The President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, stated today that the procedures for extending sovereignty in the north of Kosovo are legitimate and in accordance with the Constitution.
Osmani told Radio Free Europe that "the success and sustainability of those procedures depend on cooperation with allies."
"The situation in the north of Kosovo is very challenging, because according to the Agreement from 2013, which requires that all illegal structures be removed, they have been strengthened in this decade by (Serbian President, Aleksandar) Vučić, and have turned into mafia groups, which threaten security and sovereignty, but also the very lives of citizens in the north," Osmani pointed out in Prague, where she is participating in the GLOBSEC security forum.
She urged not to allow "any dark force, any country that has malicious intentions towards Kosovo and the region, to create a division" between Kosovo and its allies.
"This division, in the long term, costs Kosovo a lot. Kosovo has the possibility to be successful in expanding its sovereignty, together with its allies. More communication, consultation, more coordination is needed," she said.
Asked if high-ranking American officials, including the head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), had mentioned the deterioration of relations with the Kosovo government in meetings in recent days, she said that the United States was clear at every level that relations with the people of Kosovo and Kosovo as a very strong state.
"We have to find ways to strengthen the partnership, we have to find ways so that the debate in Kosovo is never about 'have we broken up with America or not?', but how to strengthen those relations, because that is only in the interest of Kosovo," she pointed out. Ottomans.
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