Kurti surprised with State Department's report on state of human rights in Kosovo

The State Department's report assessed that there were no significant changes in the state of human rights in Kosovo in 2023.

As the most serious problems the report mentioned the independence of the judiciary, restrictions on freedom of expression and the media, corruption in the government, gender-based violence and threats of violence against ethnic minorities.

“Of course there are criticisms for us, but if you look at the report for 2019, today Kosovo has made extraordinary progress and what surprises me the most is that the report of the US State Department does not quote, for example, Freedom House, Transparency International. If they were quoted, Kosovo would have to be praised,” Kurti told Deutsche Welle.

Speaking about the formation of the Community of Municipalities with the Serbian majority, Kurti said that everything must be in accordance with legality, constitutionality, public interest and in defence of the rights of Kosovo Serb citizens.

He said that the Union “is far from what Belgrade was looking for, as in Bosnia, for which today even international representatives - Europeans and Americans are against, bearing in mind the consequences they have caused to Bosnia.”