Xennial husband, dad. Ideas & energy entrepreneur. Ex: Foreign Minister
#Kosovo
, CEO
@mfkosovo
. Personal tweets. RT≠endorse. “A Republic, if you can keep it”
🚨Disturbing from
@Nato
member country Albania. Russian suspected agents arrested, while two soldiers are injured, one in critical condition w/ “chemical agent” local media report. Ministry of Defense confirmed three foreign tried to enter weapons factory:
❗️Breaking. Albanian prosecutor stating to local media reporting two soldiers injured while arresting three suspected Russian agents, found illegally inside a perimeter of a weapons factory in town of Gramsh.
Your time will never, ever come. Nor it should. If the world listened to you in 1999, my family and million other Kosovars would have been refugees scattered across refugee camps. For the sake of Brits, Europeans, good people across the political spectrum - quit now.
Great news!
@Spotify
has officially announced its launch in Russia and all Balkan countries. In addition to Russia, it arrives in all Balkan countries on July 15:
#Kosovo
, Albania, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, BiH, Northern Macedonia.
Ha. Good old
@DannyDeVito
, explaining his Albanian origin. He even remembers how his grandma, bless her, spoke Gheg/Gegë, the Albanian dialect of north Albania / Kosovo, also found in medieval Albanian communities in Calabria and Sicily.
Further update to this story: 2 Russian men and one women arrested inside the grounds of weapons factory after attacking guards. Two soldiers injured. Anti-terror and Intel service of Albania now on the ground. Local media claim they came in as tourists.
Exactly 23 years ago, on a lake in a middle of
#Serbia
, a truck emerged from depth of the water. It was full with 83 bodies of Albanian civilians massacred by Serbian forces in
#Kosovo
. They tried to hide the crime by stealing the bodies & submerging them hundreds of miles away.
Ceca, Serbian “queen of turbo folk”, arrested for suspected role in murder of PM Djindjic; sentenced for embezzlement; married to war criminal Arkan; caught live on TV wearing jewlery stolen by her murderous husband from Bosniak victims; talks about “nationalism of Dua Lipa.” 🤦♂️
Yes it’s burek! In content of the rainbow colors made especially for the
#PrideMonth
#Pride
by Nick, one of best known Albanian chefs. Following him in IG: 🇦🇱 🇽🇰 🏳️🌈
The old photo is from 1990 when Serb militants put barricades across Croatia to block roads and police. Wars in former Yugoslavia started soon after. Second photo is from this week, Serb militants blocking roads in Kosovo. It's tragic how little has Belgrade learned in 30 years.
No politics?
@FIFAWorldCup
bans European teams having
#OneLove
human rights armbands, yet Serbian team’s locker room adorned with the map of Kosovo, with superimposed Serbian flag & a call “No Surrender”. Kosovo is an equal member of
@FIFAcom
folks. Obscene.
#WorldcupQatar2022
The very last act by Ambassador
@nikkihaley
before she resigned from
@USUN
was to request strategic review of
@UNMIKosovo
mission & prepare exit strategy. Millions of $ from
@UN
members' being wasted on a "zombie" mission without any role against wishes of the majority of UNSC.
All of the northern Kosovo is now under control of masked gangs. Bombs have been thrown and a Kosovo policeman was injured at last night. It's clear Serbia is using the situation to aggravate crisis. We're one major incident away from a real armed conflict.
As
@SecBlinken
confirmed earlier, the new Biden administration continued the implementation of Washington Agreement. Israel - Kosovo relations have now been established, but the recognition only came after Grenell push, regardless of what some people think of the agreement.
[Thread] Interview by
@RichardGrenell
on forthcoming dialogue between
#Kosovo
&
#Serbia
, under the auspices of
@realDonaldTrump
is quite clear: US will focus on economic, EU on political aspects of the final settlement. No room for silly conspiracies.
Soldiers drunk, looting houses, raping women, burning property, in the end shooting everyone, or maybe slaughtering them. There’s such a distinctive and utterly inhuman shared trait between Serbian forces of 1990s & Russians now.
#Bucha
#Ukraine
#Balkans
#Srebrenica
#Kosovo
At the same time, Kosovo (not a
@NATO
member) has voluntarily offered
@NATO
allies Kosovan soldiers to station in Ukraine or eastern flank, and any other contribution necessary for any needs by US and allies in the current crisis.
His announcement that in the event of an escalation Croatia would withdraw "to the last soldier" probably refers to Croatian participation in an American-led battlegroup in Poland. The 8th contingent of Croatians, around 350 soldiers, just arrived there on Monday.
🚨Disturbing from
@Nato
member country Albania. Russian suspected agents arrested, while two soldiers are injured, one in critical condition w/ “chemical agent” local media report. Ministry of Defense confirmed three foreign tried to enter weapons factory:
Quick impact and fast track decision to help cross border cooperation between
#Kosovo
and
#Serbia
. To be honest,
@RichardGrenell
is delivering on content - despite naysayers who indulge in cynical tweets but provide little momentum to solving fundamental problems in Balkans.
