“has started without permission”: M KRS reacts to Rama's George Bush Square

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports has reacted to Pristina's chairman, Progress Rama, as the latter has blamed the government that it is obstructing works in George Bush” Square.

From the ministry it is said that the Pristina municipality has started works in this area without obtaining permission from the responsible institutions.

Also, from this ministry, they have accused Pristina's first dezinformata, saying that instead of co-operating with the solution finding, it has been continued with intentional hiding of information, it broadcasts. Periscope.

Explaining Public Opinion

The Pristina municipality has acted contrary to the law when it started works in a protected area of cultural heritage, without obtaining permission from responsible institutions. Instead of co-operating to find solutions, they today continued with disinformation, deliberate secrecy of information, and manipulation of public opinion.

We get it again: the project on the “road George Bush” has started without the permission of the Kosovo Institute for Protection of Monuments a clear violation of the law that could bring serious consequences, including financial damage to the state budget, and this is not the only law that has been violated in the ministry's response.

In addition, the MKRS has said that only after the competent inspector has banned unauthorized works, the municipality has filed a request for equipment permission from the IKMM, even though this should be required first.

After competent inspectors have banned unauthorized works, the municipality has filed a request for equipment permission from the IKMM, even though they knew that this permit would have to be required in the first beginnings of project drafting, so that when the project is drafted and provided for execution, it contains all principles, rules and criteria of preservation and protection of cultural heritage.

The community decided to act illegally and apparently intentionally until it guided it into systemic problems. The MKRS, as it has made it public, is not meant to ban works but to control that projects meet the criteria and principles of preservation and protection of cultural heritage, added to the communiques.

Furthermore, the ministry has accused President Rama of hiding from citizens the fact that the project envisions local business near the entrance of the University of Pristina Rectorate building.

The project that the Community has delivered has received professional verdict from the competent institution, which has returned the subject with concrete recommendations on how that project should be harmonised with these conditions and criteria. Rather than sit down and ensure the implementation of recommendations, the municipality today chose to disinform public opinion again.

The mayor of the municipality, together with his director, showed today that they have chosen to be eventually separated from professional and legal obligations, in terms of the necessity of treating the capital as a centre where caring for cultural, historical and urban identity is first dominated as legal duty and then as a professional and cultural standard.

They today did not tell the truth when they said interventions are limited to asphalt and the infrastructure of the Aztec tubes. They hid citizens from the fact that the project envisions local business near the entrance of the University of Pristina Rectorate building, assets with legal status of defence that would block and negatively influence the visual framework of the monument from the central part of the space around citizens -- a standard that does not dare be exceeded in any case under the Law for Cultural Heritage.

Also, from this minister it has been hinted that the explanations given at the conference today are completely untrue and unprofessive interpretations of the legal regulation of defence status.

 The Strategic Planning Director spoke of how the IKMM and other MKRS institutions are being called into the draft of the Pristina Historical Planning Centre's plan (QHP), as an unapproached document but somewhat “harton” mentions the fact that concrete space is part of the QHP protection zone, protected cultural heritage assets, category: architectural heritage, subcategoria: the area of architecture, has the first approval of a former political subject, and also the capital's space that it also has the status of some specific monuments.

Their explanations at the conference are completely untrue and unprofessive interpretations of the legal regulation of defence status, the MKRS has said.

The ministry, it has called on the municipality to continue breaking the law, and justice institutions to address the ministry's statements to the heavy exchanges of Pristina municipality.

) ) The MKRS invites the capital's bodies not to continue violating the law because in any case, the institutions of the state administration responsible for implementing the Law for Heritage, as such actions, will continue to appear in the law bodies because the facts, the documents are all there, and they speak of abuse and systematic violation of the law on the part of the Pristina municipality.

Again, we call on the institutions of justice to address with priority our statements to the serious violations of the Pristina municipality, and to prevent the deepening financial damage being inflicted on the state budget, the ministry has concluded.

Otherwise, Rama at the conference today, the central government has stopped working on a project aimed at transforming this space into the service of citizens.

For the second time, the central government has stopped working on a project aimed at transforming this space into the service of citizens. Reasons for this intervention are groundless and illegal by institutions that should be independent and used for political purposes,” said Rama.