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[00:00:20] In Pristina, a new institutional crisis is on the horizon. The question is how
[00:00:23] long Albin Kurti will rule, the one who rules
[00:00:27] in Belgrade, in a big campaign, and Kosovo is no longer a topic that seeks
[00:00:30] kampanji, a Kosovo više nije tema kojom se traže
[00:00:34] votes. In the north of Kosovo, the search for
[00:00:37] missing persons, believed to have been killed
[00:00:40] in the 90s. Houses are being demolished next to
[00:00:46] N1
[00:00:47] live.
[00:00:55] Today, the constitution of the Kosovo Assembly was again interrupted,
[00:00:59] after... after the acting Prime Minister Albin
[00:01:02] Kurti requested additional time for
[00:01:05] an agreement on the election of the Parliament Speaker.
[00:01:08] Kurti warns that if an agreement is not
[00:01:11] reached, Kosovo risks going to new elections, while
[00:01:15] the opposition accuses the government of delaying the process
[00:01:19] and deepening the institutional crisis.
[00:01:22] More details are brought to you by our Zana
[00:01:24] Cimil. The session at which the full constitution of the Assembly of
[00:01:28] Kosovo was expected ended with the swearing-in of new deputies,
[00:01:32] however, this session
[00:01:35] was interrupted after the acting Prime Minister, Albin Kurti
[00:01:39] requested additional time for the continuation of talks with
[00:01:42] parliamentary parties on the election
[00:01:45] of the president.
[00:01:49] We need the broadest possible agreement on a president who will
[00:01:52] unite, as required by the Constitution to which we
[00:01:56] swore today. The constitution of this convocation of the
[00:01:59] assembly must not again lead to the dissolution of the assembly
[00:02:02] and new early elections which are unnecessary for citizens and harmful to
[00:02:06] the economy. Therefore, honorable chairman, ladies and gentlemen,
[00:02:09] deputies, we ask for additional time to give a chance to
[00:02:13] political talks to reach an agreement on a new
[00:02:16] president or a new president.
[00:02:19] Self-determination has been conducting negotiations in recent days with the Democratic Alliance of
[00:02:23] demokratskim savezom
[00:02:25] not asking that by chance, given Kosovo with which progress has been made regarding a possible joint
[00:02:28] coalition. However, an agreement was not reached on the key
[00:02:32] issue of the position of the President of Kosovo, which is demanded by the
[00:02:35] Democratic Alliance of Kosovo. Kurti assessed
[00:02:38] that only after reaching an agreement on the election of the president
[00:02:42] should the formation of other institutions be approached. In
[00:02:46] the opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo, the request to interrupt
[00:02:49] the session is seen as a continuation, as they state,
[00:02:51] of the irresponsible behavior of self-determination. By the way,
[00:02:54] connoisseurs of the constitution and civil society warn that the
[00:02:57] absence of a political agreement cannot be a reason for
[00:03:01] blocking the work of the assembly and violating the constitutional
[00:03:04] order, they remind that the Constitutional Court has clearly
[00:03:07] defined the obligation of deputies to constitute
[00:03:11] the Kosovo Assembly within 30 days, which
[00:03:14] expires tomorrow. By the way, the extraordinary elections
[00:03:18] held at the beginning of June were a consequence of the previous
[00:03:21] failure to reach an agreement on the election of the President of
[00:03:24] Kosovo, for which Self-determination does not have
[00:03:27] enough votes according to the Constitution of Kosovo, the president is elected
[00:03:31] in the first two rounds by a two-thirds majority,
[00:03:34] i.e. with 81 votes of deputies, while in
[00:03:38] the third round a simple majority
[00:03:41] of 61 votes is needed. However, a key condition for
[00:03:44] a successful election of the president is a quorum of 80
[00:03:48] deputies in the first two rounds of voting, which further
[00:03:51] complicates the process if there is not
[00:03:54] sufficient political agreement. Zana
[00:03:57] Cimil, N1, Pristina.
