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Kurti against Rama’s stance on demarcation with Montenegro (Koha)

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Vetevendosje MP Albin Kurti has opposed today the position of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on the border demarcation between Kosovo and Montenegro. At a joint press conference in Tirana with Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on Wednesday, Rama suggested that Haradinaj should no longer as a member of the opposition and distance himself from his earlier position against the border demarcation agreement. Kurti however reminded Rama of the six agreements, the memorandum and the seven concrete tasks from the meeting of the governments of Kosovo and Albania in June 2016. Kurti wrote: “The agreements included important areas in drafting joint policies, the economy and trade, the energy, infrastructure, education, culture and environment. The timelines for these tasks made the agreements very concrete. Many of the tasks were planned to be implemented within two months,” Kurti posted on Facebook. “But where are we now, more than a year later, with the agreements? No one was held accountable for failing to respect the timelines or for slowing down to a halt the implementation of agreements and tasks. Reality meanwhile requires a completely different pace: timelines, responsibilities, morale and readiness to work. We have welcomed the new government led by the Socialist Party and Mr. Edi Rama, because we hoped that this government would engage in creating a joint market of goods and services, a unified energy market, a coordinated and unified foreign policy, closer cooperation in the security sector, and further cooperation from education to healthcare, from culture to sports. However, while progress in this respect is very slow, we heard that Mr. Rama is asking Mr. Haradinaj, the current Prime Minister of Kosovo, to change his position on demarcation with Montenegro. Mr. Rama is therefore is asking to support an unjust agreement that takes away 8,000 hectares of Kosovo’s territory despite evidences in maps, official documents, professional experts and a massive petition. With its 32 MPs, the Vetevendosje Movement is the biggest party in Kosovo and in the Assembly. We will deal with the border demarcation agreement between Kosovo and Montenegro in a merited way. We expect our Prime Minister, Edi Rama, to engage in the implementation of agreements between Albania and Kosovo. We also expect him to further social democracy and the unification of the nation. We have no time to lose and no land to give away”.

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