In Albania, Prime Minister Edi Rama announced today that he has submitted to French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz a draft for the creation of an association of Serbian municipalities, drawn up, as he said, by top-level European and American experts.
Prime Minister Rama stated that it is a confidential document, which takes into account that the association is part of the organization of life in the Republic of Kosovo, addressing all the recommendations or conclusions of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo.
“Dje i kam përcjellë presidentit Macron dhe kancelarit Scholz, që janë dy kumbarët e propozimit franko-gjerman një draft të asociacionit, për të cilën kam vënë në dijeni edhe Presidentin e Këshillit Europian, Charles Michel, si dhe palën amerikane”, deklaroi kryeministri Rama, duke bërë të ditur se dokumenti është hartuar “nga ekspertë të nivelit më të lartë amerikan dhe europian prej kohësh”, pa shpjeguar se kur ka ndodhur, por duke theksuar se: “është bërë pikërisht në rast se do të vinte kjo ditë, kjo ditë kur palët dhe në këtë rast, për mua i pakuptueshëm është pozicioni i Kosovës dhe jo i Serbisë që e përsëris, bën atë që ka bërë dhe herë të tjera, palët nuk po merren dot vesh as se kush duhet ta shkruajë këtë tekst e jo më të merret vesh se çfarë duhet të ketë teksti”.
It also remains unclear whether it was the Albanian government that requested the drafting of this document, or whether it was offered to it. Mr. Rama said that the experts have made a contribution and that he has simply made this contribution turn into an opportunity for dialogue, stressing that he did not volunteer to make any agreement, "I simply undertook to contribute to the dialogue table through the godfathers of the process, who are the president of France and the chancellor of Germany. It is up to them to do what they want with this contribution because now it was ready to be done and now are the conditions to do it, seeing that instead of sitting at the table one leads the police to empty buildings, the other leads the army to sing songs on the borders with Kosovo".
Last week, Prime Minister Rama had a special meeting with French President Macron, during the Security Conference in Bratislava, where Mr. Macron spoke harshly to the Kosovo authorities, considering them responsible for the situation in the north.
A situation that, according to Prime Minister Rama, "is taking on the proportions of a political tragedy for the Republic of Kosovo", which he added, "as never before, is being universally blamed by all the strategic allies of the Albanian nation", whom he described as "lords of the house in Kosovo".
While describing the document provided by him as confidential and for which Prime Minister Albin Kurti was not consulted, Mr. Rama was content to explain that "I think that an association that is within the constitutional framework of Kosovo, that is in sync with all the expectations of the democratic community, which gives self-administration, self-management, whatever you call it, to those who make it up, without ever questioning the authority of the institutions of the Republic of Kosovo; that gives them the opportunity to do what they need to do for education and health and that definitely finds the approval of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo, is what Kosovo needs today", he underlined. /VOA