[00:04:02] The President of Serbia now says only a Our guests are Dragiša Mijačić, coordinator of the working group for chapter
[00:04:05] 35 of the National Convention on the European Union, who is with us in
[00:04:09] the studio in Belgrade, and Ilir Deda, senior associate of
[00:04:12] the Kipred Institute who is with us live
[00:04:16] from Pristina. Ilir, let's
[00:04:19] start from Pristina, we saw what
[00:04:23] today's session of the Kosovo Assembly looked like, if I were to ask that one
[00:04:26] journalistic question, so to speak. There are many topics
[00:04:30] that we will discuss tonight, what is perhaps the most important news
[00:04:34] from
[00:04:44] be that this did not happen.
[00:04:47] For 18 months, we have been
[00:04:51] victims of political games,
[00:04:55] lack of uh, elementary will
[00:04:59] for uh... compromise and consensus between
[00:05:02] key political parties in
[00:05:04] Kosovo,
[00:05:07] and it would be strange if
[00:05:09] today
[00:05:11] uh that we had a president or speaker
[00:05:14] of parliament today, if it was known today whether there would be
[00:05:17] a joint government of the Self-determination Movement and the Democratic
[00:05:21] League of Kosovo, whether they had reached a principled
[00:05:25] agreement on the figure who would be the future president or
[00:05:29] future president of Kosovo, but since that did not happen, it can be freely
[00:05:32] said from Pristina, nothing new, who
[00:05:36] is responsible for this situation, can it be said who is responsible,
[00:05:40] we know that there were, there were agreements between the Self-determination Movement
[00:05:43] and the Democratic League of Kosovo,
[00:05:47] no agreement was reached, is there
[00:05:50] a culprit?
[00:05:54] uh, well, I think there is still time,
[00:05:57] legally, until midnight tomorrow, the
[00:06:01] assembly should be constituted, so as far as that is concerned, we have
[00:06:04] time, what must not
[00:06:08] happen is that it does not
[00:06:11] happen, because then... then 120
[00:06:14] deputies consciously
[00:06:17] uh uh uh go to
[00:06:21] trample uh the constitutional decision of the Constitutional
[00:06:24] Court, uh in English it is called
[00:06:27] gross violation of
[00:06:29] constitution,
[00:06:32] uh so uh uh I think that now
[00:06:35] the political temperature is quite
[00:06:38] high, actually we need to see
[00:06:41] if... However, we are all waiting and talking to
[00:06:45] contacts in the parties whether there will be a session tomorrow whenever
[00:06:49] and whether at all
[00:06:52] Self-determination and LDK can agree
[00:06:56] on
[00:06:58] on the president of Kosovo. LDK demands that that
[00:07:02] position belong to them and
[00:07:06] Kurti says that it should be a
[00:07:14] "Citizens, of course, suffer,
[00:07:16] I believe that a
[00:07:20] climate is slowly being created in which all
[00:07:23] political actors uh bear
[00:07:26] responsibility uh for this
[00:07:29] deepening political crisis -
[00:07:32] now the same question for Dragiša, uh, I'm
[00:07:38] that we will talk about more topics, uh, what is
[00:07:41] for you, uh," the main news from
[00:07:44] Kosovo, well, today, in my opinion,
[00:07:47] the most important news regarding the constitution of institutions is that
[00:07:50] Kurti once again carried out a coup d'état
[00:07:53] in Kosovo, almost, he once again violated
[00:07:56] the constitution with this statement of his,
[00:07:59] asking uh
[00:08:03] constitution of the Kosovo parliament to be postponed, that will especially happen
[00:08:07] if it is not constituted by tomorrow, as Mr.
