Residents of Muharrem Fejza Street demand responsibility from the municipality for the delay of works

The delay of works on the street “Muharrem Fejza” in Pristina, which has become a concern for citizens for some time now, has caused the residents of this area to protest on Tuesday in front of the municipality.

Residents are criticizing the municipality for not coordinating and not managing the works. All this negligence of the communes is costing the citizens who live in this part of the capital.

Residents were promised that the works would be completed on August 13, but that this is far from being realized.

The organizer of the protest, Dren Shahini said that all the works that are being done on this road are without security and that every day endangers the life of everyone who passes there.

Shahini: There is neither oversight nor coordination

“There is no coordination, no supervision. We express revolt and indignation because we have seen your projects both in ‘Peyton’ and in the street of ‘Llap’ as they have lasted. We know and we are convinced and after two months we will have to wait again. Do you know how you left the underground cables, and that they are a danger to us. If a cable needs to be replaced then it will have to be completely open to the road, and all of these would have to be part of your management plan and not us coming and reminding you. You have been waiting to come for a walk with us and see what is created there, the acoustic noise created by the works. Did you know that all the works that are taking place are without a minimum of safety, I have to walk on cables and holes that open to the contractor to go to the other side of the road because somewhere I have to walk, to go to the apartment, we also have to live and live there daily, and not only when the road ends. We are the neighborhood that contributes to its own budget. The taxes that you steal from the builders, as from us, are higher than any neighborhood that you take and at the end of the mandate you decided to return them to us with a project which you are taking out for us “, said Shahini.

The director of Capital Investments in the Municipality of Prishtina, Gëzim Mehmeti, appeared before the protesting residents and invited them for a face-to-face meeting, while adding that he failed to complete the works for central heating.

Mehmeti: The solution I prefer is to finish the central heating

“The solution I prefer is to finish the heating, to finish the construction and installation on the street, I am not satisfied with the work of the economic operators, even if we are dependent on them. The second solution is to stop the central heating, and inside “the instillations should be completed in three weeks”, he said.

In the meeting that took place inside the municipal building, Shahini reiterated that he was there to talk about the problem with the road.

Shahini: I came to talk about “Muharrem Fejza” street

“I came to talk about Muharrem Fejza, not for 200 and 500 meters. Why in the beginning you did not work only in 200 meters, and when it is finished to start with 500 meters? Under two, I sent the photos where see how the cables are buried which are buried without sewerage, those cables we can never change.The deadline is August 13, the deadline is the total[…]”We just want freedom of movement, not when our vehicles are damaged, but also when the construction is completed,” said Shahini.

While Mehmeti presented two possibilities for this, but said that the neighborhood then remains for the next 15-20 years without heating.

Mehmeti: I am telling you about the competence of the director

I am telling you from the competence of the director of capital investments, contract management we have two options, it is an opportunity to completely terminate the economic operators who are not part of the municipality that do not have a contract with the municipality, ‘Termokosit’, ‘KEDS In this case, even the public companies that are expanding the internet network, I can do it, it means that it is the easiest solution for me, if today I give an order to suspend the work permits, we tell the inspection, the inspection comes out and inspects the work and they are withdrawn from the workshop, which means the neighborhood is alive for the next 15-20 years without heating, ”says Mehmeti.

Whereas, Arbene Abrashi, citizen of this road said that initially the winner was announced and then they coordinated with other operators

Abrashi: When you announced the contractors, you had a coordination of works

“When you announced the contractors, you had absolutely no coordination of work. Now you are telling us that we have to decide,” she added.

Residents of “Muharrem Fejza” street in Pristina, on Thursday afternoon have protested about the infrastructural situation in their neighborhood, as a result of the works for four months now. By blocking the main road for a few minutes, the residents of this neighborhood demanded the intensification of works, otherwise they announced larger protests in front of the building of the Municipality of Prishtina.

Residents’ representative, Dren Shahini, while listing the complaints in this neighborhood, said that they feel neglected by the municipality.

He said that now their neighborhood has turned into a horror for a living and worse, according to him they are not informed what date these works are completed.

Shahini: It is unbearable dust on hot days and unbearable clay on rainy days

“The dust is unbearable on hot days and the clay is unbearable on rainy days. With the recent rains, not because of the intensity but because of the works back businesses have been badly damaged, many basements have been flooded, many buildings and garages on the ground floor. It is not at all dignified that no authority at least from the municipality has been to visit these damaged businesses. For four months we have been turning into circus acrobats trying to find stones and whatever it takes to get past the past. For four months now, people with special needs have been locked in their homes because they have no way out and no one can walk or move. Nowadays, almost every day, a car is damaged due to open wells and because the alternative roads we use are not maintained. This treatment that is being done to us is unignified … Our essential requirements are these: Intensification of works even in the evening, even in three shifts, whatever the municipality must respond to this request, the works must be unstoppable, not on time official 4-8 but to work all the time because we do not dare to enter the winter season with this tempo approach “, he said.

