The incident at Skopje Airport where President Osmani was involved, what is known so far?

President Vjosa Osmani has been involved in an incident with security members at Skopje Airport, from which she planned to travel somewhere through the VIP Zone. According to the Presidency, Osman was provoked and tried to get the phone and luggage to check on the scanner. The Northern Macedonia Interior Ministry said the luggage, however, was scanned. Skopje Airport has made a reaction, not to mention the name of the President, saying they have to control each passenger. The MPJD has called this treatment disrespectful until they say they are collecting information from the Macedonian Embassy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

President Vjosa Osmani has faced an unprecedented situation yesterday at Skopje Airport. Bekim Kupina, Media Adviser at the presidency, has stated that the security of Skopje Airport has tried to get the president's personal phone, which Osman has not allowed.

According to Kupina, security has later physically attempted to push off the president and then have reacted to Kosovo police to pave the way.

We oppose international practices and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the security of Skopje Airport has attempted to get the president's personal phone. The president has not allowed such a thing, because it would be a serious offense. Despite the explanation of the rules that the President's team has informed the airport official, he has physically attempted to push the president by cerrast has been forced to react to the Kosovo Police to open the road to”, Cupine told Gazeta Express.

However, the Macedonian side has taken the president's personal hand bag.

This behaviour of the Macedonian airport official is contrary to any international practice, under which when state leaders travel, they are protected with diplomatic privileges and immunity. Contrary to these rules, the Macedonian side has taken the president's personal hand bag. Although this was against the rules, the President's team has allowed the president to enter the airport, namely, in the VIP hall, which was reserved with verbal marks of our Embassy, such as the practice of traveling heads of state. However, because of security, it was by no means allowed to turn in personal phone”, Cupina said.

Kupina said the security behaviour was unprecedented and there was nowhere else happening to President Osmani, except at Skopje Airport.

The arrogant and violent manner of Skopje Airport official is unprecedented and has never occurred on a trip to the president anywhere in the world, including in non-recognitional states. Clearly, in the case in question there was a tendency to provoke the delegation of the Republic of Kosovo and cause incident”.

He said the president has announced this diplomatic scandal caused by the Macedonian side by Parliament Speaker Africa Gashi, “, which he thanks for the assistance offered”.

Later, the president's cabinet has had to contact Slovenia because Skopje Airport has declared it has not allowed the commercial aircraft to leave for more than an hour, with the pretext that the Slovenian state is not allowing the launch. But that was denied by Slovenians.

“Ven is noted that after the President's entry into the plane, Skopje Airport has not allowed the commercial aircraft to leave for more than an hour, with the pretext that the Slovenian state is not allowing the launch, because it would not be ready for landing. The President's cabinet has contacted the Slovenian side who informed us that this absolutely is not true and that the plane could land at the scheduled time. The presidency considers any assault and irregular treatment in opposition to international conventions of top state officials as attacking the state of Kosovo itself. The Republic of Kosovo, never in its history, has dealt with President/Presidentship, Prime Minister or Ministers of Northern Macedonia, nor of any other country, nor will it ever allow such a thing”, Cupine told Gazeta Express.

In the case, the Northern Macedonia Interior Ministry was declared. They say one of President's security members has intervened in order for her to pass without a scanned telephone and hand luggage.

In response, one person from Gashi's security and two police officers has also reportedly begun threatening TAV workers.

“Today (01.08.24) around 10:00 at Skopje International Airport, as Kosovo's president was crossing border control, the moment she was asked to pass her phone through the scanner, a person from her security has left TAV's employee in order to pass it without a blank phone and hand luggage. But then the trunk turned and went through a scanner. After half an hour, a person came from the security of Parliament Speaker Gashi (cop) with two other people (cops) and began threatening TAV workers and asking who caused the problem to the president. At the same time, he also pushed a police officer working at the border. The Department for Internal Control, Criminal Investigations and Professional Standards has immediately been announced and measures are being taken to clarify the case in co-ordination with the PTHP for the QKK, after which the respective paraonents” will be handed over, said at Macedonia's MPB announcement.

The cabinet of the North Macedonian Parliament Speaker, Africa Gashi, has denied involvement of members of his personal security in the incident.

Their announcement said members of the Chief Parliamentary Gashi security team have only been present to calm the situation created by a misunderstanding between the security of Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani and airport security members.

“The personnel of the security of Chief Parliamentary Gashi, who are employed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, have intervened to calm the situation and instruct their colleagues on security procedures during the visit of V persons. IP.

In this case we point out that any reporting that suggests the opposite is biased”, the report says.

In the case last night in Pressing and Astrit Iseni, the deputy minister of Internal Affairs in northern Macedonia. He said they're waiting for the investigative bodies to come up with precise information.

The “employees at the MPB have appeared at the event are tracing the situation are in communication with the prosecutor who has been engaged. For short time investigators along with the prosecutor will do their job. It is best to expect investigators along with the prosecutor to give the final verdict”, Iseni said.

Skopje Airport was declared for the incident, but not to mention the name President. In their response, they said they have a legal obligation to conduct a security check on all passengers, luggage and goods at flights from Skopje International Airport and from Sveti Apostel Pavle Ohrid Airport, including passengers travelling through the V Hall. IP.

“Therefore, the Security Department of TAV Macedonia, under its competencies, has made standard control of the passenger's safety mentioned as well as its luggage, at the security checkpoint at the V Hall IP. We want to stress that aviation safety has not been threatened, because the event mentioned has occurred in the airport public space, that's in front of the VIP hall control point, from where passengers are from. V The IP, after being checked by security, is sent to the airport controlled area. We also want to stress that the VIP room is a separate building isolated from the main terminal building at Skopje Airport, which means it is completely false that the safety of the field has been violated”, declared by TAV.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora has reacted to the incident and to the president's undignified treatment.

MPJD has said that through the Kosovo Embassy in Skopje, it has started collecting information and that early in the evening it has requested official clarification from the North Macedonia Embassy in Pristina and the Northern Macedonia Foreign Affairs Ministry.

“MPJD will keep the public informed of further actions, clarifying this situation and ensuring that such incidents do not occur in the future in relation to our heads of state”, it was said in response.

According to university professor Blerim Latifi, North Macedonia is returning to its first time in 2001.

He has said that “demanded Ali Ahmeti's removal and is now reaping the fruits of the fool”.

Macedonia is returning to its pre- 2001. Even with the help of many Albanians. They had enough weight here and there except for Ali Ahmeti. Now reap the fruits of this lapidar fool and enjoy the humiliation once you cross Elez's Hani”, Latif said.

Dukagjin Gorani, said in Pressing that, according to the Presidency's statement, hints there has been a very big diplomatic incident.

Analyst Gorani on the show "Presing '%s' on T7 says such cases never happened to Kosovo before.

Although the President's spokesman cited the Slovenian “”, there has been some announcement of where the president has travelled.