PM Thaçi: Redefinition of borders is a very dangerous idea

Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi stated that the idea of the former Deputy Prime Minister Lutfi Haziri from LDK on the Redefinition of Borders between Kosovo and Serbia is dangerous and wrong. He also said at the Kosovo Assembly session yesterday that proposals to return to borders of 1956 have raised concerns among Kosovo’s international friends.

PM was surprised by the LDK for failing to publicly reject a statement by one of its leaders. “The division of Kosovo’s territory of Kosovo is very dangerous. Let me also express the concern of the Government for such surprising ideas which are in contravention to the Constitution of Kosovo and its laws, and at the same time I also express the concern of our international friends about ideas which are in contravention with the position of the Kosovo Assembly, the Government and all institutions of the Republic of Kosovo, in contravention with the will of the citizens of the Republic of Kosovo and international documents about Kosovo,” PM Thaçi said.

This important and other important issues for the state PM state that the Assembly must decide, but also recalled that the current Government would never allow the territory of the republic of Kosovo to be violated.

Member of the Parliament and former Interior Deputy Minister Fatmir Xhelili as saying that integrated border management is not a mechanism that solves border problems, “but with the current situation in the northern part of Kosovo, this mechanism can be a starting point for practical and political cooperation between Kosovo and Serbia”.

Xhelili, who was also head of the working group that drafted all documents and policies related to the integrated management of borders, also said that in discussions with Serbia and the EU in Brussels, the red lines should be the non-contesting of border crossing points and the border line.

While German Ambassador to Kosovo, Ernst Reichel, said Germany expects Serbia to give reliable evidence by December 9^th that it will implement a constructive approach toward its neighbors. Good neighborly relations, Ernst added, implies dissolving parallel structures in the northern part of Kosovo.

“We must be convinced that agreements which have been reached are being implemented. Time is short, the meeting of the Council of Ministers will take place on December 9^th, therefore we need as much as trust as possible, not only for new agreements but also for the implementation of agreements that have already been reached,” Reichel was quoted as saying.