Other protesting residents also criticized the government of Pristina Mayor Shpend Ahmeti, saying that living in this neighborhood has become difficult as a result of its poor management.

Sword: Here you are like living in Kabul, I do not know what that mayor did

“It happened to me personally with a neighbor with a small child, it was an emergency and I remained in the column. The child has not even been a year old and I have never felt like I was a child… even if the other person is elderly, he has the right to receive the necessary services. Here you are like living in Kabul, how much tax we pay… and in the end, for a year, the sewage is coming out there. There is nothing more shameful, I do not know what that mayor is doing. In my opinion, he is the worst management that the history of Prishtina knows “said the resident Alfred Shpata.

Resident Zenel Sherifi was also critical.

Sheriff: I call Prishtina the capital with this situation

“It has made our life very difficult. I am a compatriot. I have the freshest case on Monday with my mother, I’m five sick, I wanted to hold it in my hands… I was born here with potholes when it was without asphalt, but still after 49 years with potholes. With this poor management and has been said to be the capital of Kosovo. I did not call it the capital because I am coming to say that I am from Prishtina with this situation like this, dust catastrophic road, we come from there and I have to invest in cars in the pits of Prishtina, this is taken “said the other resident Zenel Sherifi.

Whereas, Dren Shahini, warned of new protests in front of the municipality in case their demands for intensification of works are not realized within a week.

Shahini: I will be in front of the municipal assembly

“I promise you that together with you we will not extend the protest for more than a week, if we do not see intensification of works let the municipality do what it wants, let it ask for help from the Ministry of Infrastructure, intensification of works otherwise this is the last time that we protest in the neighborhood we do not block with ourselves. I will be in front of the municipal assembly and together with us we will take the dust, fecal water and mud, we will take it with us and we will leave it before the entrance of the municipality of Prishtina, let them also experience what it means to live in dust every day “, mud and the smell of fecal water,” he said.

Protesters criticized Mayor Shpend Ahmeti for not visiting the neighborhood, saying it had only been once in eight years of his term.

world
May 30, 2021 – 09:29

Tens of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets on Saturday to express their frustrations over the management of the Covid-19 crisis by President Jair Bolsonaro. These were the biggest protests the country has seen since the pandemic began last year.

Demonstrators in some of the country’s largest cities, including Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, blamed the president and demanded an investigation into him, as well as called for better access to Covid-19 vaccines. Many protesters did not appear to be practicing social distancing, although most wore masks.

Bolsonaro repeatedly downplayed the pandemic in its early stages and sabotaged attempts to enforce social distancing or blockages. The Brazilian Senate is conducting an investigation into the treatment of the pandemic by the Bolsonaro government.

Brazil is facing a third wave of Covid-19. The Ministry of Health reported 79,670 new Covid-19 cases and 2012 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday. The country has recorded more than 460,000 deaths from Covid-19 and 16 million infections.

Of its population of more than 210 million, about 19 million, or less than 9.4% have been fully vaccinated. / a2cnn

The establishment of the Association of Serb-majority municipalities is a public demand of Serbia in relation to the final agreement in the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, but the real demand includes “major autonomy”, says in an interview with Radio Free Europe, Naim Rashiti, director of the Group of the Balkans, which deals with policy research.

Rashiti also warns of the publication of a new “non-paper” and says this will happen because “there is an intense increase in the process of independence of the Republika Srpska” in Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to him, “the ambitions of powerful nationalist actors have grown in the Balkans.”

Recently, the Balkan Group has engaged external experts to assist the Government of Kosovo in the dialogue process with Serbia.

Radio Free Europe: The Group for the Balkans, the Government of Kosovo and the Embassy of Norway, at the end of April, signed a memorandum of understanding, which sets out the modalities for engaging external experts in the dialogue process with Serbia and other agendas related to dialog. Specifically, what will be the role of this group?

Naim Rashiti: This is a continuation of a project that started earlier. We also had such an agreement with the Hoti Government. We support, we contract external experts, to serve the government, in this case the Deputy Prime Minister and the Prime Minister. In the previous government, he was the coordinator for dialogue and the prime minister with external experts on the issue of dialogue, ie to help the government prepare better for dialogue. Thus, our mandate ends.

Their names, their selection is done at the request of the government, but there are some criteria that should not be political representatives, should not be members of political entities. They should be and have special expertise in dialogue issues and all these people who are in the team right now, have their own expertise in dialogue both in financial terms, whether in international law or negotiations, or in relations and developments. of the EU, whether of previous dialogue processes, or the entire continuation of the dialogue.

