From the floor of the Assembly of Albania, Prime Minister Edi Rama clarified his request to NATO, regarding KFOR taking control in the north of Kosova.

While answering to concerns and accusations that this request would violate Kosova’s sovereignty, Rama said his statement requires KFOR to take absolute responsibility to control the north, which, according to him, the Kosova Forces cannot do.

KFOR is not an occupying army, said Rama, while emphasizing that even the EU itself has accepted that the number of current forces in the north of Kosova is not enough.

“My repeated request to NATO regards KFOR to take control of the north, where the border with Serbia has been turned for years into a torn net everything from where weapons and drugs enter, while the existing border control forces are insufficient. They confuse it with what I have expressed before. I am talking about the absolute responsibility that KFOR must take to control the north, which the Kosova forces cannot do. The issue that the KFOR forces are insufficient, has been expressed publically.

What kind of sovereignty was jeopardized in Kosova by adding NATO forces in the north? How should the current sovereignty be understood, at a time when in that area the conflict is ignited and extinguished according to the interests of the groups that are not only a mixture of Serbian ultra-nationalist politics with the dirt of organized crime, but also enjoy the support of the masses impoverished by the isolation of the inhabitants there who live with the alms of Belgrade, at a time when they do not recognize any sovereignty to the sovereign state of Kosova. They do not pay any tax to it, and they have not even paid any electricity bill since 1999. This does not seem to me a logical concern in respect to the sovereignty of Kosova, the guarantor of which is the presence of NATO. KFOR is not an invading army in Kosova, but the international liberation unit of Kosova,” stated the Albanian Prime Minister today in the Assembly of Albania.

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