times with monarchs who consider the territory of the state as the land of the father or the monarch and the people are the family of the one who leads. we are a democratic republic and no such solutions will be on the table and that s why i won in these elections because people of kosovo do not want that. i think also serbs don t want that. it is president of serbia who wants that. and now, because i came to power, he does not mention any more delimitation with albanians and territorial solutions, but he wants to have bosniasation of kosovo in the form of a serbian autonomous entity within our republic in order to render us dysfunctional and a failed state, but that is not going to happen. the problem for you, mr prime minister, is that as long as this limbo exists for kosovo, and after all, you ve
but we don t want to have these barriers, we want to remove them all together, but they have to get used to reciprocity measures and not any more to asymmetric situation where we have to pay for their aggressiveness. 22 years ago, 19 countries got together and nato bombed yugoslavia serbia at that time. it must have been very bad then, and of course it was very bad because there was genocide in kosovo. at that time, president of serbia that you ve mentioned was minister of information of milosevic s government. so i think that when he says such allegations, you should take them with a certain reserve. isn t there a simple truth here which is that if we look at your political record, you basically seem to believe kosovo is better off in a state of permanent hostility with serbia.
with the albanian flag behind you and that is because you re quite open when you say that albania is one nation divided across two states and you believe kosovo s destiny is to be integrated into albania. how can you be the leader of your own state and yet telling your people you don t believe in the future of your state? to outsiders, that seems incredible. well, i believe in the republic of kosovo and thanks to republic of kosovo, i m prime minister of kosovo, here to serve republic of kosovo, but when we declared independence over 13 years ago, we did not do that in contrast to albania, but as an expression of liberation from serbia, and liberation from serbia made possible for us as albanians to restore our dignity and our civic and human rights. now, towards a serb of kosovo, i m not first of all albanian, i m citizen of the republic. but historically, whenever serbia attacked kosovo, then albanians always united because serbia was a small imperialistic power, very closely linked
you say you do want better relations with serbia, but isn t the truth that the serbian president, mr vucic, when he last spoke with you, he said, you know what, i thought that relations with kosovo couldn t get any worse but i now realise they can always get worse. the serbs see you as a troublemaker, they point to the fact that you just demanded, what, a month ago, that all serbs crossing the border into kosovo change their license plates. that was just regarded as petty and aggressive. why are you playing these games? i m just using reciprocity measures because we are an independent country. for ten years, citizens of kosovo have been paying five euros every time they cross the border towards serbia to get their temporary car plates. now with the expiring of this agreement on mid september this year, we started to implement the same measures, so they take temporary car plates in kosovo once they enter our territory.
the destiny of kosovo is to be integrated into albania. how can you be the leader of your own state and yet telling the people that you don t believe in the future of your state? to outsiders, that seems incredible. i believe in the republic of kosovo and here to serve republic of kosovo, we declare independence over 30 years ago, we did not do that in contrast to albania, but as an expression of liberation from serbia and liberation from serbia made possible from us as albanians to restore our dignity and our civic and human rights. now, towards kosovo, i am a citizen of the republic. historically, whenever serbia attacked kosovo, then albanians always united because serbia was a small imperialistic power and very