Kreshnik Ahmeti: Greece is one step closer to recognizing Kosovo

2023-12-20 21:58:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Kreshnik Ahmeti, has stated that Kosovo has achieved success in foreign diplomacy this year.

He warned that Kosovo is close to being recognized by Greece and that these two countries have brought their relations closer.

According to Ahmet, next year Kosovo will open the first mission in Poland, and other missions are expected to be carried out.

"We worked on bringing new acquaintances. There has been extremely special progress with Greece, where, in addition to raising the status of our Office, which meant formalizing the relations between our Office there and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we have also begun to sign joint documents...So, Greece is one step closer to recognition in my opinion. In the current context, the Republic of Kosovo, its foreign policy, cannot be evaluated only by the number of recognitions that we have already established as a reality in the international arena, not saying that it is not important, but it is not the only key that can be evaluated" , said Kreshnik Ahmeti.

He says that Kosovo's diplomacy is currently stable. As for the dialogue process with Serbia, it is not expected to be related to Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe.

"The stage where the visa regime will no longer exist for the citizens of Kosovo for short-term visits is approaching after an extremely long time, the success of the good governance of this government... I do not expect that there will be major movements as a result of liberalization . The rules are clear, besides it has been a topic for a long time and the rules are known, there was a campaign by the Government in 30 municipalities where a campaign was made to inform the citizens what liberalization means. I do not see a possibility to connect the dialogue process in Brussels in a formal way with the report of the jurists in the Council of Europe since they are separate organizations... The issues that are addressed are of the context of the region. Kosovo is no worse than the countries that are members of the Council of Europe", he said./ CNA