2 minutes agoWhen the time comes...”, Conjufca: Government to Propose Only an Association Bill
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)Kosovo Parliament Speaker Glauk Konjufca said the Kosovo government could propose a draft of its Association statute at a certain time and the same could take part in the draft proposed by the European Union. Konjufca said the EU draft should not be sent to the Constitutional Court for [...]
Konjufca said the EU draft should not be sent to the Constitutional Court for assessment. He said implementation of the Association Agreement could take place when the Ohrid Agreement is signed.
“The government at the moment the time will come will propose a draft itself and will also take part in this draft, so it is not a rejection, I don't think that such a draft should be sent to the Constitutional Court, according to the 2013 agreement, this issue is fully Kosovo's domestic and Lajcak himself said it is not at all a matter of negotiations against Kosovo and Serbia, and it is only an international obligation that means to be implemented when the time comes in this case under the government's signing of the Ohrid Agreement. No, he's got it, he's got it, he's got it, he's got it.
Konjufca, also last week, talked about association until he said that the EU is not competent to propose Kosovo draft - statute for forming association, but that he understands the American ambassador's request to submit it to the Constitutional Court.
About ten days after international envoys handed over the draft status parties in October last year, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said the document was written carefully, in line with the spirit of the Kosovo Constitution.
He also stressed that Kosovo's Constitutional Court will examine it.
But, at the end of December 2023, Kurti said Kosovo should be author of the statute and suggested that it be written on its own, in co-operation with his Minister for Communities and Kthim, Nenad Rassic, and with Local Power Management Minister Elbert Krasniqi.
That statement was a response to an EU special envoy's message for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, that the statute issue is Kosovo's internal issue.
The draft that surrendered to Kosovo and Serbia was drafted by the EU, as the parties initially accepted the Agreement on normalisation of relations, which was also proposed by the EU as mediator of dialogue.
Later, in January of this year, Kurti said the association of Serb majority municipalities “is not the top priority” for normalising relations with Serbia and that the statute issue should not be divided by the agreement.
