22 minutes agoNearly a month since the Ohrid Agreement, Krasniqi says no action has been taken for the draft association status
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Local Power Management Minister Elbert Krasniqi has declared that no action has been taken by the team for drafting the statute for forming association. He said it is difficult to provide documentation from the team in the past, since activities have not been conducted transparently. According to the 2013 agreement between [...]
Under the 2013 agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, the Managing Team would take responsibility to propose the draft Serbian majority municipal association state, the statute that will define organisational structure, purposes, decision-making processes and its competencies.
For the first time in 2016, the Ministry of Local Self Government Management of the Government of Kosovo appointed the Management Team. Yes, currently, very little is known about the composition of this team.
Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi, days ago, has confirmed that Serbia's MP, Danijela Vujicic, is at the helm of this team.
Prime Minister Albin Kurti has also said that part of the team are two Serbs from the north, two from the south, chief of O. SBE and Local Power Management Minister.
Minister of Power Management Krasniqi, in the Kosovo interview, has declared he has not taken any action so far.
Until this moment we are talking, I as minister have not taken any action towards meeting or setting up the work of any kind of team”, Minister Albert Krasniqi has stated briefly.
Krasniqi said neither can he talk about deadlines when there will be any proposals from this Ekip, despite the recent agreement in Ohrid requires that it be accelerated with the implementation of past agreements.
I am not an active part of dialogue as minister, and I cannot speak with any kind of deadlines. But what I can share with you right now is that there is no action taken so far, as Minister of Local Power Management in this direction”, Krasniqi declares.
Minister of Government Management Lokal said it is difficult to provide documentation on the team's work in the past.
I can't talk about a specific role, you're referring to an old deal and the old deal is that this technical team has reported to the Ministry of Local Power. And I'm having a little hard to provide documentation on team work in the past. Because more transparent activities have not developed. But that's why we're going to be very careful about our actions and our jobs”, he follows.
Citing the 2020 decision by former Prime Minister Goran Rakic, he said this technical team consists of two northern and south Kosovo members.
The “is a 2013 decision that has been completed in 2016 and then even 2020 by the minister of Rakiq. We talk about a technical team, which has been composed of two members from the north of Kosovo and two members from other municipalities in the Republic of Kosovo”, has concluded the minister Krasniqi.
The association of Serb majority municipalities is designed to gather about ten municipalities in Kosovo inhabited by Serb majority: Northern Mitrovica, Klokot, Partesh, Ranilug, Gracanica, Zvecan, Zubin Potok, Novoberda, Leposaviq and Shrpca.
Under the agreements, the Association aims to represent the collective interests of these municipalities, separately in the field of education, health, urban and rural planning, as well as the economy.
