Representative
Deputy
Self-Determination Movement
Assembly of Kosovo
10000 - PRISTINA
Assembly of Kosovo*
Working language: English
07/04/2025 | 17:07:30 Dear Chair, dear colleagues, On 9 February we held our national elections in the Republic of Kosovo where 28 political entities ran for a mandate to the Kosovo Parliament, eight of which are of political entities of the majority community, and the rest, namely 20 of them, are political entities of the non-majority communities in Kosovo. These elections were inclusive, they were free and fair, and we take pride in that. These are also the first elections since the Parliament passed a new law... 09/10/2023 | 17:13:06 Dear Mister President, thank you. I promised myself I would not bring myself to this level of discussion but, unfortunately, when I hear my Serbian colleagues not only during this debate but in other debates, I cannot go to this point of what I wanted to discuss. You see 25 years ago, as a 13-year-old, I survived a massacre from the Serbian army, which was then led by men who actually are leading the country now and were part of that regime. As a 13-year-old, I was left in a pile of bodies of... 25/01/2023 | 18:15:36 Thank you, Dear Chair. I would like to start by congratulating and thanking Ms Zita GURMAI, Ms Petra STIENEN and Ms Margreet De BOER for the fantastic reports and really important ones. I think this week we've had some really important topics that have been discussed. I do hope that more attention will be kept throughout these topics, because it is a problem that is global, and it's a very big problem, and we have to find ways to find a solution. Now, sort of in this circumstance; I come from... 25/01/2023 | 16:12:24 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, I would like to start by thanking Mr John HOWELL for bringing this topic to the Council of Europe. It is an important one in an important discussion. I would like to start with saying that Kosovo is a democratic country and is committed to rule of law, human rights, freedom of media, and especially respect and freedom of minorities. And actually, we call them communities – this is how they are in Kosovo – like Albanian, Serbs, Turkish, Bosnian... 24/01/2023 | 10:25:27 Thank you, dear Chair, dear colleagues. I would like to start actually first by thanking Ms Petra BAYR for putting this fantastic report together on such a sensitive and hugely important topic. The details of the report really illustrate very well the situation that we have in relation to the most horrendous and most unpunished crime: that of sexual violence. Coming from a country where women – but not only, men, as was mentioned as well – have experienced sexual violence in conflict not so...