Mustafa: Neither withdrawal of signature, nor referendum or ratification (dailies)

The Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa, held a press conference at the government building after his return to the United States of America. He has expressed his readiness to report again to the Assembly of Kosovo on the reached agreements with Belgrade, however he rejected any meeting with the leaders of the political parties where withdrawal of his signature would be requested. “We cannot hold a meeting for withdrawal of the signature, because the signature cannot be removed, because it is an international agreement and it is a Law. It is the Law on ratification of the first agreement, as an international agreement. It is our obligation to implement it. Now it is another issue whether such Law should have been endorsed,” Mustafa said. “A referendum cannot pass either because the process of the dialogue has started and it has moved too far.”

“So the Agreement was ratified at the Assembly and we are not dealing now with special agreements that should undergo the process of ratification again or to give additional power or a new law to the technical issues related to the Association or the main principals for the establishment of the Association,” Mustafa said. He stated that he is ready to argument the reached agreements to the opposition, however he stressed that conditioning would not be accepted.

Viets: Violence is unacceptable (Koha Ditore)

The German Ambassador to Kosovo, Angelika Viets, said in an interview for this daily that violence at the Assembly is unacceptable. “I do not see any institutional crisis. We have an opposition which is not sticking to the rules of the game in politics and which is not complying with the obligations that it took over in politics. Violence is not accepted. Throwing of different things is in contradiction with the Regulation of the work of the Assembly of Kosovo. We want to see a democratic confrontation at democratic institutions… So, what is happening now is being pushed only by one part of the opposition because it is not as if the entire opposition is radical. Those who are more radical are definitely strengthening the government, because the population understands that it would not want to be governed from such a group with anarchic points of view,” Viets said.

The Prime Minister takes back his plan for the army (Koha Ditore)

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, has withdrawn from his determination to change the governing approach towards the transformation of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) into the army of Kosovo, as he has stated after failing to convince the Serb governing partners to vote the Constitutional changes. He was told in New York about the conditions of creating the army. “Now, the conditions that we have to fulfill for this transformation are known. The constitutional changes have to be voted by the double two thirds of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo. So, we do not need only two thirds from the total number of the deputies, but also two thirds of the minorities that are at the Assembly,” Mustafa said. “I have discussed the issue at the beginning of this year also with the NATO Secretary General at NATO Headquarters, and I was clearly told that they support the transformation, but that this transformation cannot be done by endangering internal consent.”

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Tahiri: Signatures will not be withdrawn (Epoka e Re)

Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, told this daily that there would be no withdrawal of the signatures on the agreements reached with Serbia through dialogue in Brussels. She said that there is not a single political or judicial reason for this. She assessed that opposition’s behavior is related to the engagement to take over the power, however, according to her, change of the government can be reached only through free and democratic elections.

PM Rama requests from Serbia to recognize Kosovo (dailies)

Albania’s Prime Minister, Edi Rama, held on Friday a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, where he made a reflection of the situation in Albania and the Balkans. “Balkans has entered a peace process, and we appeal to the countries that have not recognized Kosovo, to do so. Recognition of Kosovo will be good also for Serbia itself,” Rama said. He informed that this was the focus of his visit to Belgrade last year. “We should learn from the past and leave it behind our backs, no matter the color, faith or race. Let us get together to start the development process, by putting in the first plan the future of our children,” he said.