8 minutes agoKosovo loses opportunity to return pension fund from Serbia, will pay from budget
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)In the absence of access to the pension fund taken from Serbia, Kosovo will be forced to pay an additional 60m euros annually for pensioners who left their jobs in the dealt with the 1990s. The state has lost the opportunity to return funds, as it has sent no opinion to the Committee of Ministers on the Council [...]
In the absence of access to the pension fund taken from Serbia, Kosovo will be forced to pay an additional 60m euros annually for pensioners who left their jobs in the dealt with the 1990s. The state has lost the opportunity to return the funds, since it has sent no opinion to the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers responsible for overseeing the implementation of the European Court for Human Rights's decision, which, in the case, imposed on Grudzic to pay for the outstanding pensions in 1999.
In the absence of access to funding, Kosovo, along with other pensions, will pay about 60m euros a year for violent workers removed from work during the years of 90.
The only opinion that was sent to this Committee was that of the ombudsman, who, according to former attorney Hilmi Jashari, did not take into account.
“In the absence of reaction of Kosovo institutions, the Council of Europe's Community of Ministers in 2017 has declared it a closed case and as a completed issue. All the while, there have been opinions from Serbia that would contain that this issue be discussed within the framework of the talks in Brussels, and it has happened that it has also been discussed as the possibility that they have confirmed the same position, even though it was the Serbian side's proposal”, Jashar said.
The inclusion of the issue in the context of the dialogue also called for the Kosovo side. Muhamet Mustafa, who was part of the negotiating team, has said to have put forward several requirements in dialogue regarding pensions, which account for about 950m euros.
We have had a consensus from the European Commission that this issue takes priority and is resolved as it is considered an easier issue to resolve, along with others, such as the damages of war and has been an orientation with the issue. We have been close to a consensus, and this issue has been interrupted in December 2020, after the Serbian delegation made instructions and came the next Government with an agenda of subjects, and this issue did not come to account for”, Mustafa said.
But for Yasar, discussing the issue within the dialogue was wrong.
The Ministers' Committee at the time has declared it a closed issue, and even if the possibility of dialogue is expressed, the Serbian side will not accept entry into the process, as it is not in their interest and they have to minimise the tendency to enter into dialogue, since the Council of Ministers has announced it closed”, Jashar said.
With the decision of April 17th 2012, the Strasbourg Court's court had been granted the right to return pensions suspended in 1999, two pensioners from Mitrovica with the surname of Grudzic, who had been displaced in Strasbourg, as this court did not consider complaints of residents of states who are not members of the Council of Europe.
With this conviction, in the opinion of the ombudsman, all potential plaintiffs have been recognised as well, for taking means from the Pension Insurance Fund and Invalidor (SPDIF). /Koha.net
