he s been a political prisoner, he launched five tear gas attacks on his own parliament and he has a vision of kosovo unifying with albania. so is he a source of instability in the balkans? theme music plays. prime minister albin kurti in pristina, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. prime minister, your predecessors as leaders of kosovo have all put a big priority in trying to normalise relations with serbia, trying to make peace with serbia. you say it is not even a priority for you. why? we won on 14th of february elections with a landslide victory, with a ticket ofjobs and justice. i don t want to neglect normalisation of relations with serbia, but economic developments on one hand and rule of law against corruption on the other are two top priorities. taken into consideration that we are now amidst a pandemic, covid 19, of course, this means the dialogue with serbia has fallen at best number four in our democratic state building agenda for our independent repub
now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. kosovo has enjoyed independent statehood for 13 years, but almost half the world doesn t recognise it. poverty and corruption is endemic and its own prime minister seemingly has doubts about the desirability of independence. and that prime minister is my guest today. albin kurti has had a turbulent career. he s been a political prisoner, he launched five tear gas attacks on his own parliament and he has a vision of kosovo unifying with albania. so is he a source of instability in the balkans? theme music plays. prime minister albin kurti in pristina, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. prime minister, your predecessors as leaders of kosovo have all put a big priority in trying to normalise relations with serbia, trying to make peace with serbia. you say it is not even a priority for you. why? we won on 14th of february elections with a landslide victory, with a ticket ofjobs
statehood for 13 years, but half the world doesn t recognise it. corruption is endemic in its own prime minister has doubts about the desirability of independence and that prime minister is my guest today. albin kurti has had a turbulent career. he s been a political prisoner and launched five tear gas attacks on his own parliament and he has a vision of kosovo unifying with albania. so is he a source of instability in the balkans? prime minister albin kurti. welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. your status as prime minister of kosovo have all put a big priority in trying to normalise relations with serbia, trying to make peace with serbia. you say it is not even a priority for you. why? we won on the 14th of february elections with a landslide victory with a ticket ofjobs and justice. i don t want to neglect normalisations with serbia, but economic developments on one hand and rule of law against corruption on the other are two top priorities. taken into considerati