Kurti: I expect Borrell's invitation to meet with Wuchiqi, I'll be constructive, committed and creative.

Kurti said that on the 15th anniversary of Kosovo's independence, we joyfully celebrate the successes and at the same time pain for the high price we have paid.

He insisted that mutual recognition should be at the centre of the Kosovo-Serbia agreement, while with regard to the Association of Serb Majorities, Kurti said that such a thing is not required of Serbs living in these municipalities, but from Serbia itself, as according to him, Serbia does not allow the integration of Serbs in neighbouring states, as it still aims to create a Serbian NGO. He also said that in the same agreement that includes the Association, Serbia violated it when it sent letters to five EU member states of Kosovo's independence, urging them not to accept Kosovo's application for EU membership.

Kurti also said he is awaiting invitation from EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell for an upcoming meeting in Brussels between him and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucinq.

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DW: How does time celebrate this year, 15 years from declaring or independence?

On the 15th anniversary of independence, we joyfully celebrate the successes and achievements, and at the same time, pain and grief over the high price we paid, both the liberation and the independence of our country, remembering those who sacrificed and contributed. Kosovo is recognised by 117 countries around the world, and today Kosovo's image in the world is the best since we have declared independence”

“In the last two years, we have advanced 20 countries in terms of fighting corruption, according to the prestigious international organisation “Transparency International”, for the second time we are the first in the Balkans, according to <x3World Justice Project” and have also advanced 17 countries in terms of media freedom. Economic growth four per cent after inflation is lifted, exports have increased by 23 per cent, tax revenues 22 per cent, budget for 17 per cent, and foreign investments for 44 per cent. So democratic progress and economic progress in Kosovo is a valid one. This makes us both proud and optimistic”,

DW: Of course, Kosovo's biggest challenge is dialogue with Serbia and reaching the final agreement, there's a lot of mention here in the Serbian Majories Association, the Franco-German plan that is now being made by the European Union, will there be a quick solution, or how you see it, what's important, how will you get out of the state of signing the agreement, or all the atmosphere that exists?

The dialogue in Brussels is the dialogue on the status of relations between Kosovo and Serbia, with the goal of full normalisation, which should have mutual recognition at the centre -- that is, not the dialogue for the status of Kosovo, but the status of relations between Kosovo and Serbia. Kosovo, except that it has declared independence here 15 years ago, has a positive opinion from the International Court of Justice, which found that its declaration of independence has not violated international law, already in 2012, in September, the monitoring of independence was completed. So let us not forget the first four years, when we declared independence, we have not been fully independent. Our Republic, so to speak, had a king, Senior diplomat Pieter Feith, who was well known to our region and who was over the president, over the assembly of government, but the 25 states of the international supervisory group said: Enough is enough. Kosovo must complete international supervision of independence, and Kosovo has since been independent. Now what we have to do is to normalise relations with Serbia, I don't say that mutual recognition is the only thing that the agreement will include, but it has to be in the centre, it can have normalisation without recognition and we should also address the issue of national minorities. In Kosovo there are 93 per cent Albanians, 4 per cent Serbs, 3 per cent are Turks, Bosnians, Roma, Ashkali, Egyptian and Goran, meanwhile, in Serbia, about 80 per cent are Serbs, 20 per cent are Albanians, Bosniaks, Hungarians, Bulgarians, have a total of 21 minorities there, so there can be no major differences between the rights of national minorities, if we want lasting peace and security. The association of municipalities with the Serbian Majority is part of an agreement in April 2013 that Serbia's president violated by December 10th of last year, where I sent letters to Spain, Slovakia, Romania, Greece and Cyprus, demanding that Kosovo's application for membership in the European Union, which I submitted to December 15th in Prague last year. So their most beloved arrangement, they violated it, ironically on international human rights day, December 10th. It takes reciprocity of rights, constitutionality and legitimacy, and that agreement has not passed the Constitutional Court test and cannot have one-ethnic association. The Communists Association can be on developmental views, without forgetting that Kosovo has an Association of Communists and what Zvecan, Shtrpca and Partesh, could do in that association. I'm not to discriminate against anyone, but neither to favor anyone else. The association is not the requirement of Serbs, it is Serbia's request, which does not allow Serbs to integrate into either Bosnia and Herzegovina or Montenegro or Kosovo, because it wants to complete the project of Great Serbia, which has now changed its name to the Serbian world.

DW: Do you believe you can negotiate the share of artificial recognition? In the Kosovo Assembly, you have said, however, that this plan is either a release or a take.

The proposal is the basis for further discussions, the solid platform for moving forward, has work to turn into an agreement, but I will announce the deputies of the Republic Assembly, and in particular the leaders of opposition parties, they will have no surprise on my part, we will co-operate as state institutions so that what is right and useful for the Republic of Kosovo will be realised. But here we are not only the factor, there are the European Union and the United States of America, and there is also Serbia, the official Belgrade, respectively. Whether we have an agreement or not and whether we have, as soon as it depends heavily on the pressure of international factors on Belgrade, which is neither being distanced from Milosevic in the past nor from Putin to the present.

DW: Finally, could a meeting with President Vuciq be expected, and what could be the agenda of such a meeting?

From August 18th, our meetings have a clear structure, the meeting is held in Brussels, with the invitation of the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security, Josep Borrell, who is assisted by his emissary, Miroslav Lajcak, at the first point of the agenda; the overall framework of the agreement; and the second item is the current issues. I expect to make a deal dialogue and I expect Mr. Borrell to invite us soon, but when he does, of course it depends on his assessments. For my part, I have expressed willingness, will, interest and will be constructive, committed and creative.