What Bujar Bukoshi said about Albin Kurt...

Bujar Bukoshi, the country's former Kosovo prime minister in exile and key politician, has died Tuesday at the age of 78. To separate him from life, high local and regional public figures have reacted, reminding him of him as a well- refined man and politician.

For Bukoshi, telegram condolences has been released by the country's president, Vjosa Osmani, but not by incumbent Prime Minister Albin Kurti.

In an interview in October 2022, Bukoshi had spoken about Kurt.

Albin Kurti's greatest enemy before victory is Albin Kurti, the one who did not recognise Republic and independence”, he had said.

The following interview:

Mr. Bukoshi, the Kosovo government is facing the international community's mounting pressure to reach a final agreement with Serbia. The hesitations are clear, as are the international community's warnings. Would you like to be in Albin Kurt's position right now?  

I don't know if I'd like to be in his position, because I've been out of all feeling at the political posts, but I know when we started this job, we've been on the other side of the barricade. It was us who prayed to the international community to open our doors, to wait for us, to hear us explain what Kosovo was and what our project and vision were.

In the late 1980s, Kosovo was an embarrassment to international diplomacy. She even tried to hear us. In the 1990s when we tried to impose ourselves on our political self-organization, we had a wall of indifference to grieve and break because of our resistance and, of course, because of Serbia's bloody crimes in the Balkans. Even today, I am overwhelmed by his sadness over our inadequacy at the time, but he also makes me proud to face those challenges.
Now it is easy to act as if we have the fate of the US or the European Union in the Balkans. But it's hard and wrong not to pray to do this to a country that's alive thanks to the West. In this respect, saying this, I think that Kosovo's prime minister should respect the history of its statehood and not behave as if Kosovo is a country that was established not two full years ago when it came to power. The story does not start from scratch every time someone becomes prime minister in this country. I know similar phenomena have had ahead of us, but to pretend today that this is the best government in the Balkans, is to dream in the sun, or make Mynhausen...

-Are you aware of the recent deal offer by the German side supported by the United States? 

- No, I'm not aware, but I can imagine it's one of those international community attempts to create climate confidence in signing a final agreement. What the Kosovo government has to do is strip off the populist demagogia and be transparent with the public by saying what's in favour and what Kosovo doesn't have in favor at this moment, so as “is crying and where the zarari”... Those who are currently in charge should not behave like people who are born just to win. They have to act like people who are fighting, and when you fight, you can get something. You may lose a battle, but you can lose the war.
Look at Serbia on the other side. He's got the opposite attitude. They scream and scream like you beat the dog, like “o style, we're done”, as if they're destroying it with the offered deal, or actually not so bad at that deal. But in the final, it manages the response and adapts to the agreement.
An elderly villager of mine, with no faculty, or master accomplished, told me: Don't trust my son to believe his escape that he failed even when he got under your belt and broke his neck, he screams and shouts “help me out of my shipkeeper”. Our politicians and rulers behave as if they were born to win not only over Serbia, but also over the European Union and the United States of America. That I extended my answer a bit...

)The fact that Kurt has an empty field from his strong opponents in The Hague affects the situation. ?  

Kurt does not have the battle with Albanians. It has with Serbia and herculian work to convince the international community. Albanians have given him a mandate to complete this job. He cannot abuse the fact that he has no strong opponents. His greatest enemy is now former Albin Kurti alone. One who did not recognise the Republic, independence, and international agreements in Kosovo. Now this Albin Kurti prime minister must kill “first Albin Kurtin the opposition and then think of how he defeats other opponents. And it's not that easy to kill yourself. And she wants some manhood.