Kuci: On December 16, 2007, Washington, it was set for independence

“We have been in full co-ordination and often spoken that the independence of Kosovo is unilateral, but what I mean is that the independence of Kosovo has been co-ordinated. And fully coordinated with the U.S. and Quinn states. But the U.S. was more advanced than others. You also remember the visit of former President Bush to Tirana on June 10th, when he first declared it. We had signals and it was a good symbol to show where things are going, then technically we're dealing with the US and with US Ambassador to Pristina Tina Kaydanov, who has been involved and with a team of experts from the United States who have helped us in a technical, organisational, content, law and so on. The date was born in December 2007, was the orientation to the meeting with Nick Burns, to hold the Assembly meeting on February 17th afternoon or February 18th in the morning.

Showing how it has come to this decision, Kuci has said he had international insistences to postpone the date for different reasons, but that, according to him, Prime Minister Hashim Thaci had at the time rejected any postponement.

We were in a hurry. Thaci then accelerated this dynamism and said better is February 17 pm. Why we showed the date was more the reason for any revolt or organisation of the Serb minority in Kosovo to take any action that could be some symbolic of mass deportation, which would create a bad shadow”, Kuci said at the KTV DESKU.