Kurti for dialogue with Serbia: There's a French-German initiative, but there's nothing final

He said that an overall framework of dialogue has been presented at the August 18th meeting in Brussels.

Kurti made these comments from Gjilan after the meeting he held with the mayor of this municipality, Alban Hyseni.

I've proposed the overall framework of dialogue, there's a Franco-German initiative that wants to give Mr. Lajcak more power, as does continued American support. Various models are discussed, but there is no final, much less crucial, that would be said to be the fan-German proposal, and therefore discuss now and give the remarks. More than that, there are ideas around Berlin, Brussels, Washington, but also London, Rome, Paris, Belgrade and Pristina. I have a full commitment to transparency for the process, but it's also the privacy of negotiations parallel to transparency of the process, and all ideas with which we are often tested by officials and diplomats of change cannot be put into the opinion. So something needs to harden to be published, while it's liquid, it's not correct on my part to publish it. After hardening comes publication”, he said.

Regarding the economic trends he spoke of yesterday, Prime Minister Kurti stressed that the achievements are incompatible, and the will of certain government decisions has also been influenced.

Regarding opposition criticism of these trends, Kurti said the opposition attacks and criticises him because he is in charge.

None of the figures I've presented have been contested by the opposition, the opposition criticizes me because it has this task for nature, but otherwise our achievements are indisputable. I can't say that the growth of economic businesses in general and in particular exports is the government's hand, but it's the will and some government decisions, the hand is the workers, the workers who have produced and which then becomes export they have the will and decision”, Kurti said.

In Gjilan, the Kosovo government chief talked even about the minister's resignation, Rifat Latifi, from the post of minister of health, for which he indicated he did as much as he could for 10 months of leadership.

Kurti said that with Latifi, he will continue co-operation and that there is no project he has launched and that Government will stop.

“I have not dismissed the minister of Health, he has resigned, I have thanked him for his work and commitment he has no reason to know neither the knowledge nor the international contacts, and for 10 months he has done all he can, but he is not a person who does not reflect even on his work, and he has said that with the situation he is facing and with the capacities he can do so much. So you know that Dr. Rifat Latifi is a brilliant academic and professionalist and has great value as well as Western academics. I will continue communication and cooperation with him not in this task with his will. There is no project that he started and we will stop, and there is no work that he is engaged in and we will not continue “, he said.

The Kosovo chief of executive added that it is not true that we are saving money in order to spend it on electricity imports.

It's not true that we're saving money in order to spend on the import of electricity, what we're doing is that first we're showing that it's possible not to spend all the money because past governments have created debts like we're seeing it here in Gjilan, while we also reduce debt and show that it's possible to preserve public money. For jobs not performed by economic operators we don't pay, we pay only for the jobs done. Now since there is behind inflation and we have been following remarks that the contracts have grown older for the amount to be handled with the finance ministry, we have compiled a draft law on public affairs so that the inflation issue” can be taken over, he said.

And during his stay in Gjilani, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti also visited several businesses, but also participated in the establishment of the mosque for construction of the Family Medicine Centre. /kp