The Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Hristijan Mickoski, said today that he does not share the same opinion as Deputy Prime Minister, Izet Mexhiti, that the KLA war in Macedonia was just and fair, reports Telegraph Macedonia.
Mexhiti said on Thursday (August 7) that “my position was and remains principled and unwavering: The KLA’s war in Kosovo, the one in Presevo and in Macedonia was just, reasonable and clean. It was a war for statehood, for equality and for the protection of Albanian identity in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.”
Mexhiti, who is also one of the leaders of the coalition of Albanian parties VALEN, also assessed that Kosovo today is a sovereign and functional state in every corner of its territory and that parallel structures in northern Kosovo have been eliminated, while the institutions of the Republic of Kosovo have been consolidated.
Prime Minister Mickoski told reporters today that “the war cannot be reasonable and just, while members of the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Defense were insidiously killed in an ambush. At least not in Macedonia. I do not comment on the neighborhood.”
Mickoski called on “all reasonable politicians not to play the card of (Albanian opposition party) DUI and those who want to take us back 25 years.”
The Prime Minister assessed that in this country these topics are part of the past and that they have been closed with the Ohrid Framework Agreement of 2001, and with the recent amendments to the Law on Equal Representation, which is in the Venice Commission./Telegraph/