Go get the ball in front of Albin, not back: All reactions to the UN session you need to know

Prime Minister Albin Kurti represented the Republic of Kosovo at this meeting, but what are reactions and opinions regarding this session?

Former Kosovo Ambassador to Washington Mrs.Chitaku Vlora, calls this UN KS session Kosovo diplomatic ?

“instead of Kosovo's diplomatic focus being towards creating a new and positive political landscape after the terrorist attack in Banjska, with the basic lack of co-ordination with Kosovo's main allies (which provide us with arms and financing), we are acting as outright enemies, paranoidly hiding our actions.

The dinar represents less than 2% of Kosovo's economy. As a symbol of Serbia and parallel institutions must be removed, and no one is opposing Kurti on this issue, neither the opposition nor the Embassy, but his need for the crisis, for opposing the allies, for straining the situation, is showing greater than the national interest in Kosovo.

It is a shame that the dinar issue, but all other debates, instead of discussing between Kosovo and Washington, are now being discussed at the UN Security Council, where Russia is questioned. Diplomatic Mongol! Bad play by Kurti! Political misery!

In a later response, Citaku writes that at the UN KS, the word of Allied states matters.

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Listen to the U.S. Ambassador speech. And our allies.

The misery and madness that our government brought to this point.

The less the KSC speaks to us, the better the”, she writes, follows Periscope.

MP from the ranks of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Avdullah Hoti, has said that confronting the UN Security Council between Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, was unnecessary, counterproductive and harmful to Kosovo.

Hoti has said that last night was the first time the main allies criticised Kosovo in a Security Council discussion and that it proved that the lack of co-ordination of actions with them has implications for the country.

This Kurti Government tea does not serve Kosovo's Euro-Atlantic integration. It is a regret that Kosovo's righteous actions, which no ally opposes in the constitutional context, will be returned to us as boomerang because of the bad policy where every state action is subject to the ruling party's immediate electoral interest”, Hoti wrote.

Albania's Prime Minister, Edi Rama, has named it “pointless”, The UN Security Council meeting for the ban on the Serbian dinar in Kosovo, saying it is not the country for anything related to Kosovo.

According to Rama, solutions should be found on these issues under the facilitated dialogue by the European Union.

It was a meaningless session. The UN Security Council is clearly not the country for anything related to Kosovo. As two sovereign countries aiming for membership in the European Union, Kosovo and Serbia must fully focus on facilitated dialogue by the EU and focus on achieving a deal on financial circulation, postal service, double taxation and all other issues that ordinary citizens benefit from, ensuring a peaceful future for future generations”, has written Rama on the social network <2X<3>.

“Sustainable and consistent standing with them shows the sense of vision and state responsibility, while every case of standing alone on the road to full recognition dims the country's position in the public sphere of international relations” has written away Rama.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, doing unnecessary provocative actions, says Charles Kupchan, Professor at Georgetown University and former director of European affairs at the United States National Security Council.

I don't think this is in Kosovo's interest. If we return to 1999 and immediately after 2008, Serbia is seen as a problem, Serbia is seen as a life-saving country, causing trouble in northern Kosovo and refusing to engage in normalising relations”, says Cupchan in the interview given Radio Free Europe.

According to him, the two leaders -- Kurti and Serbia's president -- Aleksandar Vuciq -- have remained on past disputes instead of focusing on the future.

American Professor of John Hopkins University, Edward Joseph, in a long writing on his account at “X”, wrote about the session called by Serbia to Security Council. Jospeh has been critical of Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, saying that thanks to another uncoordinated action, he is being forced to go to the Security Council, instead of the international pressure focusing on Belgrade and the vote taken at the European Parliament for Serbian elections allegedly full of fraud.

 “Square, show everyone the difference between the way a democracy treats its minority citizens and a desperate autocracy to cling to power. Hit the ball ahead, Albin, not back”, ends Edward Joseph.

Kosovo, Serbia balk from positions for dinar

At the UN meeting, called by Serbia, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti defended the CEC's decision, which envisions only the euro being the currency for payment by preventing the use of the dinar. Meanwhile, Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, described this decision as “attack” on the Serb population in Kosovo.

Kurti said the BQC's regulation for cash operations, which went into effect on February 1st, does not prohibit the Serbian dinar, but makes the euro the only currency for payment.

