LVV boasts visa liberalisation, LDK's PDK say this government has no credit

According to the LDK's PDK, at the expense of the majority has lost the moment for Kosovo to gain liberalisation since 2016, as this opposition party opposed demarcation of the border with Montenegro.

Parliamentary Group of the Vetevendosje Movement MP jeta Statovci considers that Kosovo has more stability than any other country in the region. It says the removal of the visa regime has resulted from improved in relation to rule of law and the fight against corruption.

I can say that currently the focus and focus on our new democracy is being conveyed by other elements that speak of strengthening democracy as the strongest democracy in the whole region, given the issue of financial sustainability and economic performance that give a higher stability than the rest of the region, the improvement in the relationship with the rule of law and the fight against corruption, are the very positive signals which are welcomed even by the eurodeputs, I believe are now conveyed further to the mechanisms that are in the framework of the EU, so we see success here, which includes the first visa liberalisation of the Council of Europe, which has the rights of humanity, as well as the cause of democracy, Stax.

But the opposite is said by Democratic Party of Kosovo MP Blerta Deliu-Codra. The first step towards membership on the Council of Europe, Deliu-Codra calls it good news, but which requires more work towards membership in the KiE.

“Of course, the application for the Council of Europe and the fact that Kosovo has passed a first round is good news for Kosovo, and of course we should all rejoice even though it is only the beginning of a commitment. You have also seen the commitment of states and we still have work left to make our membership reach this key mechanism”, Deliu-Kodra said, while blaming the VV for delays in visa liberalisation.

“In the meantime on the visa issue, I consider that there has been a great injustice being done to Kosovo. We in 2016 have fulfilled all the criteria. It is not a matter of merit that it is painful that Kosovo citizens for so many years have lived isolated from a right unjustly denied to Kosovo. In 2016. The decision has been political, the EU's reasoning has been that it was taken by the Council of Ministers, and of course the development of new circumstances, the fact that we for three years have lost a moment of prolonging the demarcation of the border with Montenegro, and for that there is a responsibility, but I'm saying that it can't be attributed to credit because they have been unjustly deprived of a right of Kosovo”, Deliu-Codra says.

While the Democratic League of Kosovo deputy, Rzazarta Krasniqi, delays for visa liberalisation for Kosovars have come as a result of the dispute with Montenegro.

Says Vetevendosje has pushed the liberalisation process further.

“Not at all has the credit, and especially in terms of visa liberalisation, because in 2015-16, Kosovo has been in little bit with Georgia and Ukraine on the issue of visa liberalisation, while at that time it has been the Demarkation Agreement where this party has been in opposition and has staged violent protests, also in the Assembly has thrown tear gas against this agreement. So this (VV) has only postponed the visa liberalisation process, but now it has come a different moment knowing the war in Ukraine and more or less the agreement that has been agreed on in Ohrid, so these two processes as related to the” agreement, Krasniqi says.