Osmani: I was a refugee myself, within two days the date for Afghans to arrive.

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, in an interview for the BBC, has said that Kosovo is generously awaiting Afghan refugees, citing that it itself has been refugee and that it feels the situation. It's a scene to break your heart. I was a refugee too and we really feel it every day”, Osman said. [...]
It's a scene to break your heart. I was a refugee too and we really feel it every day”, Osman said.
After statements that Kosovo has prepared for the arrival of Afghans a month, Osmani has said they had information earlier from the US and US Army employees in Afghanistan, but that exactly they did not know this would come.
But we're willing to show this readiness without hesitation. The exact number is still being discussed, but we can't be the place we say no to these refugees, of these people in need when we have space and as much space as we can use it to accommodate them”.
We'll probably have them sooner than we expect. At first we thought they'd be here for a couple of weeks and we could have more time to prepare. Within two or three days, it will also be known for the exact date when they'll be here”.
Osmani has said that Kosovo is willing to help even as a Transit State for Afghan refugees, because, according to her, only when working together will it be helped.
The Kosovo president also mentioned Kosovo's case when she was freed from Serbia's genocide regime.
If we don't work together we won't be able to reap success. Even in the case of Kosovo, this was shown. Only when the US, UK and other NATO members alike defeated Milosevic's regime and brought peace to the entire Western Balkans”.
Osman also called on all democratic governments to extend their hand to Afghans the way they extended it to Kosovo.
“If Kosovo, a small Balkan state, can do that, any other country can do it as well. We just have to show generosity”, she said. /Kankosova/











