Kamberi: Request reciprocity with Serb rights in Kosovo

He says things seem to have been placed on track and are moving in the right direction as regards the relationship between Kosovo and Serbia, despite the fact that Vucic is presented before his opinion as being invincible. But, MP Kamberi says their political and strategic goal is for Albanians in the Presevo Valley to build reciprocity with the rights of Serbs in Kosovo.

In an interview for Radio Kosovo, MP Shaip Kamberi, among other things, says Pristina and Tirana should have separate state programmes for Albanians in the Valley.

Mr. Kamberi, the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia makes the confronting of Serbia's Parliament more difficult for you?

Nearly every current generation of Albanians has faced a fierce discrimination of Serbian political against Albanians as a whole. This has been reflected in Kosovo, especially, with the barbarous crimes that have occurred in the recent war. So all that political and military machinery, which had oppressed Kosovo for a decade after the war ended, most of it was concentrated in the Valley. And when the political, human and democratic power of Albanians there is supposed to understand what proportion of the confrontation of that war between an Albanian minority in three municipalities living and a state with numerous experiences of discrimination is assumed.

We continue to face similar practices of discrimination, hostage to an anachron policy, an imperialist and hegjmonist policy, which Serbia still thinks and hopes to implement towards Albanians, especially Kosovo. Sadly, despite entering the third decade of the 21st century, the political elite in Serbia has not yet realized that the time of the colonies has ended. It is a fact that the 2000s eventually bring an end to colonialism, much earlier when Great Britain with American support had given up its colonies, Serbia hoping that it will still have a colony, continues with its policies that are absurd, anachrone, which is a myth-based policy and the mythology of the past. But today, direct trouble causes Albanians in Presevo Valley.

Mr. Kamberi, you in Serbia's Parliament, in a way also represent the interests of Albanians as a whole, not just the demands of the Presevo Valley. You must have direct and difficult confrontations?

We do not expect realisation of the rights of Albanians in Serbia and other minorities if Serbia is not democratised. A state which is formally in the process of EU integration, but in which public support for the EU is at lower levels, since the integration process has begun and, in fact, with policies it has, is failing to break away from the past. A state like Serbia can be democratised when faced with its violent past, with the crimes it committed, with the interruption of degloreification procedures of war criminals. This is an update I face in Serbia's Parliament. There Ratko Mladic is cloned, depropriated Voislav Seshel, the convicted war criminals are cloned. So such a Serbia has no predisposition to be democratic. Until it's democratic, neither can we. Therefore, my commitment to parliament in the past two years has not only to the demands of Albanians in the Presevo Valley, but to a broader process of democratisation of Serbia, rule of law, respect for community rights, because the way a state respects communities is the main measure of how democratic that state is. So my confrontation is also with all those problems, which Serbia is causing Albanians in the Valley, but also in the region as a whole.

Now there has been a process of censusing and an increase in the number of Albanians in Serbia has emerged. Can this data affect however little the position of Albanians in the Valley?

If the trend of statistics is forwarded from 1971 onward, we have a decline in the number of Albanians, due to great discrimination, which Serbia is implementing there. But there is a small increase in Bujanoc, especially, and there is a visible decrease of Serbs in the municipality, which raises the percentage of Albanians in this municipality, from 57% to about 62 %, which is a positive result. Perhaps this is the product of what with the municipal government Albanians in Bujanoc, conditions have been created to preserve this situation. We've already received the official report of the Statistics Ent. We need to study it well, see how the non-resident population, what's at the hand. So we don't know how our diaspora have classified whether they are registered as residents of the Presevo Valley or as residents of countries where they live in Europe. We need a thin analysis to give our final assessment, yet the first results for Bujanoc and Presevo are positive with the fact that the ethnic superiority we have is preserved.

The migration of Albanians in the Valley may also have been influenced by the position of Albanians and the failure to uphold their rights in Serbia, how much more so do we not respect the agreements that have been signed?

