Citaku: This resolution should not separate us but unite us

Since their proposal was not approved to be placed first on the agenda, PDK representatives abandoned the Assembly session. Later, deputies Progress Gruda and Vlora Citaku issued media statements in the institution's lobby.

Citaku said this resolution would have to unite all political parties.

According to her, it is part of a broader approach that presents Kosovo as a failed state and the struggle for independence as unsuccessful, stressing that such an approach is reflected in the processes held at the Special Court in The Hague.

In essence, this resolution would not have to separate us but unite us. We have requested a resolution on the protection of historical truth and war victims in Kosovo. We've requested that the resolution in question impose institutions to protect fair and dignified warfare. We distributed the text to the parliamentary groups and filed it yesterday. We have received the remarks and proposals from the LDK, but the VV, although it has not provided any written proposals, today demanded that this issue be addressed at the end as the starting point of the agenda. We as MPs have no work more important than adopting this resolution”.

The long-standing “, what we've seen in Pristina squares in recent days, is the disproportion of a record that has now been imposed in our society: the relativism of war, the relativism of crime, and the effort to establish a balance of peace between the aggressor and the victim. This kind of norm enters into the framework of a broader nationalism, that Kosovo has been destroyed for 20 years now. All of these are pieces of the same mosaic that tend to present Kosovo as a failure and our struggle for independence as an unsuccessful effort. We have a similar reputation at the Special Court in The Hague. There are over 20 European countries that the issue of war victims has been dealt with by law”.

Meanwhile, MP Progress Gruda said not introducing the resolution in order of the day is not a procedural issue, but a political decision not to support it.

“Refusing the head of the Parliament to adopt it as a point of the agenda is not technical, is the position not to support the resolution. So it's a rejection of the resolution. The resolution has only one goal: to express the commitment of the Parliament and to take on obligations to build Kosovo truth”.

Gruda added that the contents of this resolution are similar to the practices of other states that have addressed such issues after the end of World War II.