Government responds to QUINT, EU and O SBE on property in the North: Explorations are valued by legitimacy not by ethnicity

In a statement, the Government says that the statement in question wrongly states the actual situation and makes unequipped legal assessment in arguments.

The government of the Republic of Kosovo, with proposals from the Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Infrastructure, has begun the process of expropriating real estate in several municipalities of the Republic of Kosovo under the Law in force of Exploration, in order to build infrastructure projects. Such a goal, conveys the definition of the legitimate “target defined as such by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights in Strazburg. One such thing has been presented during meetings and discussions with international partners, who from the Kosovo government have sought respect for the initiated judicial procedures, prior to making the final decision on expropriation in Government”, it is said in response.

Although Kosovo laws allow the decision against the procedure initiated before the courts, the government, however, has expected court decision-making before continuing with the final decision.

The only “Constinct regarding the procedure for expropriation under the Strasburg jurisdiction is the height of compensation”.

The plaintiffs have exercised indictments against the preliminary decision to expropriate by claiming violation of the law in the procedure, while courts have found that the plaintiffs, except a small number of them, had no legitimacy in the procedure, since the same are not property owners who were subject to expropriation.

“In the final decision, the government has reflected court decisions and ruled out the properties of successful plaintiffs”.

The legislation in this case has been implemented as well as in all other cases of expropriation for public interest throughout Kosovo. We believe that all agree that before the law all regions of Kosovo should be treated equally and equally”, it says further.

Construction of infrastructure projects, including police stations, according to the Government, will help prevent violence, combat organised crime and corruption.

“These are legitimate and legitimate goals that contribute to strengthening law enforcement and, above all, the security of citizens who for a long time were subject to violence and terror of criminal gangs led by chief terrorist Milan Radojciq, also sanctioned by the United States Treasury and the United Kingdom”, the government notes.

As has been outlined by the Council of Europe's Eminent Lawyers Report, Kosovo has advanced legislation providing high protection of human rights and freedoms, especially those of communities not majority.

The dominant lawyers have found out: Kosovo's legal framework has been strongly influenced by the International Community and goes beyond international standards”.

Also, the Kosovo government expresses concern that the declaration refers to expropriation in some Kosovo municipalities as the Serbian majority “communal”.

The “communs in Kosovo have specific and relevant names and the government was not referred to as predominantly Albanian, Serbian, Turkish, etc. As this is not in line with the multiethnic character of the Kosovo constitution. Explorations should be assessed by legitimacy, human rights, and public interest, not by the ethnic affiliation of citizens”, it is said in the end.