This is not Kosovo. We have our troubles and challenges, but crime rates are significantly lower than in Alejandro's native country. Actually crime rates in Argentina are closer to Syria and Venezuela than Kosovo which has crime rates comparable to Canada.
What a tremendous story: An Albanian singer, daughter of a pizza maker in Staten Island, she used to pen lyrics for
@rihanna
&
@Eminem
- now becomes the first female artist ever to debut at number one on the US country charts.
@BebeRexha
is an inspiration!
It's that anniversary again. This year, I apologise for killing someone who didn't die during the
#BattleofHogwarts
, but who laid down his life to save the people who'd win it. I refer, of course, to Dobby the house elf.
US Envoy
@RichardGrenell
: "We're happy to see Europeans organize the dialogue rounds on 10-12 of July. We offer our support". Thankfully, he reminds everyone: "We hope the key issue of
#Kosovo
's visa liberalization will be solved during these meetings" -
RIP Coolio, the first known musician to have visited a post-war
#Kosovo
for a concert. There was no running water or electricity all the time, refugees were still returning but
#Coolio
showed up. A nice photo (by Koha) of then Mayor Ismet Beqiri & the deceased artist.
#CoolioRIP
Furthermore,
@RichardGrenell
states he has been in continuous contact with high level French & German officials and indicates allies are in the same page regarding division of labour. He also criticizes (rightfully so, if I may add) Europeans on not enabling visalib for Kosovars.
Thread on the another crazy weekend in Serbian gov-controlled media landscape: Firstly, here's a front page of Serbian gov-owned tabloid carries an "interview": "
#Srebrenica
,
#Recak
and
#Bucha
are a face of same propaganda". Genocide denialism at its worst. (1)
Hey
@NobelPrize
. You do know Handke was supporting
#SiegeofSarajevo
, drinking rakija with soldiers who were killing kids with snipers, stating "Muslims are killing themselves"? Disgusting. This is the single most offensive possible decision. What's next? Assad for Peace Prize?
Further update to this story: 2 Russian men and one women arrested inside the grounds of weapons factory after attacking guards. Two soldiers injured. Anti-terror and Intel service of Albania now on the ground. Local media claim they came in as tourists.
Nothing short of grotesque. The true travesty of justice is that for
#warcrimes
during
#Kosovo
war, there have been 50% more Albanians than Serbs sentenced. Total 37 Kosovo Albanians and ONLY 25 Serbs sentenced (in ALL local, Hague, EULEX courts). - data from
@FHPHLC
Man of the match Granit Xhaka, after the win in
#FIFAWorldCup
match between 🇨🇭 & 🇷🇸, put on the backside shirt of Swiss player Ardon Jashari. Subtext to all Albanians was clear. Jashari is the last name of the founder of KLA, executed with 60 members of family by Serbia in 1998.
Many men began to leave the forests and surrender after realizing they had no escape. One such man was Ramo Osmanovic, who was forced by Serb soldiers to call his son, Nermin, into surrender. Both father and son were executed. ⚫️
#BosnianGenocide
Mazel tov! 🇽🇰🇮🇱🇺🇸
#Israel
’s PM is to confirm imminently it has recognized
#Kosovo
as independent republic & established bilateral relations, following an agreement to be signed by
#Kosovo
and
#Serbia
leaders in few minutes, according to
@gazetaexpress
correspondent from DC.
Kosovo should send official request to Kyiv to open a diplomatic representative office in
#Ukraine
. We can use the same model of our office in Greece. It’s a country which doesn’t formally recognize us but we have excellent diplomatic bilateral relations. 🇽🇰 🇺🇦 🇬🇷
#SupportUkraine
Times Square has hosted several Albanian global music stars in its billboards last few years. Here’s the latest shining star in the NYC streets and global charts:
@IAmENISA
.
Reuters: Albania arrests three foreigners trying to enter military plant. Two of its soldiers were injured while trying to stop three suspects who were trying to enter a military plant in central Albania. Two had Russian and one had Ukrainian passports.
@DenisMacShane
@danielrhamilton
@florianeder
Looking forward to wait in the same lines in the world’s airports with British friends. We can share experiences of which queues go faster, which border cops are grumpier and similar stuff...
Klitschko, Mayor of heroic Kyiv, speaks to Swiss Albanian journalist in
#Davos
: "Thank you Kosovo for all the support and thank you Albanians too. Since you got to liberate yourselves from Serbia we'll also liberate our land from
#Russia
" [correction]
President of Serbia tonight in private messages to EU/US: “I can’t control the media. Russians have infiltrated my own media, they also control my secret service. They already killed Djindjic, I’m doing best but don’t pressure me on Kosovo. My life is threatened”.
After liberation of Kosovo, grim reality of mass graves shocked the world. Serbian government has even had a morbid operation of stealing the corpses of Albanian civilians and reburying them or throwing the bodies in lakes. Same will happen now. It’s same school of terror.
