Kurte warns of Berlin solution for association and voting to allow co-existence for same-gender people

In his speech, Kurti called for Kosovo to become a member of the Council of Europe this year. Here he also cited Kosovo's pledges to meet the requirements it has been made to join this organisation.

For this to happen, two things must happen”, Kurti said, Express reported.

One of them is the Association for the Serb community, and the other is allowing the civil union between the same genders, the Civil Code, which has found support in the Kosovo Assembly so far.

He said he would personally create the parliamentary majority, calling on the opposition.

Allow me to give you an example. Kosovo will aim to soon become the second country in the Western Balkans, following our neighbours Montenegro, offering its citizens the right to civil unions of the same gender. We will work hard to get through this in the very near future. For this I will personally build a parliamentary majority and call for broad support from opposition parties. The government's meeting decision on the issue has already been taken”.

Kurti said it would also be because it requires that the European Court of Human Rights until the demand for Kosovo membership in the Council of Europe is under way.

We do this because it's a right, because it's a right, because it's in our constitution and because we know that the European Court of Human Rights has issued judgments demanding that this be done. We know there are places in the Council of Europe for a long time that have ignored the court for that. Kosovo will be different. That's how we want to inspire others”, Kurt said.

He also spoke of minorities in Kosovo, saying he would resolve “unresolved questions” with the Serb community as priority.

We will also resolve the unresolved issues facing our minorities, their rights and needs, including Kosovo's Serb minority, as priority. Even so, we are working with German members of Bundestag to describe new and major initiatives. My meetings here in Berlin for this have been very encouraging”

In his address, the Office of the Prime Minister reports that Kurti recalled that 75 years ago, in April 1949, two institutions were established that transformed European history: NATO and the Council of Europe, which he described as pillars of democratic peace in Europe.

He cited the experiences of Kosovo's citizens in the struggle for liberation and independence, which he said connection with these Western and democratic institutions was and since then support for escaping the horrors of time.

Stressing that Kosovo aspires and works for NATO membership and the European Union, Prime Minister Kurti said the first step towards joining European democracies is membership in the Council of Europe.

“75 years from the creation of the Council of Europe, 25 years since NATO, including Germany, went to war to protect and save Kosovo's citizens from the horrors of mass massacres, murders, rapes and deportations. 2024 is the right year for the last democracy in Europe that is not yet a member of the Council of Europe to join it”, Kurti said.

Next, he idled our country's commitment to democratic values and principles, rule of law, protection of human rights and attention to the needs of non-US communities.

He said that in these three years of governance, “we have testified that socio-economic development and democratic progress go hand in hand.

Kurti has called on German Kosovo friends to support him even in this final step of full membership in the Council of Europe, as the 47th member state.

Finally, he thanked Bundestag and the SPD for <x0 welcome, interest, support and key role in the democratisation of Europe and for continued assistance”.