[00:08:10] Dedaj has already explained, "I say this because
[00:08:13] Mr. Kurti has already tried several
[00:08:17] times by violating the constitution,
[00:08:21] by not harmonizing institutions, by not constituting institutions, to
[00:08:24] change the constitutional order in Kosovo,
[00:08:27] and he has announced that new elections will take place, and this
[00:08:31] is precisely in that
[00:08:33] direction, seeking possibilities for
[00:08:37] changing the constitution and seeking possibilities for electing
[00:08:40] a president in a different way. This is now a question of
[00:08:44] the constitution of the parliament, it is not a question of the election of
[00:08:48] either the government or the president of Kosovo. It certainly
[00:08:51] has a causal, consequential connection, but in principle,
[00:08:55] the parliament must first be constituted, and then the process of electing
[00:08:57] the government should begin, and the process for
[00:09:01] electing the president of Kosovo is underway. He has put
[00:09:04] everything on one card, everything
[00:09:07] at this moment is left to achieving a
[00:09:11] coalition agreement with the LDK in a way
[00:09:14] that suits him, so it is very likely that if no such agreement is reached
[00:09:18] that we will have elections again and
[00:09:21] not that the institutions will be constituted. At this moment, it must be said
[00:09:25] that in Kosovo there is a technical government, there is
[00:09:29] a parliament in a technical mandate and there is a technical and
[00:09:32] there is an acting president of Kosovo who is
[00:09:36] performed by a person who is the president
[00:09:39] of the parliament in a technical mandate, i.e. of the dissolved parliament. So, at this
[00:09:43] moment we do not have a single Kosovar institution that is functional,
[00:09:47] but we have quite clear decisions made by Mr.
[00:09:50] Kurti, especially these days, who we see is almost in a new election
[00:09:54] campaign, especially in the north of Kosovo, and from there we can
[00:09:57] expect very much that new
[00:10:00] elections will take place. Does that suit him? The question I asked at the
[00:10:04] beginning is how long will Kurti rule, so as long as
[00:10:08] this institutional crisis lasts, he carries out activities
[00:10:11] as prime minister. In a technical mandate, who is
[00:10:15] actually the biggest winner or who is the biggest loser of this current
[00:10:19] situation? Well, you see, here the biggest loser is uh the Kosovar
[00:10:22] people, whether they are Albanians or... Serbs, all others living in
[00:10:26] Kosovo due to the non-formation of institutions, that is completely clear to everyone,
[00:10:30] uh, Kosovo suffers great consequences on the external
[00:10:33] and internal level, but these consequences are not reflected in
[00:10:37] the election results. Kurti still has quite
[00:10:41] good election results, I would not say that everyone is to blame in this situation,
[00:10:44] in this situation, especially now, it is
[00:10:47] a question of, above all, self-determination, somewhat
[00:10:50] and and uh LDK which participates
[00:10:53] in these uh uh... uh talks about a possible
[00:10:56] coalition, but other political entities certainly cannot be blamed
[00:11:00] for this situation or for the previous ones, so
[00:11:04] uh, unfortunately in that context, uh there is
[00:11:07] a crisis, but again I say even if there are
[00:11:10] elections, I don't believe that there will be a different
[00:11:14] election result than what we have seen in the previous few times,
[00:11:18] what you said is that the core
[00:11:21] of Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti's campaign is the North of Kosovo before.
[00:11:25] We continue the conversation, we will watch a report, namely, in the municipality of Zubin
[00:11:28] Potok in the north of Kosovo, 17 buildings have been demolished so far
[00:11:32] next to Lake Gazivode, this was done at the order
[00:11:36] of the Ibar Lepenac company, among the demolished buildings
[00:11:39] is the Jezero motel next to which was
[00:11:43] the most popular bathing area next to Lake
[00:11:46] Gazivode, that's not the end, Pristina
[00:11:49] announces new
[00:12:17] On the same day, one viewpoint was demolished,
[00:12:20] the one overlooking Lake Gazivode in the municipality of Zubin
[00:12:23] Potok. Hotels and Jezero beach, which was built with the support
[00:12:27] of the European Union, no longer exist. I just heard
[00:12:31] a crash and running in the stairs with long barrels,
[00:12:34] special forces burst in
[00:12:37] with long barrels towards us, they told us to leave the
[00:12:41] building immediately. The demolition was carried out at the request of the Ibar Lepenac company, which
[00:12:45] claims to be the owner of the property. The owners of the buildings state that they did not
[00:12:48] expect bulldozers because a court process is underway. So far,
[00:12:51] 17 buildings have been demolished near Lake Gazivode in the north of
[00:12:55] Kosovo. The owners have now received two documents from
[00:12:58] the Inspectorate of the Ministry of Environment, one of which is a fine
[00:13:01] of 2 Euros. The other is a decision on the removal
[00:13:05] of buildings. Both are obtained
[00:13:09] due to construction in a protected area, and
[00:13:12] the area is, as we know, protected since the end of
[00:13:16] 2025. So a lot, because
[00:13:19] the last of those cottages
[00:13:22] were built. The deadline for paying the fine is 30 days. There is a possibility
[00:13:25] of an appeal, which Nenezić says he will use. Suddenly,
[00:13:29] the Inspectorate of the Ministry of Environment appears in the story,
[00:13:32] the only letters so far, he says, have come from the company
[00:13:36] Ibar Lepanac. Now they are somehow
[00:13:39] trying to mask that quasi-procedure that
[00:13:43] Iber Lepenac led with some procedure that that inspectorate leads
[00:13:47] which appeared for the first time, since everything is already demolished, which is
[00:13:50] quite problematic legally and generally, I mean,
[00:13:54] in life. uh, so in principle
[00:13:57] they tried to cover up a
[00:14:01] mess, a blunder,
[00:14:04] they only made an even bigger, bigger
[00:14:08] problem. Gazivoda was visited in recent days by
[00:14:12] the acting Prime Minister of Kosovo Albin Kurti, accompanied by
[00:14:15] officials, among whom was Minister Nenad Rašić.
