Another violation of Donika Gervalles, husband and wife, takes them on consular mission to Germany (Document)

With two decisions in less than two weeks, Foreign Minister Donika Grovalla has arranged both men and women at two consulates in Germany, which are at a distance of about 200 kilometers, says the time.

In the documents he provided Periscope with the November 8th decision Hamdi Brbatovci, who has so far served as an interior audience in the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora, has been appointed head of consulate in Stuttgart. Similarly, the MPJD has been made sure that it is given promotions of the council, which, in the order of the law, appears to have been overcome by three degrees passing through the respective MPJ Commission. Men and women have started working on relevant missions on December 1st.

Meanwhile, with a decision November 17th, his wife Dardana Citaku, with the rank of viceconsule, is assigned to serve at the Frankfurt General Consulate.

“Zj. Dardana Citaku, with the deputy consular rank, is assigned to serve in the General Consulate of the Republic of Kosovo in Frankfurt/ Federal Republic of Germany, with a four-year mandate. Mrs. Citaku, begins implementing her duties and obligations in the General Consulate of the Republic of Kosovo in Frankfurt/ Federal Republic of Germany, from the date 01/12-2023”, says the decision signed by Minister Gervalla.

Below, find two decisions you have Periscope: 

Various sources in the MPJ have told “The Coha” that in the case of Brbatovci, promotion procedures that apply to other members of the foreign service have not been respected. A diplomat before arriving at the councilor's rank, the first to be given is a strike, then Secretary Three, second secretary, first secretary and then Councillor.

This mode of promotion defines Article 26 of the Law for Foreign Service, under which the main elements for providing a degree are service time, qualifications, and assessment of the results of work.

“1. The advantage of foreign service officials is done by relying on the promotion system. The main elements in providing a degree for the member of the foreign service are service time, qualification and assessment of the results of the work. 2. In addition to the ambassadorial rank, the degrees are provided by the Commission of Graduates and Discipline, on the basis of data that is found in each employee's personal file and based on estimates made, according to the criteria and regulations set out in the Order for Foreign Service”, says Article 28 of the law.

Until Brbatovci has offered no clarifications regarding the appointment, the MPJD has argued with him that the Law does not foresee restrictions on what is the first diplomatic grade. But no clarifications have been given as to what the results of the work on overcoming the degrees in the case of Brbatovci, which became part of the MPJ on the heels of the Diaspora Ministry.

“Based on the Law in force for Foreign Service, Article 28, estimates that career advancement is made on the basis of the promotional system and that the key elements in providing a degree for the member of the Foreign Service are service time, qualification and assessment of the results of work”, the MPJD” says in response to the MPJD. The “given that this Law was adopted in 2009 at the time that the Foreign Ministry was established for the first time, these legal provisions did not presuppose restrictions on what is the first diplomatic grade to be given, and this has been defined as the competence of the Commission for Grada and Discipline, which in view of these legal criteria, respectively, qualification, experience and position decide what is the adequate degrees and in line with these criteria. In concrete cases, all procedures and criteria that are presented with the Law in force” are respected.

Under the Foreign Service Law, the minimum period for transition from one degree to another is determined with the relevant regulation.

The regulation completed for the 2009 foreign service stipulates that members of the foreign service have the right to apply for promotion or appointment in new positions after serving a year in positions in foreign service.

“1.1. The members of the Foreign Service, who have diplomatic or Consulial Grada, after serving 1 (one) year in positions in the Foreign Service, have the right to submit a request for the Marching or appointment to new positions, while members of the ministry who do not have the Diplomas or Consulates earn it right after serving 1 (one) at the minister”, writes on regulations.

Furthermore, it is determined that, the Commission meets once in autumn and once in spring each year, “and each other as necessary, to prove the appointment of degrees and to consider any case of violations”. The commission consists of seven members. Part of the Commission has also been the director general in the MPJD, which was down after the MPJD reshuffle. This dissector has not shown who currently participates in voting instead of the director of the Commission for Grada and how decision-making has been done in the Brbatovci case. Brbatovci's appointment was disputed even when the interior audience by Minister Grovall was appointed. According to the trade union operating within the MPJD, commitment was done without the legal basis for fusion and conflict of interest, as his family was working in the audit unit.

Mr. Hamdi Brbatovci, in addition to being made, still without the legal basis for fusion being regulated, poses conflict of interest when his family in the audit unit is found that, according to professional ethics, is not impartial with the work and commitments of the audit field”, writes in the Association's response, with which the prime minister and Parliamentary Commission for Foreign Affairs had reported.

The MPJD has not responded even to the circumstances that Citaku's Brbatovci are marriage mates.

The drill has been criticised for selective access to the MPJD appointments and promotions process. Efforts to halt the process have been made by the MPJ Union Association, which is witnessed through numerous paperwork. Also, members of the association have not been involved in the promotion process.

The violations were denounced at the Anti-Corruption Agency, until both the prime minister and the Parliamentary Commission for Foreign Affairs had been notified. According to this association, the Commission's haste for Grada and Discipline to review the files of only a few diplomats and the signing of their degrees on the part of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for them alone, without the entire process of the Commission's work being completed, “has established the conviction that we are dealing with a assembled, informed and conflict of interest”. In one of the association's complaints, it writes that people without files analysis have been recommended if they meet the criteria for legal employment and the taking of degrees legally.