Mustafa sees the Ohrid Agreement heavy: Kurt is straining the situation in the north

Former Kosovo Prime Minister and former Freedom of the Democratic League of Kosovo Isa Mustafa declares that there has been no need to strain the situation in the north of the country and that the mayors there have not needed to be “installed in their offices with special police units”.

The problem is that Mr. Kurti is straining the situation in the north, but not just north is creating a tension, creating an international response to this, and then in a form wanting to get the position of deployment, for a situation that didn't have to be tense, there's no need to be taken up by all those police forces in the north, there's no need for the mayors in the north to be installed in their special police office, because it's not the Kosovo Police Unit for the mayors' office, but it's a whole different role, he says.

The former LDK leader is convinced that the situation in the north of the country has been complicated since last year, when it has been talking about vehicle plates and then, according to him, with the taking of different measures in the country's north, as he says, having unregistered with internationals.

He points out that the prime minister can escape implementation of the mutual recognition agreement with Serbia, as he underlines, through the actions of the transition of the situation to the north.

The “has been a practice in the north of the country has been major interventions, they have been done with compliance or with a co-ordination with Americans and with Quinti countries, even with the international community in general with NATO and KFOR, and they have been missing this time, why they have been missing to give reason and explanation Mr. Kurti why we've come to this situation so that Brussels and Ohrid can accept a situation which has not been pre-priced before, because it was meant to be an agreement for mutual recognition, a recent agreement and security stability, we say provisional that provides a status quo that was made there, but has been made and accepted by Mr. Kurt. So Mr. Kurt cannot escape implementing this agreement through the various actions of the transition of the situation to the north of the country, what he has done so far.”, he underlines.

In an interview for Kosovo Press, Isa Mustafa also talks on the issue of the Association of Serb-run municipalities.

Regarding the agreement on principles for establishing association, 2015 between Kosovo and Serbia, Mustafa says the document has been made as their obligation to implement the law for ratification of the first agreement, 2013, when Kosovo and Serbia have reached the first agreement on normalisation of relations.

“Now I have also publicly expressed that as regards the 2015 document I assume responsibility because we have made an unconscious document, the document has been made as our duty to implement the first agreement presumption law, because the first 2013 agreement was ratified in the Kosovo Parliament, then I was neither the prime minister nor the MP of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo, I was the head of the LDK of a party that was in opposition. And in 2015, I have inherited the obligation by law that the government should enforce the agreement in 2013 and I have worked to find and that with an alternative to implementing that law and that agreement, that is why it was born and that document in 2015 and that I don't want this foundation and the beginning is in 2013, there has been ratified an agreement with 2/3 deputies has been ratified by law, and internationals now say that you by law imposed your country on you to make association, but in that period I did not but the government has made it. Thaci, he doesn't blame that government because he didn't do it willingly or gladly, but he does, since he's international duty”, he says.

According to Mustafa, much more serious is the Ohrid Agreement reached on March 18th between Kosovo and Serbia.

He also sees the issue of the position of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which is envisioned at the seventh point of the Ohrid Agreement.

I consider that much more serious is the Ohrid Agreement than that of 2013, which has been ratified in the assembly for reasons in 2015, we have determined by document that the constitution of association should be handled by the constitutional court, and when the constitutional court finds that the statute is in harmony with the constitution, then association can be made without a constitutional court's consideration and decision. Now it has not been envisioned, but only the quality of association has been changed from association to the management of the Serb community. What is the Serbian community's only management for me is unclear, whether it's some kind of autonomy or that association converted into management itself but more like some kind of autonomy of Serbian citizens in Kosovo than in an association or a community like in Zajednic like they have called Vetevendosje and is still practiced and the chairman of the assembly to always do so with this expression of non-communistence and association, because it has made you interdisabilly, thinks that the issue of the Serbian Church, which was seen before the seven Ohrid agreement, but are accepted as always being damaged in a manner of non-communication and the state, he feels.

Regarding Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's draft status for Association, the former LDK head says it was not Rama's duty, but Kurti's.

He says he cannot criticize the Albanian prime minister for draft status unless the government comes out with its own proposal.

I saw that document, but it wasn't us who said Mr. Rama's task has been to Prime Minister Kurti and the government Kurti, because international demands and the European Union have been the government must bring in a proposal on how the government sees the implementation of the Ohrid Agreement and 7 points of self-advancing and 10 to make implementation of the agreements, which were previously defined. If the government doesn't come up with a proposal of its own, then we can accuse Rama and criticize her, why Rama, I'm convinced Rama didn't turn his head around and it's not a document Rama has sat down and written... Rama, in addition to having handed over to the German-French, means he has not moved further and has left it to some European Union institutions. Therefore, I had seen the need for the government to do so, not Albania's prime minister, because reactions are also being created in poor opinion to Prime Minister Rama and Albania.”, he says.

Mustafa also talks about European Union measures towards Kosovo.

While assuming that Kosovo has been respected by the European Union, it raises the question that if the EU pulls out measures towards Kosovo, “will we be like the situation we were in before? ”

The problem is that sanctions have been applied to Kosovo for the first time, whether in participation in different international institutions, whether at different meetings or at other meetings besides the dialogue process, and now the question is that when Kosovo is going to remove these sanctions that the European Union has imposed, or why such sanctions occurred to the Kosovo Army, whether at different meetings, or at other meetings besides the process of dialogue, and now the question of when Kosovo is going to remove these sanctions that the European Union has put on it, or why the sanctions were to be taken against the Kosovo Army, which you banned in the military exercise of NATO, KFOR, however, only started what would happen to me if the international community were to attract or sanctions. In a situation in which the international community has not been noticing Kosovo, Kosovo has been respected by the European Union and the various institutions related to the European Union, if these shares are vulnerable or damaged then there is a question of how to violate them and I am convinced they will not be affected for a very long time at the level they have been in view of no matter what Vetevendosje or the parties that are in power now mean.<1>, he says.

Mustafa calls statements entirely wrong by Foreign Affairs Minister Donika Grovalla, who two weeks ago at the Dubrovnik Forum, has referred to the European Union as a “tyger of paper”.

He stresses that Kosovo cannot take any step without the EU.

“I think that the foreign minister's reactions have been totally wrong, that a foreign minister cannot express himself in such a form to institutions towards the European Union, that we now like something and don't like it from the European Union, that we may have an impression that they are supporting Serbia than Kosovo, that Serbia may have an impression that they are supporting Kosovo rather than Serbia, but we should be aware that no step can take without a European Union co-operation, and that we are not Kosovo who we know who the European Union will be in the European Union or the European Union... which will handle these issues with us, but we should respect these institutions and become one of the Union, because they don't make a choice anymore.