Selimi: UNMIK, zero competences in Kosovo (RTKLive)
Kosovo’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Petrit Selimi, told Radio Kosova that Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci, during the United Nations Security Council meeting today will report on Kosovo’s successes and will require the closure of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). “Today the Deputy Prime Minister Hashim Thaci during the UNSC meeting will call on the UN not to spend money on its mission in Kosovo because the situation has improved, and that seven years after independence, Kosovo is governed by its legitimate institutions,” he said. Even though, according to him, Kosovo has to communicate with the UN. “Our current line of communication with the UN is through UNMIK, until this mission is transformed into something else,” he added. Selimi said that Thaci will report on the challenges that Kosovo has faced during this period, the establishment of special court and Kosovo’s application in UNESCO and other international organizations. Commenting on UNMIK’s competences in Kosovo, Selimi said that UNMIK has zero competences in Kosovo, including the north. “The northern part of Kosovo, after the Brussels Agreement is slowly integrating in the Kosovo institutions,” he said.