The young Kosovars Gent Cakaj to be Albanian foreign Minister – but President Ilir Meta rejects the. Because Cakaj to support border changes in the Region, the Meta does not want to.
Until a year ago Albanians barely knew the name of Gent Cakaj. Now, the 28-Year-old Kosovars all the rage. Edi Rama, the socialist Prime Minister of Albania, the current Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs as head of the Albanian foreign diplomacy. The opposition camp belonging to President Ilir Meta rejects it categorically, and refuses his appointment, to sign for Gent Cakaj is in favour of border changes in the Western Balkans.
Rama would like to bring the matter to the constitutional court, as he announced on Monday after a Meeting with his socialist party through the short message service Twitter. Until the final decision is, he wants to be for the time being, even as foreign Minister: “Until that day, which will be very soon, I’m going to assume dejure this role”, wrote Rama in a Tweet.
Young and inexperienced
However, you can take the decision of the constitutional court, because the current row are checked for judges and prosecutors, due to their financial circumstances and, therefore, there is a lack of staff.
“His lack of experience with politics, administration, diplomacy, and also state structures”, said the President of his rejection. In fact, the Alba white niche Public very little about him. This is because, unlike Austria, Sebastian Kurz, was already a young foreign Minister, Rama’s request, a candidate not a party-political career.
Two Bachelor’s and three master’s degrees in Belgium and the Sorros South-Eastern Europe-he University in Hungary and completed. Before he was in the summer of 2018 to the Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs and negotiator of Albania for the accession process to the EU, he was political Advisor to the Prime Minister.
Blank slate: Gent Cakaj (with microphone) to Alba of the Minister of foreign Affairs
Controversial political setting
The political novice Gent Cakaj President Ilir Meta, but also due to the content differences, there is a thorn in the eye: According to the Meta-Cakaj to be a supporter of the idea of the area jam’s and of the marginal correction in the question of Kosovo. The Albanian President refers in his assessment on an Interview of the Deputy foreign Minister with the Kosovan broadcaster Klan Kosova, where Cakaj of the “General border corrections, to be held in the Western Balkans”.
The President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi and his Serbian counterpart Alexander Vucic. The had brought the issue of border changes as a possible solution to the territorial dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in the summer of 2018 for the first Time in the conversation. This would mean that an area in the North of Kosovo, which is predominantly inhabited by Serbs, to Serbia. In return, an area in the South of Serbia would fall, in the predominantly ethnic Albanians live, in Kosovo.
Albania President Ilir Meta and the acting Minister of foreign Affairs Ditmir Bushati reject the idea of Germany as well. The United States, however, are proponents of this proposal.
Kosovo Minister
Edi Rama wants to Minister Gent Cakaj as a foreign
Prime Minister Edi Rama has not commented specifically on this proposal, whilst maintaining a close friendship with the Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi. Many understand his Silence as a fundamental support. His last Cabinet reshuffle, where, in addition to Cakaj also Minister of education, Besa Shahini from the Kosovo originates, is also seen as a step towards a political Albanian Union are to belong together in the Albania and Kosovo.
Rama rejects this Interpretation: “I have not appointed Gent Cakaj as Kosovars and not because he is young, but because he is a European, a policy of enthusiastic and inquisitive Albanians,” he said the other day on the new year’s reception in Albania accredited Ambassador.
However, Rama also announced that a direct communication with Albanians in the Region. First and foremost, it was up to the Albanians in Kosovo, but also in all other countries, in Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia, stated the head of the government.
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In this context, you can also see the abolition of border controls between Albania and Kosovo. In the spring, the border controls between Kosovo and Albania should fall permanently.
Fear of greater Albania
Serbia views on these developments concern: “The political decision on the abolition of the border between Kosovo and Albania obviously leads to the creation of a greater Albania,” said the Serbian Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, a few days ago in Belgrade.
Berlin does not believe in it. In response to a request from the AfD group in the Bundestag in the autumn, the Federal government assured that the idea of a political unification of all ethnic Albanians would be in a state of hardly any international support. Only the small opposition Kosovar party “Vetevendosje”, it says.
Schengen as a model
Also Rama denies that a greater Albania would be the target. He sees the abolition of the border between Kosovo and Albania, as a natural development, which would also be sought in the framework of the CEFTA agreement.
Highly porous borders, Rama wants to create with Northern Macedonia and Montenegro. He had spoken with the Northern Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. Both heads of government were ready “to create a fluid border,” according to the Schengen model. “We are Europeans like you and want us to at least move among us freely, just as you are free,” said Rama before the international diplomats.
Also, Zaev said in his new year’s address for the opening of the border. “This would stimulate the economy and to the citizens of all the countries in the Region for the benefit of,” said the Prime Minister.