President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani said yesterday that there is agreement on part of the American proposal regarding the dinar and that it would be ideal to reach an agreement on this issue in Brussels on March 19th, within the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, at the level of the main negotiators.
During her visit to the municipality of Lipjan, Osmani said that it is positive “that the international community, led by the United States (U.S.), agrees that the dinar should not be in circulation in Kosovo”.
“With their help, we managed that from now on, those remittances, that financial aid that comes from Serbia, arrives in euros and not in dinars, and I believe that this solves a large part of the problems we faced in the past,” Osmani said.
When it comes to the second part of the proposal, she said that the Kosovo authorities are considering how to ensure that aid from Serbia for the Serbian community in Kosovo “does not go into the hands of persons who misused it, who are corrupt and who may have taken money in the name of citizens, and they used it for organized crime”.
“For that part, a plan is being made that will involve the Kosovo authorities,” Osmani stated.
She added that there is hope that an agreement on the second point will be reached very soon.
When asked by a journalist about the non-implementation of the agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, reached a year ago in Ohrid, Osmani said that the actions of the parties on the ground should be analyzed, “in order to reach a completely objective conclusion”.
“Serbia has violated this agreement dozens of times, which clearly instructs it not to violate the territorial integrity of Kosovo, to recognize the international subjectivity and principle of equality of parties, not to vote against Kosovo’s membership in international organizations, not to use violence in interstate relations and many, many other principles,” said Osmani.
She said that a plan is being made in Brussels for the implementation of the agreement, because so far there has not been a full agreement between the two sides, and that she, as the president, did not agree with the plan presented by the officials in Brussels, “because it was inadmissible for Serbia to have benefits at the beginning of the implementation of the plan, and Kosovo only at the end”.
“I am looking for equal treatment of the parties, so that the sequential implementation plan takes care of the fact that both Kosovo and Serbia implement their obligations in parallel, and not that one side receives all the benefits first and that Kosovo is considered at the very end,” Osmani concluded.
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