[00:14:18] Comment on the strong reactions to the demolitions at Lake Gazivode by the European Union and
[00:14:22] some foreign embassies.
[00:14:27] few words about the events in Kosovo,
[00:14:30] no one's , not even these who terrorize our people in
[00:14:34] Kosovo, did not burn until dawn. And once he held extraordinary
[00:14:38] conferences, gave promises, one
[00:14:41] repeated several times referred to
[00:14:44] Gazivode. I won't give up Gazivode, and I say it
[00:14:47] openly, I won't give it up, I won't give you 100% of
[00:14:50] Gazivode, I won't give it to you, dismiss me tomorrow, I won't give it. I won't
[00:14:53] because you haven't explained on what principle I should give you
[00:14:57] Gazivode, here, I won't give it, I don't want to talk about
[00:15:01] that,
[00:15:03] we have Gazivode which contain 75% of our republic's
[00:15:07] water reserves and which we will never, under any circumstances,
[00:15:11] or at any cost, share because it is ours, we do not
[00:15:14] share it with anyone because it is the property of the Republic of
[00:15:16] Kosovo. The European Union and several foreign
[00:15:20] embassies in Kosovo have called for the demolition at Gazivode to be stopped, but
[00:15:24] the Kosovar authorities have so far ignored it. Ibar Lepenac
[00:15:28] continued to deliver letters to property owners to
[00:15:31] leave them.
[00:15:35] Let's go back to Pristina. Ilir Deda, former
[00:15:39] associate of Kipred, Ilir,
[00:15:42] how much of a topic is the North of
[00:15:45] Kosovo in Pristina, and we spoke earlier about the institutional crisis, about potentially
[00:15:49] new elections, is the North of Kosovo something
[00:15:52] on which Kurti really gains
[00:15:55] votes,
[00:15:59] not on what is happening now,
[00:16:02] which is not a topic,
[00:16:05] uh, but several of us
[00:16:09] publicly criticize
[00:16:12] uh what is happening in
[00:16:15] the North because we think that in the name of the rule of
[00:16:18] law, the rule of law is suspended,
[00:16:21] uh uh the North has not been a topic for a long time in
[00:16:25] the way uh how
[00:16:29] je
[00:16:31] what implies what people
[00:16:34] up there think about what is happening? And it
[00:16:38] is finished as a topic, it seems to me
[00:16:41] uh
[00:16:45] uh uh with local elections
[00:16:47] in December and uh with the last local
[00:16:51] elections, the public media in Pristina does not
[00:16:55] follow the situation in
[00:16:58] the North, actually, it is not followed anymore,
[00:17:02] uh the discovery uh the suspicion of mass
[00:17:05] graves uh uh uh
[00:17:09] uh uh uh increased
[00:17:12] uh uh the public's focus more
[00:17:15] than it was, but what needs to be clearly stated is
[00:17:19] that the demolition of those 17 buildings
[00:17:22] was not done uh
[00:17:26] uh uh on the basic
[00:17:30] principle of the rule of law, while there is a court
[00:17:33] proceeding,
[00:17:36] no one's property cannot
[00:17:39] be demolished,
[00:17:41] but this is now being used, we see, by the
[00:17:45] authorities in Serbia politically because of your elections
[00:17:49] there, here uh not
[00:17:52] yet,
[00:17:55] and what worries me a lot is
[00:17:58] how people in the North actually
[00:18:02] feel, uh, and
[00:18:05] what political representatives of Serbs
[00:18:08] in Kosovo, what do they
[00:18:11] intend, what steps do they intend to take in
[00:18:15] connection with what is happening, uh
[00:18:18] uh I think the time for statements
[00:18:22] uh where something is condemned to no one's
[00:18:25] detriment or inflammatory statements that lead nowhere,
[00:18:29] uhm
[00:18:30] uhm
[00:18:34] uh I don't know what the
[00:18:37] role is, maybe Dragiša can help me,
[00:18:41] whether the municipality of Zubin Potok can appeal to the Constitutional
[00:18:45] Court about this or not,
[00:18:48] I read a lawyer from the North who said
[00:18:52] that the municipality has a role
[00:18:55] in this, I am not fully
[00:18:59] informed, but in the existing
[00:19:02] institutional vacuum that exists in Kosovo,