He said that this decision, as well, does not prevent the Serbian government from providing financial support to Serbs in Kosovo.

“Any other suggestion is nothing but false propaganda aimed at promoting ethnic tensions”, Kurti said.

In the settlements where Serbs live in Kosovo, the Serbian dinar has circulated since the post-war. The Serbian state pays Kosovo Serbs through a parallel system of salaries, pensions, social aid, and other benefits.

During the first confrontation between Kurti and Vuciqi at the UN, the Serbian leader said that the BEC's decision is in the wake of several measures taken by Kosovo, for example, attacked the Serb population in Kosovo.

“The ultimate goal of which [the measures] are to eventually create unbearable living conditions and expel Serbs from [Kosovo's] ” territory, Vuciq said.

Kurti said the CEC has sent a letter to the People's Bank of Serbia, proposing an agreement. Kosovo Prime Minister insisted the decision on the dinar is not intended to harm any group of citizens, but, according to him, it protects all citizens of any ethnicity from organised crime, arms trafficking and money laundering.

According to Kurti, citizens in northern Kosovo are daily threatened by criminal groups that accept money smuggled mainly from the border with Serbia.

Our Serbian citizens face intimidation from criminal groups that dictate their actions from protests to voting. Disobedience results in violence, burning cars or threats from their family members. This has to stop. Belgrade should not be allowed to endlessly finance these criminals and terrorists in Kosovo with undeclared remittances of money, running freely and illegally to our country. This is the source of Belgrade's hysteria for this” banking regulation, Kurti said.

The Serbian president said that with the ban on the dinar in Kosovo, the functioning of key institutions for Serbs in Kosovo is impossible.

“With the decision to ban dinars payment transactions, the Pristina regime directly manages any functioning of all medical, educational, social, cultural, cultural and other institutions that enable Serbs to secure themselves and their families the basic provisions for education, to receive medical treatment, to buy drug”, Vuci said.

Both Vuciq and representatives of Russia and China ʹ allied states of Serbia accused Kosovo of ruling the dinar, but other decisions, as well as the closure of municipalities operating according to the Serbian system, are conducting “ethnic cleansing” against Serbs in Kosovo.

Russia, even, said there could be an explosion of a new conflict in the Western Balkans, as it drew parallels between the Palestinian situation in Gaza and Serbs in Kosovo.

“Ide that Kosovo is conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign or persecution against the Serb community is a lie”, Kurti responded to these accusations.

During the meeting, various countries, such as France, the United Kingdom, Slovenia, and the United States, call on the parties to refrain from unilateral actions that could increase tensions.

The United States' ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Grenfield, reiterated her state's demand that Kosovo suspend implementation of the CEC's decision.

The decision was taken without proper preparation or consultation with the local population. We once again demand that the implementation of the regulation be suspended until all procedures are undertaken in line with European standards and good governance practices, and that the population affected be well informed of the” process, she said.

Other American officials have earlier voiced concerns about the CEC regulation, with US Ambassador to Kosovo Jeff Hovenier, who has warned that if Pristina fails to listen to Washington's request, this could have an impact on the quality of partnership between the two states.

Ambassador Thomas-Grenfield called on Kosovo and Serbia not to take escalating action and return to dialogue.

“We call on Kosovo and Serbia to refrain from uncoordinated and escalating actions and urge them to return to the EU-brokered dialogue, which the US continues to strongly support”, she said.

The American ambassador also stopped at the September 24th attack on Zvecan Banjska, when an armed group of Serbs attacked the Kosovo Police, killing a police official. Three other Serb attackers were killed during the subsequent clashes.

Thomas-Grenfield cautioned Serbia that it has not yet held the persons involved in the attack, including Milan Radojevic, responsible for the attack.

“Four months have passed since the attack, and Serbia has not yet held those involved in planning and executing [the attack on Banjska] responsible. The self-declared leader of the attack is free in Serbia”, Thomas-Grenfield said.

As for Banjska, Vucic said Serbia has launched investigative procedures and that there will be charges against responsible persons.

Kosovo blames Serbia for this attack, which it considers a terrorist, and has also called for Serbia to extradite to Kosovo Radojchicin, who has been deputy chairman of the Serbian List ʹ the largest party of Serbs in Kosovo enjoying official Belgrade's support at the time of the attack, but who announced his resignation from this party on the day he claimed responsibility for the attack.