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Emblematic Visit Gives Start to Bulgaria, Kosovo Parliament Ties
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Jakup Krasniqi was welcomed at the Bulgarian Parliament by his counterpart Tsetska Tsacheva (right). Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria’s Parliament has established formal relations with the Assembly of Kosovo as the head of the latter visited Sofia on Wednesday.
The Chair of the Kosovo Assembly, Jakup Krasniqi, had a meeting with his Bulgarian counterpart Tsetska Tsacheva, during the first ever foreign visit of a Kosovo parliamentary delegation.
“We hope that Bulgaria will liberalize its regime for Kosovo citizens. Our aim is the integration of our country with Europe because we have adopted the EU values. Kosovo has a lot to offer to Europe. We are going to offer it our own values and young population,” Krasniqi said in the Bulgarian Parliament.
“We have set the start of the official contacts between the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo. On behalf of Bulgaria, I have expressed our support for the development of Kosovo as a multiethnic secular state, which has been guaranteed by its new constitution,” explained Bulgarian Parliament Chair Tsacheva, who has accepted an invitation to return the visit.
Kosovo Assembly head Jakup Krasniqi has made it clear that the visit of the delegation led by him to Bulgaria is of special importance because it is the first official visit abroad to members of the Kosovo Parliament.
Krasniqi has thanked the Bulgarian state and people for the support they have lent to the people of Kosovo during the turbulent developments in the youngest Balkan country.
He has also expressed his country’s gratitude for the fact that the Bulgarian representative at the International Court of Justice in the Hague has defended the cause of Kosovo’s independence with respect to the appeal by Serbia of the legality of the Kosovo declaration of independence from February 18, 2008.
Krasniqi has expressed his conviction that the decision of the ICJ will be in favor of his country’s independence, in his own words, “because the state has to express the will of the people which lives there.”
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