Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has called for Ireland’s support for Kosovo’s progress towards membership in the European Union, stressing that the country should first obtain candidate status and open membership negotiations.
While in Dublin, where he is participating in the European Political Community ( Kurti has declared that Kosovo accounts for the Irish presidency to help in this process.
In his statement to the media, after hosting Ireland’s Prime Minister Michel Martin, Kurti has praised Ireland’s European path and has expressed Kosovo’s intention to join the European Union and NATO.
Ireland is a great story of success in European integration and membership. The Republic of Kosovo also wants to join the European Union and NATO, but to get there first we must obtain candidate status and open negotiations for membership. We count on the Irish presidency, Kurti has declared.
He has also expressed gratitude for the Irish people’s housing of more than a thousand Kosovo Albanian refugees during 1999, as well as for Irish soldiers and officers who have served under KFOR for more than two and a half decades.
Kurti has stressed that the European Union and NATO are necessary organisations for democracy, prosperity and overall security.
Speaking of the European Political Community meeting, the prime minister has praised the importance of co-ordinating positions among European leaders, at a time when Russian aggression in Ukraine is continuing and threats include critical infrastructure and hybrid warfare.
It is very important that leaders meet together, discuss and harmonise their positions at a time when Russian aggression in Ukraine is continuing and with kinetic warfare, attacks on critical infrastructure and hybrid warfare are going beyond the aggression in Ukraine. So, I think EPC helps because leaders gather and unite!
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