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(a year ago)Kosovo's chief negotiator in dialogue with Serbia, Besnik Bislim, has reacted to the Democratic League of Kosovo, saying it is wanting the state to be without institutions. The LDK had reacted Tuesday after its meeting in Brussels with Serbia's chief negotiator, Petar Petkovic, and EU minister for dialogue Peter Sorensen. LDK in [...]
The LDK had reacted Tuesday after its meeting in Brussels with Serbia's chief negotiator, Petar Petkovic, and EU minister for dialogue Peter Sorensen.
The LDK in communiqué had said that Bislimi has no legitimacy to participate as chief negotiator in talks with Serbia and that “does not enjoy any legitimate mandate to represent Kosovo's republic in dialogue with Serbia”.
And in a reaction Thursday, Bislimi said the mandate as deputy prime minister in office is legitimate and that it has not been appointed by incumbent Prime Minister Albin Kurtiu as “chief negotiator”.
The Republic of Kosovo has government. It is not “-ish-government”. For LDK institutionalists, it is strange how they want the state to be without institutions, how the state can function without government. I was neither appointed by Prime Minister Kurti as “chief negotiator”. The responsibility and title within the government, Kurti, is that of the first Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration, Development and Dialogue. As long as the government is in office, as deputy prime minister I have the pre-priced obligations and responsibility of this role, and I serve the country exactly according to the mandate and obligations I owe to the state, citizens and government, the same as for European integration, development and dialogue”, it is said in Bislim's response.
He has added that there are no new agreements or obligations stemming from Brussels. He said it is the existing ones that need to be implemented.
“Mandati as deputy prime minister in office is a legitimate, democratic, constitutional and legal mandate to lead the pillars of European integration, development and dialogue according to competencies. On what legal provisions and facts does this party rely on when it says that the responsibilities of the incumbent deputy prime minister are unlegitive and undemocratic, unconstitutional and illegal? This is more than the ignorance of LDK academic illiterates, it is a deliberate attempt to manipulate public opinion and misinterpret citizens. At the end of its communiqué, the LDK writes that the will of citizens expressed in elections should be respected and new institutions formed. To the first, the will of citizens is clear to all where the V Movement ON February 9th election winner! For the latter, the LDK is not participating in the vote to establish new institutions. The LDK is well-off when it comes to competencies, the legitimacy of the government's election to consider its not-so-far-off history (the declared anti-unconstitutional government in 2021), and as they speak of the process of dialogue to understand that in Brussels it is true that negotiations are serious and high state interest, not such as to lose documents in the city of”, it is said in response. /Periscopi/