[00:19:05] uh, where everything is. in a state of flux, and
[00:19:09] uh a correction from today, we no longer have a
[00:19:12] president, because Ms.
[00:19:16] Hadžiju took the oath as a deputy and lost
[00:19:19] her status as president,
[00:19:22] uh
[00:19:25] in this vacuum uh
[00:19:28] of irresponsibility uh
[00:19:31] the absence of uh uh uh
[00:19:34] opposition action uh...
[00:19:37] I uh uh uh I don't
[00:19:39] see uh uh a path
[00:19:43] uh uh that will be able to
[00:19:47] bring the entire
[00:19:50] situation back into some more normal
[00:19:53] political frameworks,
[00:20:00] we will also talk about the topic where uh Ilir
[00:20:04] mentioned the investigations regarding the mass grave.
[00:20:07] So we will talk about that later, uh what
[00:20:11] Ilir asked what could be done when it comes to
[00:20:14] the demolition of buildings at Lake
[00:20:17] Gazivode, that is quite a complex problem,
[00:20:20] so what to do and what is controversial there? Well,
[00:20:24] a lot is controversial there, really the most controversial is
[00:20:28] the fact that Kosovar authorities, first of all, a public
[00:20:32] enterprise, it is a enterprise, regardless of whether it is a public
[00:20:35] enterprise, the Ivar Lepenac enterprise. uh
[00:20:38] violates the constitution and laws and its competencies
[00:20:41] in a uh arbitrary manner, uh
[00:20:45] acts as an executive body for demolition, it
[00:20:48] does not have... constitutional or legal right in
[00:20:52] its actions it uses the instrument
[00:20:55] of the Kosovo Police, which provides assistance for
[00:20:58] illegal demolition, which means that here, first of all,
[00:21:02] the public prosecutor of Kosovo should react to initiate
[00:21:05] an investigation into the events in the north of
[00:21:08] Kosovo, meaning all these demolitions are
[00:21:10] illegal, they are not in accordance with legal
[00:21:14] procedure and are an expression
[00:21:18] of uh uh... hegemony over the Serbian
[00:21:21] population living in the area of Lake
[00:21:24] Gazivode, meaning when you come based on an oral decision,
[00:21:28] you demolish a man's house that he built in
[00:21:31] 1981, you don't have
[00:21:34] any legal document, you don't have any legal
[00:21:38] basis, you demolished his house, you gave him a fine of 5,000 euros
[00:21:42] because you demolished his house, and you didn't
[00:21:45] even prove that the land on which he built the house is
[00:21:49] actually yours. That is really a big
[00:21:52] loophole in uh with
[00:21:56] Kosovar institutions and with Kosovar legislation, which among
[00:21:59] other things are also representatives of uh
[00:22:01] the international community, primarily the European Union, several embassies, even
[00:22:05] embassies of countries that are not part of the European Union, for example, the British embassy
[00:22:09] was quite clear about the fact that these are illegal
[00:22:12] procedures, that is, they are procedures that are not in line with legal
[00:22:15] regulations, that they uh must be
[00:22:18] stopped in every. and further instance, after those
[00:22:22] statements, new demolitions continued, continued uh, the
[00:22:26] delivery of invitations continued, you see, so first of all, that
[00:22:29] delivery of invitations is illegal, again I say, here
[00:22:32] the Kosovo Prosecutor's Office and uh
[00:22:35] the Protector of Citizens of Kosovo should react, they do not
[00:22:38] react, uh, Ibag Lepenac has no
[00:22:42] legal right to issue a demolition order,
[00:22:45] they are in this last one even Mr. De Da
[00:22:49] referred to it somewhere, they stated
[00:22:52] in those requests for demolition
[00:22:55] that they had informed municipal inspectors,
[00:22:59] construction inspectors of the municipality of Zubin Potok, this is not true, then
[00:23:03] they brought inspectors from the Ministry of Environmental
[00:23:06] Protection, who carried out an inspection in a
[00:23:09] rather bad way, Mr. Nenezić
[00:23:13] spoke about this many times in several shows, among
[00:23:16] other things, and you just showed a report from one of his guests.
