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Acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti also spoke about relations with the United States of America and the dialogue with Serbia in the next mandate.
The US suspended the strategic dialogue with Kosovo in September last year. Kurti says that all officials with responsibility in foreign policy are working intensively to lift the suspension of the strategic dialogue.
He emphasizes that they are in regular communication with the Embassy of the United States of America, in order to clarify all controversial issues. According to him, in this way, even in the diplomatic aspect, they have excellent relations.
"There has been a suspension of planning and preparations for the strategic dialogue. We, through our official state channels, all state officials who have responsibilities in foreign policy, are working intensively. We are in regular communication with the Embassy of the United States of America here in Pristina, so that we can clarify all those issues that are disputable and in this way, also in the diplomatic aspect, we can have excellent relations, just as we have in terms of defense and security, but I would also say in terms of development and energy, especially now that the compact program has been continued, through which we receive 202 million dollars in grant, not loan, grant, from the United States of America, from the Millennium Challenge Corporation, for batteries with a capacity of 170 megawatts, which can accumulate 340 megawatt-hours in two hours, since renewable energy will continue to be our focus based on the strategy, an additional 1,300 megawatts by 2031 , " he emphasizes in an interview for KosovaPress.
Kurti, whose party won over 50 percent in the December 28 elections, based on preliminary CEC results, insists that relations with the US will remain strong.
Regarding the dialogue with Serbia in the next mandate, Kurti says that they will again insist on signing the basic Brussels agreement and the Ohrid annex, agreed in 2023.
In addition, he says that in order to continue the dialogue, the terrorist leader Milan Radoićić must be surrendered to the security organs in Kosovo.
"We are for implementing them fully, but we have said that in order to have legal guarantees and an expression of goodwill, we must sign them. This has been rejected by Serbia, although the European Union, as a mediator, fully welcomes the Brussels Agreement and the Ohrid Implementation Annex. Now, in order to continue the dialogue, we must implement the agreements. But in order to continue the dialogue, of course, we need Milan Radoićić, the chief terrorist who killed our police sergeant, the hero of Kosovo, Afrim Bunjaku, to be handed over to the security authorities in Kosovo, since there is a 160-page indictment from the Special Prosecution, together with 44 other paramilitaries, who wanted to start a large-scale conflict in Banjska Zvečan, from which they hoped that Serbia's intervention could be provoked to annex northern Kosovo. They failed. They also failed with the subsequent blowing up of the canal Ibër-Lepenc, for whom there is also an indictment, and they will fail every time. Besides, the agreement on good, European neighborliness, based on the basic Brussels agreement and the Ohrid implementation annex, cannot move forward as long as Milan Radoićić, as we are talking about today, is closer to President Vučić than even his close protection , "he emphasizes.
Regarding membership in the Council of Europe, NATO, and even the European Union by the end of his third term, Kurti is more reserved, but says that Kosovo will fulfill all its obligations.
"Our goal is undoubtedly to join the Council of Europe. As Kosovo, we have fulfilled all our obligations. The very fact that we passed with 82 percent in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe shows that Kosovo has fulfilled its part. Now there are a few skeptical states left, which use their influence. Meanwhile, I believe that we are a state that will first join NATO and then the European Union. We will do everything we know and can to move forward as quickly as possible. But as for the European Union, first we need to receive the questionnaire from the European Commission, because we applied for membership three years ago, and at the same time we also need the status of a candidate country. Previously, we were the only country that did not have visa liberalization, this was done in the last mandate. Now we are the only country that does not have the status of a candidate country and this is what we need to do ," he emphasizes.
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