3 minutes agoRama: Kosovo never to be under Belgrade law again
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Albania's prime minister, Edi Rama, has again talked about the situation in northern Kosovo. During the dinner table for representatives of the diplomatic body accredited in Tirana, the head of the Government of Albania has stressed that Kosovo will never be under Belgrade law again, commenting on claims that Serbia will seek [...]
Rama said the situation with barricades in northern Kosovo is not only useless, but also disturbing.
“is not a good end to the normalisation process between Kosovo and Serbia. Increasing tensions in northern Kosovo is, not only useless, but deeply disturbing. It is amazing that we have to constantly deal with the display of barricades, setbacks in the normalisation process and teams of US firemen and the EU running to save the dialogue machine from the flames of a heavy political rhetoric”, Rama has declared.
The Albanian prime minister has said that Kosovo has been once and for all freed from Belgrade and that there is no going back. According to him, Serbia's request for troop deployment is as surreal as Kosovo's request to send troops to the Presevo Valley.
“recently, we heard up on NATO-made requests to send Serb troops to northern Kosovo to protect ethnic Serbs. I understand this may be another special wave of political rhetoric, but it is as surreal as it would be if Kosovo would seek NATO to send Albanian troops to southern Serbia to protect ethnic Albanians. All this is far beyond what we need. We have entered the third decade since Kosovo was once and for all released from Belgrade. It will never again be under the Belgrade law”, Rama stressed.
He has said that Albania will remain firmly and firmly sided with the Republic of Kosovo every time its sovereign right to be governed by its authorities will be questioned in any form.
Rama has declared that dialogue is the only solution for Kosovo and Serbia, so it is the only platform where the two countries should be instructed.
We only need three things: Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue. The rest is just bad politics. I know it's easier to say that you do that, but any short route taken beyond difficult, even painful dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo, not just for both of them, but for the entire region, leads to a very dangerous territory. We didn't choose to live in this skirmishing neighbourhood of Europe called the Balkans, even if we could have replaced each other with other neighbors. But first, there is no other place on this planet where we can transfer our country, and secondly, each of our neighbors is here to stay”, Rama said.
Rama has stressed that Balkan countries must quickly learn that they have to live with each other to work with each other and help each other because it is in everyone's interest.
He has declared that building bridges of co-operation with Serbia is the right thing for Albania.
We only need three things: Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue. The rest is just bad politics. I know it's easier to say that you do that, but any short route taken beyond difficult, even painful dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo, not just for both of them, but for the entire region, leads to a very dangerous territory. We didn't choose to live in this skirmishing neighbourhood of Europe called the Balkans, even if we could have replaced each other with other neighbors. But first, there is no other place on this planet where we can transfer our country, and secondly, each of our neighbors is here to stay”, Rama said.
Days earlier, Rama, when she was asked whether she would help Kosovo with police and military troops following the situation in the north, had said Kosovo is a sovereign state and on its territory there is no need for police troops of other states. / ABC News
