2 hours agoTahiri: Kurt doesn't have the guts to implement Association.
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Since taking office for the second time as Kosovo prime minister, Albin Kurti has described the process of talks with Serbia as a new beginning of dialogue. But American Ambassador to Pristina Philip Costet says the “history has not started with the Kurti” Government. While, Edita Tahiri, former chief negotiator in talks with Serbia, [...]
US Ambassador Philip Costnett made it clear on Wednesday to Prime Minister Kurti that the UN “states believe Kosovo has the obligation to form the Association of Serb majority municipalities”.
The following day, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, after a visit to the village of Krusha the Great, commenting on the statements of Ambassador Costet, said Kosovo cannot have association on ethnic grounds.
According to him, requirements for one-ethnic association are coming, not from ordinary people, but from politicians from the northern neighbour.
I don't think it's possible in Kosovo's legal and constitutional order to have ethnic-based association. There could be an association of municipalities on development basis, on geographical grounds. But ethnic-based association cannot be passed, neither the spirit nor the letter of the Kosovo Constitution. And practically, that's what the Constitutional Court Act, published on December 23rd of 2015”, Kurti told Kosovapress.
On Wednesday, US Ambassador to Pristina Philip Costet said that “we believe countries have the obligation to comply with previously undertaken agreements and obligations”.
I know some people have said that we've made enough compromises, it's up to someone else to compromise. This is not a very productive way to move forward”, Costett told Radio Contact Plus.
Tahiri: Kurt must not execute Association
Former Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Edita Tahiri, who was also chief negotiator in talks with Serbia, told Radio Free Europe that in relation to his voters, Kurti dares not implement the Association.
“Kurti and Vetevendosje have been against association. Politically Kurt must object to Association, because he has created the cause from Association and has won votes for the matter”, Tahiri said.
She said it is disturbing to try to bring the process of implementing the Association back to Brussels, since, according to her, it is a violation of the agreement for Association of Serb majority municipalities.
Tahiri said the implementation process does not take place in Brussels, as the Serbian side and the European Union are insisting, because the agreement envisions that drafting the statute of this association be made in Kosovo.
