Grubi talks about “difficult decisions”: Pristina, Tirana, Skopje Must Be Co-ordinated More

The first Deputy Prime Minister in Northern Macedonia, Artan Grubi, has said Kosovo should take his state's example in closing open issues and the way for the European future. According to him, there is no solution but to recognise Kosovo's independence from Serbia, until it expects that this is the outcome which Northern Macedonia supports and accepts.

Grubi said North Macedonia should take an example on the issue it had with Greece and Bulgaria, the solution to which it gave the country a way towards the European Union.

The political “Elita in Kosovo and the political elite in Serbia must take the example of Northern Macedonia, as well as Greece and Bulgaria, in closing bilateral conflicts in order to open up ways for the future... There is no other solution to open issues in Southeast Europe between Pristina and Belgrade without recognition of the Republic of Kosovo's independence on the part of the Republic of Serbia. This is the final result we support and is the only one we accept”, Grubi said in an interview for Kosova Preress.

The number two in northern Macedonia said Pristina, Tirana and Skopje should be more co-ordinated in foreign policy, and that, according to him, they have been delayed in those efforts, Klankosova broadcasts.tv.

He also cited Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama's initiative in his request to drop organ trafficking charges, which were adopted several years ago in the Council of Europe under Dick Marty's report.

“Pristina, Tirana and Skopje should be co-ordinated much more in foreign policy, in particular in the defence of the Kosovo Liberation Army's liberation war values, but also the efforts of all Albanians in Southeast Europe, for freedom, justice, equality, and independence in Kosovo, as well as mutual recognition between Kosovo and Serbia. This co-ordination of our activities is a must and I appreciate that we are late in these efforts and that I would have supported the initiative if Prime Minister Kurti or Prime Minister Rama had come, while we always have support. No evil Kosovo could come from Skopje or Tirana, rather, will have absolute support in any initiative, regional, continental or global”, says Northern Macedonia's deputy prime minister, Grubi.

Weeks ago, Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke in Strasbourg, where he asked the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to change the 2011 resolution and reject allegations of organ trafficking mentioned in the senator's report, Dick Marty.

This initiative, according to Grubi, should also be strongly supported by Kosovo institutions and political parties.

I think this is an initiative that we should all support, Kosovo institutions, political parties, civil society, academic world and not just Kosovo's, but all Albanians wherever they live, because this stain, as I said unfairly, is labeling the efforts of the entire Albanian nation for democracy, for freedom, for independence, and I appreciate that if we unify our efforts, we will succeed.