Yeah. An agreement that has been signed in the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, which has directly to do with interests, especially for the young people of the Presevo Valley, is the issue of diplomas. Not just one, but there are four signed agreements on this subject. It is the Brussels agreement, under theBerlin process, that has been, there is an agreement signed in Washington, which specifically mentions the issue of diploma recognition and is the latter in Ohrid, which sees the issue of document recognition and diplomas as a cruise issue, which is directly affecting the departure of young people. 2008 period: 2023. It's 15 years, it's 15 generations of young Albanians who face a lack of recognition of diplomas. They have conducted their high schooling, their studies, and they have not even been able to prepare for the job market because they are not recognised as diplomas. They haven't managed to pass professional exams, and frustrated people have left in Europe. So the direct consequences of this unnatural, absurd and hostile behaviour of Serbia towards Kosovo are being broken over the back of Albanians from the Presevo Valley.

You raise these concerns over and over again in central instance, and what do you get?

We set up every central instance. Serbia has a position on when Kosovo recognises the University of North Mitrovica we will recognise diplomats. What is disappointing to us is the attitude of the international community. She has been moderator and mediator of reaching these agreements. Those mediating the agreements must understand and create mechanisms for their implementation. Unfortunately, even though they are informed and know in detail this issue, which is actually bleeding the Presevo Valley, there is no concrete action, there is no sanction against Sebi, which continues to have similar behavior towards Albanians. It's not only in relation to diplomas, but in all, with discrimination being done to Albanians. Serbia does not implement its Constitution, which says that in the structures of state organs, in public institutions, in police, the facility of employees must adapt to the ethnic structure of the population. And she hasn't implemented it. At the municipal prosecutor in Bujanoc, there are no Albanians at the municipality court in Bujanoc, of 14 judges, only three are Albanians, who is directly opposed to Serbia's Constitution. Now the latest result of statistics, according to which there are over 60 per cent Albanians in Bujanoc, about 25 % Serbs, would have to be influential for these ratios to change. With these results, I think Serbia loses alibi, why it is not starting to implement. However, this does not mean that Serbia will voluntarily implement this. We have a big job, a job in co-operation with the government in Pristina and with the government in Tirana, in particular with the Western embassies and the US, for this issue to move forward.

Do you have more frequent and direct communication with international representatives in Belgrade to hear these concerns?

Live communication. I have regular contacts with US Ambassador to Belgrade Christopher Hill, with mission chief O The SEU in Serbia, Ambassador Jan Braathu, who has served in Kosovo as well, all are reported in detail on the situation. We've had meetings in Washington with Mr. President. Escobar, which we have announced about the senbilisation of the Albanian issue in the Valley, asking for greater commitment that even the rights of the Presevo Albanians be part of the deal. We also addressed EU representatives in writing, Mr. Borell and Mr. Lajcak, demanding maximum commitment even from those of Albanians not to stay behind and not be allowed to build double standards in dealing with minorities. Seeking, of course, the building of entities in the right, that would be a prerequisite for stability among states in the Balkans. We don't have an answer yet. We will continue our lobby in Washington, especially, to American lawmakers to take the issue of Albanians for money.

Do you think this project can be postponed?

What we have hope of is that we must continue to work. We have no hope that Serbia will voluntarily accept. It will accept these issues on just one condition, when the international community will be vigilant, even threatening to it, that EU standards, where Serbia is claiming at least to join, should respect. First of all, its democratisation will be seen as it respects minority rights.

How do you see war threats Serbia makes from time to time?

No. This is an internal policy. I think Serbia will be forced towards eventual agreement. Will there be signatures or not, in so many seas I don't know, but I am convinced that the situation around Ukraine, such homogenization has not occurred for years in the EU, such transatlantic co-ordination B The E-US, for years ago, has not happened and this will force Serbia to undergo conditions and an agreement with Albanians. However, Aleksandar Vucic's one powers, for 10 years now, have only fostered tensions with Albanians, has strengthened stereopic who exist in Serbia towards Albanians, it is difficult for him to turn around at once. My impression is that you're going towards the deal through the crash. Viewing his opinion that he is invincible, that he will not sign anything, that he will not accept anything about Kosovo, but that things seem to have been placed on track and are moving in the right direction. / RTK