bought, when expected to come, what will be the loans that will get, etc. But in the political sense, I think this is an extremely important geostrategic decision for Kosovo and we always have to understand that energy is not only energy, it's also geostrategic. Therefore, I think that there can be no other way for Kosovo but co-operation with the US. That's my opinion as president of the Republic. But then I understand that the ministries of lower levels may have many more questions about implementation and other issues. As a person who really fights that Kosovo achieves these goals of green energy, of course I understand that gas is not 100 percent pure. But compared to coal, used today in Kosovo, it is much cleaner and is also transitional phase”, Osmani declared days ago in the DE questioned that “why Kosovo has not yet responded to the plan for the Balkan Gas pipeline. Why is there a Kosovo rejection of this initiative, which is also supported by America?

President Osmani has said Kosovo should support the gas project as a geostrategic decision.

“But I don't pretend to be an expert on energy issues, so I'm expecting the respective ministries' assessment of other implementation issues, because sometimes it's not just political decision, we need to know how that decision is implemented and to seek even higher, financial support from our partners, including the United States, so that such implementations are successful. But, from the geostrategic point of view, Kosovo doesn't have to look elsewhere. The view must be kept by the United States”, the president had depriced.