[00:23:20] So they did not establish
[00:23:22] material uh uh uh
[00:23:25] data in a way that allows demolitions,
[00:23:29] then these reports that the inspectors
[00:23:33] of the Ministry of Environmental Protection
[00:23:36] brought, really do not assess the true
[00:23:39] situation and they were brought after the demolition,
[00:23:43] the essence is that even in a legal procedure you cannot
[00:23:47] have uh uh an inspection
[00:23:50] of an object that has already been demolished, you must have a legal remedy
[00:23:54] on the basis of which you will be able to appeal
[00:23:57] and then enter into some procedure for a demolition to occur, that
[00:24:01] really did not happen, what happened is a legal violence,
[00:24:05] legal violence is happening which can continue
[00:24:08] somewhere around August 16
[00:24:11] or 17, when they announced the demolition
[00:24:15] of new uh 11 buildings plus
[00:24:18] the village hall in the village of Rezala, so
[00:24:21] if that actually happens and after
[00:24:25] uh criticism from and appeals from
[00:24:28] the European Commission, which we saw had announced themselves
[00:24:31] uh yesterday or the day before yesterday,
[00:24:34] uh that really
[00:24:37] shows that no one
[00:24:40] can stop what Mr. Kurti is doing in
[00:24:44] a technical mandate. I would here emphasize that
[00:24:47] this government is in a technical mandate. And it implements
[00:24:51] decisions in the north of Kosovo, especially in the municipality of Zubin Potok,
[00:24:54] which change the situation regarding
[00:24:58] the Serbian population, violate the law on local self-government, a host of other
[00:25:01] laws and constitutional guarantees, and there is really no one
[00:25:04] at this moment who can stop it. And what can
[00:25:08] the municipality of Zubin Potok do, or can the municipality of Zubin Potok do anything? You as a civil
[00:25:12] society have undertaken a series of actions, you have issued
[00:25:15] statements, so both you as a convention and as an institute.
[00:25:20] for territorial economic development, as a coalition of organizations
[00:25:23] also uh from the north of Kosovo,
[00:25:27] wrote to the World Bank, and what can be done, can it be done? I must first
[00:25:30] refute you, we as
[00:25:34] a working group for chapter 35 have not dealt with this issue because it is not
[00:25:38] within the scope of the working group for chapter 35,
[00:25:41] but I mean you as a coordinator, I apologize, but
[00:25:44] as uh director of the Institute for territorial
[00:25:48] economic development as one of the damaged parties, I was really
[00:25:52] very much involved and not only me, but my other colleagues
[00:25:55] from different other organizations, uh,
[00:25:58] simply these days we have had a lot of activities, uh...
