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Albin Kurti's statements about the report of Kosovo, the USA and Serbia have provoked strong reactions in Pristina. The Prime Minister has said that he does not expect the United States of America to see Serbia as he sees it, but added that they should not expect him to see Belgrade with their eyes either.
Kurti made these comments in an interview for "Public Square", moderated by the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania, Ditmir Bushati, while he was talking about relations with the USA.
"I have made one thing clear to everyone: I don't expect the US to see the official Belgrade through the eyes of Albin Kurti, but neither should they expect me to see the official Belgrade through the eyes of the US State Department." Kurt said.
"I was a prisoner of war, a political prisoner, I know dozens of people who were killed in the war and I knew them alive and I know the history above the average of Serbs and Albanians for the relations of the Albanian nation in general, with Serbia as a state in especially", he added.
Kurti emphasized that Serbia committed genocide in Kosovo while America witnessed these crimes.
"The US is a witness, not a victim. We are victims. The victim and the witness are not the same thing."
Therefore, he believes that he "knows Serbia better", and cannot have the same attitude or sensitivity towards it, as the State Department.
"This means that we must communicate, our relationship must be that of allies, friends and partners. However, this does not mean we are identical".
Kurti added that his ambitions for the Albanian nation are greater than those of Washington.
"My ambitions for Kosovo and for the Albanian nation are greater than those of Washington and Brussels", he emphasized, and continued "I believe that this is normal. Imagine if it were different".
But these statements of Kurti have raised his "pro-American" opponents to their feet.
The first to react was Ramush Haradinaj, chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), who, when he was in charge of the government, strongly clashed with the US over the 100% tax. Through a post on Facebook, he said that Albin Kurti speaks for himself and not for Kosovo.
"He has not represented the attitude of this people for a long time. You have to be very kind to say 'America should not wait for me to see Serbia through its eyes', wrote Haradinaj.
The eyes of America, emphasized the former prime minister, "were its pilots who saved a nation from extinction, oh woe!", referring to the intervention of NATO, which had bombed Serbia in 1999, because of the ethnic cleansing he was doing in Kosovo, and the biggest supporter of the bombing had been the USA.
The General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Vlora Çitaku, also had a reaction.
Through a post on Facebook, she has been harsh with Prime Minister Kurti, calling him "nihilist" and "cynical", and that he will remain without any results.
"Yes, Albin, America does not see Serbia through your eyes. This is understandable", she initially wrote, adding that "with your eyes you don't even see Kosovo"
That in your eyes, said Çitaku to Kurti, "Kosovo has been destroyed for two decades", while, according to her, "in the eyes of America, Kosovo has been liberated, independent, developed, built". /Pencil
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