Kosova official visits Albania, talks on status negotiations

TIRANA, Feb. 25 – Kosovar Deputy Prime Minister Lutfi Haziri on Sunday visited Albania to meet with all top local officials and tell them where the status talks were at the moment. Prime Minister Sali Berisha highly evaluated the stand of the negotiating team from Kosova and assured of the full support from his government and to their demands presented at the round table headed y the U.N. Envoy, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari. They also talked on the developments in Kosova and the relations between Tirana and Prishtina.
Haziri also met with Foreign Minister Besnik Mustafaj. The Albanian minister said the meeting was in the series of contacts both governments have had during the negotiations on Kosova’s status process. They discussed on the expected development to the closure of the status talks. Mustafaj said that the Kosovar negotiating team was very mature, responsible and cooperative with President Ahtisaari and his group. “Their suggestions and comments aim at reaching at a document which secures Kosova as a fully functional independent country that will produce stability for itself and the neighbors, a country where all Kosova’s citizens, despite their ethnic affiliation, feel at home, an open country for cooperation and friendly relations with Serbia, Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro,” said Mustafaj. After thanking the Albanian authorities for their assistance and support, Haziri said that ‘this spring will be different from others, it will be the spring that is to define, finally, our future which is Kosova’s independence.’