[00:26:02] regarding this issue uh and other people have been involved and
[00:26:06] legal teams and the municipality of Zubin Potok, I must
[00:26:10] mention that they are trying, in accordance with their
[00:26:13] capacities, to initiate some things, whether it is
[00:26:16] legal aid or some other kind
[00:26:19] of aid to the damaged by these demolitions, as far
[00:26:23] as I know, they have not yet they addressed the Constitutional Court, that certainly
[00:26:27] stands as one of the
[00:26:29] possibilities, but here we have a situation where the competent
[00:26:33] ministry and Ibar Lepenac simply
[00:26:36] overstep the powers of the local self-government, in this case
[00:26:40] the municipality of Zujin Potok without any legal consequences, that
[00:26:43] is what, I repeat, is a hegemony above
[00:26:46] all, we had quite a gloating
[00:26:50] of all Kosovo's authorities, first and foremost
[00:26:54] the Minister for Environmental Protection, Director Mujka, and among others
[00:26:58] Mr. Albin Kurti, who were quite gloating over
[00:27:02] these developments in northern Kosovo, which I
[00:27:05] would like to remind you, started on June
[00:27:09] 1st, when Mr. Kurti held a pre-election
[00:27:12] rally in the village
[00:27:15] of Čečevo where a training
[00:27:18] center was established for the agency for dealing with
[00:27:21] emergency situations, and after that, with
[00:27:25] his speech at that pre-election rally, he announced
[00:27:28] demolitions, the first of which were five houses, that
[00:27:32] is, five plus one house, six houses were demolished exactly at the place where he
[00:27:35] held the rally, then later demolitions started in
[00:27:39] all other parts of the
[00:27:42] watershed lake, but demolitions were also announced in other parts
[00:27:46] of Kosovo, at least that's what the Kosovo authorities say.
[00:27:49] Ilir, we heard statements
[00:27:52] from officials who say that illegal structures
[00:27:55] will be demolished, Ibar Lepenac says that this is about
[00:27:58] their property, do you have
[00:28:01] any information about the Kosovo authorities intending, so to speak, in
[00:28:05] other parts of Kosovo to carry out demolitions of what they call
[00:28:09] illegal structures and do they have work in
[00:28:13] that field? You don't know what the
[00:28:15] question is, what is illegal if it has existed for several
[00:28:19] decades, you understand, then a law is passed
[00:28:23] which is from 2025,
[00:28:25] well, something should be taken into account and then discussed with people, and if
[00:28:29] expropriation is needed, then that is done
[00:28:32] differently, it is not done the way we
[00:28:36] see it in the north, and after many criticisms
[00:28:39] that were given, how can you
[00:28:42] demolish people's houses in that way? Then they said,
[00:28:46] well, now we will look at Badovc and Batlava and such
[00:28:49] or near
[00:28:52] Đakovica uh,
[00:28:55] uh, but that is
[00:28:58] what this is just one of...
[00:29:02] symptoms of the
[00:29:06] policy of the acting
[00:29:09] government, which is the centralization of Kosovo,
[00:29:12] the demolition, demolitions of decentralization as
[00:29:15] a concept, uh, and
[00:29:19] uh, uh, disrespect
[00:29:23] for any legal
[00:29:26] procedures that will, that
[00:29:30] stop this government
[00:29:32] from
[00:29:35] doing what they have decided to
[00:29:38] do, we saw that all last year with the trampling, conscious trampling
[00:29:42] of the constitution, now we are entering a critical phase, meaning if
[00:29:46] we don't have a parliament speaker tomorrow, then that is
[00:29:49] a political chaos, from August
[00:29:52] 8th in Kosovo, we are not in
[00:29:56] chaos, but then it will start, we have
[00:29:59] uh uh actions in the north
[00:30:03] that suspend, completely suspend
[00:30:06] the rule of law,
[00:30:09] of course, that create a picture among Serbs
[00:30:11] that
[00:30:16] Kurti is working against them
[00:30:18] directly
[00:30:21] and a feeling
[00:30:24] of helplessness, you know,
[00:30:28] in organized societies,
[00:30:30] uh... uh uh uh, the limit is known,
[00:30:34] there is no such
[00:30:38] arbitrariness in
[00:30:41] decision-making, and now in Kosovo, it is
[00:30:44] being tested where the red line
[00:30:48] is in arbitrariness
[00:30:51] and I believe...
[00:30:55] uh
[00:30:59] I believe...