The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, Enver Hoxhaj, hosted today a meeting with the recently appointed head of the Office of the Council of Europe in Pristina, Isabelle Galluci. Hoxha valued highly the constructive approach of the Office of the CoE in Pristina on significant projects and its assistance offered to Kosovo.  “Kosovo is interested to develop relations and benefit from  the Council of Europe expertize in order to improve its governing and respect the human rights in Kosovo,” Hoxhaj said.

Both Hoxhaj and Galluci assessed that CoE projects such as “Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey,” are a priority. This program allows Kosovo to increase capacities in the field of the rule of law, efficiency of the courts and to improve the situation of the jails through monitoring mechanisms of prevention of torture as well as increase of the quality of education by involving RAE community in education.