Representative
Deputy
Self-Determination Movement
Assembly of Kosovo
10000 - PRISTINA
Assembly of Kosovo*
Working language: English
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... 11/10/2022 | 11:20:16 Thank you very much. Madam Vice President, Dear colleagues, Let me first start by thanking you for giving us this opportunity but also the continued support that many of you have given to Kosovo over the years for us to come this far, and of course for taking this decision for us to be able to actively engage in these debates in the plenary, with the hope that soon we will have the full rights of participation. I would also like to thank the President and the Secretary General for their...