Arifi pronunciation: There's someone in the Presevo Valley who's called Kurt.

Presevo Mayor Shqirim Arifi accuses Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurtin of disrupting the political spectrum in the Presevo Valley.

He calls the chief executive's servile Ardita Sinan of Shaip Camber, adding that the same is trying to rule in these municipalities.

Even, Arifi says they have been betrayed in dialogue, since the Ohrid Agreement does not envision reciprocity with Serbia.

In the interview for Kosova Preress speaks even of the three million separate from the government, the aggression in Zvecan Banjska and Serbia's approach to the Presevo Valley Albanians.

Presevo Chairman Shqirim Arifi says that at none of the meetings Prime Minister Albin Kurti has held with representatives of the valley, he has not been invited.

“In the meetings he makes (Albin Kurti) in Pristina, I as chairman of the largest party, as Presevo chairman, never invite. I heard a statement one day that was publicly said that I was invited. I wasn't invited. Not only in this process of parliamentary elections, but in the last two years, I have not been invited. Rather, I have applied for meetings which were ignored by Kurti”, he says.

Moreover, Arifi accuses the prime minister of disrupting the political spectrum in the Presevo Valley.

“to shift his political power to the Presevo Valley and avenge Edi Rama, because what has unified us is the Tirana agreement, has interfered with his serviles- with Sinan and Camber, making Sinan a consultant once and then even lowering Camber to sync for parliamentary elections 2022.

And then he did it in Bujanoc, the former head of the Albanian National Council, a faithful adviser to Bislim. He has linked a party for Vetevendosje to the prime minister. And why did he do that? To trumpet, to destroy what we achieved in 2020. We've had unification, we're not divided in the Presevo Valley, we're being divided by someone in the Presevo Valley, named Kurti”, he claims.

Critically, the sum of three million euros, which is meant for the Presevo Valley. It even says that a corrupting scandal has occurred in last year's budget.

We've verified, there's evidence, there's evidence, there are documents, there's flow of money, there's exclusive beneficiaries, there's no benefit for the citizens of the Presevo Valley, there are exclusive beneficiaries, who are Camber and Sinan's, or Kurti. There's a subject that's in the Special Prosecution, which is under investigation, that has invited participants to all this local corruption scandal here to us. We have facts that have been misused”, Arifi points out.

Arifi says that Ardita Sinan's government has inherited some of the problems that have been legal and then faced in courts.

He says the tense situation in northern Kosovo has also affected the Valley, where no project has been funded by Serbia.

Serbia has continued discrimination, which we know for 30 years, is not something we do not know, and it is something tangible for Albanians of the Presevo Valley. We are second-class citizens in Serbia, we are not citizens of the same class.

They're still using insulting words against us on the parliamentary level, they recognize us as a community that has been at war with us here, and now they try without letup revenge. We have also had at least investments in Serbia this year 2023, because they have not financed with projects”, he declares.

Presevo's leader says that the equipment of addresses has continued even during 2023, where Albanians are deprived of their property and civil rights. Education of these discriminations, according to him, is missing from Pristina and official Tirana.

We see in Vetevendosje a approach that is more brutal, radical, which is more divisive and adaptable to its policies, which it uses even in northern Macedonia and has tried to use in Albania for elections and continues to use in Montenegro. You'll see it next year. Parliamentary elections are in northern Macedonia. You will see a activism of Vetevendosje and Albin Kurti and others in support of one part of the political spectrum and ignoring the rest of the political spectrum in northern Macedonia. She did this to us, had it as an experiment, because she is interested not in helping Albanians in the Presevo Valley, but was interested in transporting or revealing her ideology to this country and having influence. How? Forward and Sundo”, Arifi points out.

Presevo Mayor Shqirim Arifi seeks reciprocity in the agreement with Serbia, for which he considers that with the Ohrid Agreement, such a thing has been violated.

We've gone from association to self-management. In some form, which may be interpreted as autonomy. We are far from her, with reciprocity she has betrayed us. With Ohrid's admission, it has betrayed us Albanians in the Presevo Valley, which it has promised for years of reciprocity. We have nothing more to expect if the Ohrid Agreement is accepted by Kurti. So we don't expect anything from the dialogue in”, Arifi concludes.

It also speaks of the escapes of young people in the Valley as it boasts that between 400 and 500 young people have been employed within the year. /kp/