Kurti: Although the draft of the ZSO Statute is 'incomparably more advanced', this does not mean that Kosovo is satisfied

Kurti repeated that he offered to sign the draft Statute of the ZSO only as "part of the package" and not as a separate document.

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Aljbin Kurti, Photo: Beta/AP
Aljbin Kurti, Photo: Beta/AP
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The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Aljbin Kurti, today in Peja assessed the Union of Serbian Municipalities (USO) draft proposed by the EU and the US as "incomparably more advanced", but added that this does not mean that Kosovo is satisfied with the contents of the draft.

He said that he had submitted Kosovo's objections to the latest draft of the ZSO Statute, but that he could not make them public "due to confidentiality".

"Due to the confidentiality of the draft, I cannot even talk about my remarks and criticisms. They are very important. I conveyed it to the European emissary through my deputy Besnik Bislimi on October 24, two days before our meeting in Brussels," he said.

"This is a completely different draft, incomparably more advanced, but that doesn't mean we are satisfied, that's why I also sent my remarks and criticisms," Kurti told reporters in Peja after visiting the National Judo Center, where the training of members of the Kosovo Security Forces was completed. .

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Kurti reiterated that he offered to sign the draft ZSO Statute only as "part of the package" and not as a separate document.

"We said that we agree to sign the package that includes the Basic Agreement, the Implementation Annex, as well as the draft on which we previously sent comments, but since we were told in Brussels that the normalization of relations is urgent, I agreed to sign with the signing and acceptance, but only as part of the package," Kurti said and added that he asked for Kosovo to receive the status of a candidate country for the EU and start the path to NATO admission.

European leaders, after the last high-level meeting in Brussels on October 26, publicly expressed the request that Kosovo start establishing the Association and that Serbia implement "de facto recognition".

Asked why he did not meet on Monday with the special representative of the European Union, Miroslav Lajčak, who was in Pristina, Kurti told reporters that he did not meet the request for a meeting because he had other obligations, but Besnik Bisljimi, who is in charge of the process, met with Lajčak. dialogue with Serbia.

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