These experts are contracted as experts to support the government and give responsibility in terms of content, to the prime minister and deputy prime minister. They work, commit to tasks related to dialogue and undertaken by the Deputy Prime Minister.

Radio Free Europe: Why do you think the Government of Kosovo or the Prime Minister needs such a group of experts from abroad?

Naim Rashiti: Different governments have always had help from abroad. And we have created an easy mechanism to mobilize such a group, and there may be other (names), or it may happen that one of them does not stay on the team, we do not know. It depends on the dynamics of the process that takes place, on the relationship and responsibilities they receive from the Deputy Prime Minister and the Prime Minister for external experts and their mobilization to help the government.

Kosovo has little tradition in this dialogue. Since the Vienna process, which was attended by the strategic political group and other experts working on the dialogue, there has been no continuation of these processes. And every government has failed to create a powerful group within the government that deals with this issue.

In Serbia, at best, 100 people work, in case they have issues to work on, up to 200 people from the institutional political structure are engaged, working on issues related to the dialogue with Kosovo. In this case, with the consent of the government and their understanding, I believe also with their welcome, we have created this team to help them.

Radio Free Europe: The new government initially said it did not consider the issue of dialogue a priority. But, she already declares that she considers it as a matter of national interest. How do you see the current commitment of the government to this process?

Naim Rashiti: Dialogue is for anyone in government. When we started this project, when we designed it, we did not know who would be in government and whether governments would change so often.

We now have a government led by Albin Kurti and responsible for dialogue, Besnik Bislim. Issues related to participation in dialogue, modalities of dialogue are political issues.

Kosovo’s European future goes through dialogue with Serbia, which is not at all good and is not at all welcome.

But, this is how the EU and the current government and any other government have formed their positions, they should work hard, engage a lot, intensively in dialogue and at the same time produce as much as possible, push as many agendas as possible. others with the EU, in parallel with the dialogue and especially with the EU member states, because Kosovo’s relations with Germany are not only through dialogue. Relations with France are not just through dialogue.

The current government should build pro-active agendas with EU institutions and EU member states, in parallel with dialogue, without slowing down or alienating dialogue, but pushing all agendas in parallel.

There is no agreement without intensive dialogue

Radio Free Europe: The Kosovo-Serbia dialogue has not yet managed to find a way to a final agreement. Where do you see the flaws in the process so far?

Naim Rashiti: We do not have an intensive process. There will be no agreement, there will be no agreement if there is no intensive dialogue process, if we do not have political support from all parties, in particular, if in Kosovo we do not have a political mobilization and strategic determination whether it will. do we end this or not. And in the international aspect we have to see what the EU has on the table together with the US, for a Kosovo-Serbia agreement.

None of the conflicts in the Balkans has been resolved only through bilateral dialogue, but it has been a package of a larger process, although not to resolve this issue in the interest of both parties, Kosovo and Serbia. But, it must be invested to have an intensive process one year, two years, three years, to seek the best agreement, an agreement that puts Kosovo on a completely different standard from what is today internationally.

Radio Free Europe: You mentioned political mobilization. The opposition has so far said that it will not be involved in the dialogue process, but will only monitor the dialogue. Do you expect a unification of the political factor in Kosovo regarding the dialogue?

Naim Rashiti: For a phase where a comprehensive agreement can be negotiated, there must necessarily be the involvement of all institutions, but also political entities. It is something that will require, in some form, the approval of all the main actors, the main subjects, it is necessary.

The mechanism of how this should be found we do not know. But, it is a little early to talk about these mechanisms or internal functioning, until we have a dynamic of dialogue, unless a clearer agenda of dialogue is known.

Will we have a dialogue agenda? We do not know because it will depend on Kosovo, Serbia and the EU. We need to understand correctly that the dialogue process is becoming more and more difficult, through the fault of all factors.

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Sport
April 18, 2021 – 20:50

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Football Club “Vitia” has been one of the clubs that has reacted many times for the quality of reference in Kosovar football.

Finally, the team from Anamorava has demanded deep reform within FFK otherwise they will boycott the competitions.

Complete response from KF Vitia without intervention:

Reaction: Fc Vitia has several times asked the FFK to increase the quality of referral, but apparently no one is interested in such a thing as it is contradicting the criminal gangs that are inside the FFK. Even these cases mostly appear in the last rounds, harming and favoring the clubs, I have pentified it several times but we have not found understanding. Those words are being seen day by day that here is an organized crime of FFK that has problems in every match. Fc Vitia opposes any violence in football but we again ask the FFK bodies to increase the quality of referral and eliminate criminal groups. On the contrary, we as clubs will boycott the competitions… and will call for a deep reform within FFK. FC Vitia