Analyst: Personal reports Kurti '% Rama endanger co-operation between Kosovo and Albania

Attending the Western Balkan Leaders Summit, to be held tomorrow in Tirana, will be Albin Kurti's first official visit to Albania, to his second term as prime minister. In the first term, Kurti had respected the tradition that had been established by institutional leaders in Kosovo since the duty was accepted, the first visit abroad to Tirana. But that was not so in March, when the second mandate began, despite having an invitation from Albania's chief executive. For this reason, not enough good reports are being mentioned with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. While such a thing is being denied by the Vetevendosje Movement, political analysts in Kosovo and Albania say reports between the two countries are at the lowest point.

Vetevendosje Movement MP Arjeta Feyza in a statement to Kosovo Press says Kurti Government is engaged in implementing agreements reached with Albania in response to those criticising the reports between the two countries.

So we already have concrete initiatives of co-operation with Albania. That election issue I consider is another issue and will in no way hinder co-operation that we will have with the Government of Albania and initiatives we think to take for deepening co-operation. I think that in response to these statements we have concrete initiatives and joint work”, Fyza told Kosovo Press.

But, otherwise, the director of the Institute of Political Studies in Tirana, Africa Krasniqi, who for Kosovo Press, said that Albania's relations are at their lowest point.

“We would have to have stable institutional co-operation, regardless of who are the people who run at certain times. Virtually Albania's relations -- Kosovo is at its lowest point. There is a growing distrust and there are politicians' personal attacks on each other. In Tirana and Pristina, there have been articles deigning mutual political figures, including the two prime ministers. While the two prime ministers' report, as seen in the recent informal meeting, is more personal report than the report between the two governments and institutions and whether there is anything we would have to reflect on, including the new cabinet in Tirana and the new cabinet in Pristina, is the first to give up symbolic acts, as has Tirana done with periodic statements for Kosovo or the appointment of Kosovo politicians in Albania for certain periods, or as Pristina has done with Kurti's decision to participate as voters in Albania's last elections and to have Ram1-based candidates, Krasni said.

Kosovo and Albania do not prevent anything from having as good reports in all spheres as possible. So says political connoisseur Imer Mushkolaj, who for Kosova Preris said interstate co-operation should never be turned into a personal report among leaders.

The “should also say that Kosovo and Albania do not prevent anything from creating the best reports in all spheres. They don't have any obstacles, but it seems that personal resentments or resentments involving the political partisan rages of one or another in power have brought about the situation again to talk about improving reports between the two countries. We know that past years have sometimes met governments of both countries, where an extremely large number of agreements have been signed, but it is another issue that these agreements have been implemented and now another meeting is needed to see how far those agreements have gone and whether they have been implemented or not. Now in power, in Albania is Rama and Kosovo is Kurti. Of course, if we talk to Mr. Kurti's logic when he was in opposition, he would not have to meet and co-operate with Rama as Albanian prime minister, but Mr. Kurti is now in the prime minister's quality and beyond the proper names it is important that the two countries co-operate as independent states to each other, respectively, as very close states. Consistently any effort to reveal this interstate co-operation in the context of any personal report is harmful and would damage most reports between the two countries”, Mushkolaj said.

On this subject, Kosova Prees has also turned to the Government of Kosovo to ask why Kurti has not conducted an official visit to Albania, once he receives the mandate. Also, the government has been asked whether the support of the Vetevendosje Movement for the three candidates who competed as independent in Albania's elections has affected reports between the two prime ministers. For all these issues, it has been several days since the government has returned no response.