{"id":67361,"date":"2024-03-04T14:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T14:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/?p=67361"},"modified":"2024-03-05T18:20:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T18:20:11","slug":"former-albanian-diplomat-the-process-of-extending-sovereignty-in-kosovo-should-continue-with-persistence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/former-albanian-diplomat-the-process-of-extending-sovereignty-in-kosovo-should-continue-with-persistence\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Albanian diplomat: The process of extending sovereignty in Kosovo should continue with persistence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>The former Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania, Ditmir Bushati, has stated &nbsp;that the process of extending sovereignty in Kosovo must continue with persistence, but interaction with the international community is also needed. The Albanian diplomat accused Serbia of disrupting stability in the region, while emphasizing that Kosovo should be rewarded for its democratic progress with membership in the Council of Europe, but also with the granting of the status of a candidate country for membership in the European Union.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, the punitive measures imposed on Kosovo are unjust\nand as such should be removed from the European Union as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia is inevitable, but\nthe main premises of this dialogue should be underlined, which, as Bushati\nemphasizes, are the normalization of relations between the two states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Albanian diplomat stressed that after the terrorist attack\nin Banjska last year, the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia has also become a\nmatter of regional security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking about Albania&#8217;s role in the dialogue, the MP of the Socialist\nParty, which leads the government in Albania, said that there is room for\nimprovement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the opening of the NATO air base in Ku\u00e7ova, Bushati said that Albania has a contribution to regional stability and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bushati: The process of extending sovereignty in Kosovo should continue with persistence\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xERhyL7EecI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania, Ditmir Bushati, has stated &nbsp;that the process of extending sovereignty in Kosovo must continue with persistence, but interaction with the international community is also needed. The Albanian diplomat accused Serbia of disrupting stability in the region, while emphasizing that Kosovo should be rewarded for its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":67362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[302,306,296,3131],"tags":[4214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67426,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67361\/revisions\/67426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}