Presevo Mayor: Kosovo government did nothing for Presevo Valley

Arifi has said no commitment to Kurti Government has been seen, as had Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, who sent Serbs with buses to participate in the Kosovo registration process.

“What I see from our prime minister in Kosovo for me is depressing because all the time in the last 30 days, there has been no wisdom in organizing and supporting Albanians in the Presevo Valley. It could have happened the same as Serbia has done, sent buses with Serbs in Kosovo to participate in the registration process at the same time, we have not seen such engagement of the Kurti government in the last 30 days except a video at the beginning and status that it has marked today at the conclusion of this” process, Arifi said at RTV Dukagujni.

According to him, the data is generally good because, says Arifi, there has been a double of the population in the Presevo municipality and a commitment throughout the Valley to increase the number.

Because we are over 120 thousand citizens in the Presevo Valley”

He has said the census Kosovo is experiencing at this moment of dialogue is a census that further reinforces Kosovo's position in negotiations.

For this reason I want to thank all who have participated in motivation or registration because they have shown foresight and patriotism. Besides what we have had in Medvedja in the census, the census has generally been in favour of Albanians in the Presevo Valley”, Arifi added.

“In Medvedja have been hampered by Albanians, the terms have not been contained, Serbian recorders have not come, when recorded they have not registered a resident, the municipal administration in Medvedja has been deconstructive and received protest marks from O The SEU because there have been numerous complaints among Albanians there. Serbian politics there has been sweeping the 7 thousand Albanians in recent years, and now have struggled through the census to adjust this figure for the past 10 years and thus have created numerous obstacles on the ground”, he has said.

While commenting on the Serbian president's statement, Aleksandar Vuciq, who has said that the lists for which Prime Minister Kurti has reacted are being blown, demanding international surveillance in the entire counting process, Arifi has said there are no other expectations from Vuciqi.

I didn't expect anything else from Vuciq because it's a rhetoric that I use in a continuous way, even though in the end I always try to end up with a kind of democratic language so that man can't figure out whether it's authoritarian or a cydu-democrat that it isn't, in this context I didn't expect anything more”, Arifi said.

As much as this problem may present in the data that must be recorded, Arifi has expressed no doubts, because, as he has suggested, the census is financed and monitored by the European Union.

“The census is financed and supervised by the EU, and in this context we are unified and we have achieved a good success in this census. We have confidence in the EU. If the figures are manipulated or if they don't turn out the way we have them recorded, then that means that the EU has evolved into manipulation of these numbers, which I don't trust”.

Vuciki's “The statements are more an expression of the despair of what its discriminating and passive policies of Albanians in the past 10 years, now with our census, have been exposed, in this form and despair has added to them, and for me it's something frightening”

The Kosovo Government's decision on plates, Arifi: It's nothing to me

On the other hand, Arifi has commented on the Government of Kosovo's recent decision regarding license plates that have not been converted by illegal ones in the RKS.

I am critical of the content of decisions. It's defacto from a distance that the litre's weight is on Serbia's side and Serbs in northern Kosovo, and we're not knowing how to lift that burden. For me, what I've been critical of is not to deal with simple license plates and symbols but with substance with reciprocity. Now it's turning to the Boomerang government and Kurti, who's entered a dead end with the decision on the plates thinking they're doing where to know what to do with Serbia. It doesn't work like that. It's nothing to me. It's the decision on the license plates.

Given the demographic composition especially in Presevo, the number of Albanians in Serbia is approaching 100 thousand. The answer, dilemmas will take place after November 1st, the date when the census and official publishing of the results ends.