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"The incident with President Vjosa Osmani in Skopje, carelessness of the authorities or provocation scenario"

2024-08-02 18:15:18Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"The incident with President Vjosa Osmani in Skopje, carelessness of the
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Carelessness of the Skopje Airport authorities or provocation - these are two possible scenarios for what happened to the President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, at the Skopje airport on August 1, Afrim Hoti, professor of Law, tells Radio Free Europe and International Relations at the University of Pristina. This, based on the information that has been made public so far.

The Presidency of Kosovo has accused the authorities of North Macedonia of violating international practices and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, saying that on August 1, President Vjosa Osmani's personal phone was attempted to be taken by a member of the airport security. Skopje (TAV). The political advisor of the president, Bekim Kupina, said that despite the fact that the diplomatic rules were made known to him, "he [security] tried to physically push the president, in which case the Kosovo Police was forced to react to open the way". The Macedonian authorities have rejected these accusations of the Kosovo Presidency, but said that they have started investigations into this case. The TAV company said that the security department, within its responsibilities, has carried out a standard security check. According to Hoti, the airport security "absolutely has no right" to behave as it did with President Osmani. He considers that if we talk about the scenario of negligence, then international law provides for apology.

Radio Free Europe: How do you see this incident that happened at Skopje Airport?

Afrim Hoti: Yes, in principle, at least based on the information that has been made public so far, I think there are two scenarios. The first scenario is negligence on the part of the Skopje Airport authorities. We take into account the fact that both in North Macedonia and Kosovo, as well as elsewhere, not all the staff working in key points have the proper preparation to understand the diplomatic privileges and immunities of public authorities.

In this regard, I think that the first scenario speaks of carelessness on the part of the staff.

Meanwhile, there is also the possibility of some other scenario that eventually talks about certain provocations, which are reliable in the current case due to the fact that we already have the Serbian element in the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia and that even such scenarios eventually they should not be excluded.

Radio Free Europe : Does airport security have the right to search personal belongings, such as a government official's phone?

Afrim Hoti: No, absolutely not right. The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities provides for ease of movement of public authorities, whether they are internal, i.e. internal bodies, where we are talking about the speaker of parliament, the foreign minister, the president of the country, as well as other diplomatic staff, there is no right to check their luggage, while if there is talk of eventual scanning, that is, that the diplomatic luggage, including the phone, to go through the security scanners, then anyway the standard procedure should be followed as for everyone else.

Radio Free Europe: Professor Hoti, how do you describe this incident, as carelessness or as a provocation, as a scenario of provocation?

Afrim Hoti: Well, to be honest, I don't have all the information, because there are two different variants and I can't take a certain position, because the certain position, without arguments, is also interpreted as speculation. But, I want to believe that we are talking about a carelessness of the Macedonian authorities to treat the president of a country. Even, including cases where her stay in third countries is incognito. Even if it was a private visit, the president enjoys all the privileges and the authorities should treat her as such.

Radio Free Europe: The Macedonian authorities say that they have started the investigation, but in some way, in some way, they have explained what happened. What should the Macedonian authorities do now?

Afrim Hoti: In order to achieve satisfaction, in particular if we are talking about the scenario of negligence, then international law provides for an apology, if we are eventually talking about negligence, yes even in certain cases, even if it was some closed or private provocation of a certain official then, normally that apology would be satisfactory to our authorities.

If we talk about a certain scenario, then normally taking measures against the official who made such a provocation would cause satisfaction for Kosovo./ REL


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