@thatjensenwoman
Thank your husband on my behalf. One of central monuments in Prishtina city center, on Saint Mother Teresa boulevard, is dedicated to British soldiers who lost lives in Kosovo. Gratitude is eternal and consensual in our society.
Most disgusting racist campaign in the middle of
#NotreDame
tragedy. Several Serbian media - all under control of President Vucic - are publishing same conclusion: “God has PUNISHED NOTRE DAME and France for allowing Kosovo flag to be shown inside the
#NotreDame
. Thus the flames”
On the day liberal-neocon imperialism was defeated once and for all, DiEM25's thoughts are with the women of Afghanistan. Our solidarity probably means little to them but it is what we can offer - for the time being. Hang in there sisters!
[Thread] A scandal just broke in Central African Republic, where media have uncovered a payment of 350,000Euro from Serbia to the CAR's minister, in return of obtaining a letter of "derecognition"of Kosovo. via
@CorbeauNews
Centrafrique
Serbia: The only EU accession country voting against Ukraine in UN.
EU: Silent.
Serbia: Buying massive amount of Russian weaponry.
EU: Silent.
Serbia: Provides strong support to Maduro regime.
EU: Silent
Israel & Kosovo establish diplomatic relations.
EU: 😡🤬😱😤🎃⚔️
Radio Free Europe reporting both Kosovo police and NATO forces have now deployed additional units in north Kosovo in response to the crisis and the barricades erected by Serb militants. At the same time, Belgrade propaganda machinery tonight in overdrive.
🟠 Forca shtesë të Policisë dhe KFOR-it te Ura e Ibrit
Serbët lokalë në veri të Kosovës kanë bllokuar me kamionë, dhe me mjete tjera, rrugët që çojnë drejt dy pikëkalimeve kufitare që lidhin Kosovën dhe Serbinë – Jarinjë dhe Bërnjak.
🔗 Më shumë:
No sir, streets of
#Kosovo
are far safer than streets of French cities, and I dare say - more welcoming. Once
#COVID19
crisis is over, you’re invited to visit our Republic - which owes its independence also to your Republic - and enjoy our joie de vivre. 🇽🇰 🇫🇷 🇽🇰 🇫🇷
#Dijon
On ne peut pas laisser prospérer cette guerre des gangs !
Une chienlit se généralise
Les rues de Dijon ressemblaient aux rues du Kosovo avec des bandes kalachnikovs à la main
@CNEWS
Kingdom of Spain recognizes the passport of the Republic of Kosovo as valid travel document, a week after EU finally enables Kosovo the visa free travel to a Schengen area. (Source: )
This settles it. Much needed for all the peddlers in conspiracies and fake news. Joint Statement of Special Presidential Envoy
@RichardGrenell
, Ambassador Philip Kosnett, and Special Representative for the Western Balkans Matthew Palmer on
#Kosovo
-
Dutch soldiers decided to throw a party after leaving Bosniaks at the mercy of Serbian forces for an orgy of blood and death in
#Srebrenica
,. An eternal, unwashable stain on Netherland but also entire Europe.
#SrebrenicaGenocide
#Srebrenica25
Kosovo fulfilled visa liberalization conditions in 2018. EU parliament says so. EU commission says so. Some EU states say now 🇽🇰 must deliver more in RoL. Oh ok? Why did you then approve visa lib for Venezuela in 2019, a brutal dictatorship with no RoL, no democracy, no justice.
Uhm. Hey, Russian diplomats, have some decency. The images you’re using to attack
@NATO
are of Albanian refugees verifiably on the run, escaping from Milosevic’s criminal genocidal enterprise.
@nato
saved them and stopped Milosevic and brought peace and stability to Balkans.
Today is 22nd anniversary of the day when NATO brought death & destruction to
#Yugoslavia
by attacking a sovereign state in total disregard for intl law. NATO’s 78 days long “humanitarian intervention” took lives of 2000 innocent people, turned thousands more into refugees
EU office in Prishtina, where citizens support EU membership by 90%, has a 3 meter high fence in center of the city. EU office in Belgrade, where citizens support EU membership by 47%, has no security fence. Not only is EU keeping Kosovo in visa cage, it keeps itself in a cage.
Overheard in Prishtina: half a dozen newly arrived British soldiers walking around Prishtina Mall, the humongous new mall, biggest in South East Europe, somewhat bewildered. One of them says: “bruv, we’re safer here than Birmingham”.
❗️Kosovo parliament votes resolution opening a path for
#Kosovo
to offer a refuge for up to 5,000 Ukrainians. The resolution was voted unanimously, except the Serbian minority MPs who are under control of Belgrade and who refused to condemn Russian aggression.
#StandWithUkraine
As Ottoman Empire was collapsing, Albanians had to deal w/ competing allegiances pushed by religious authorities of Sunni Islam, Bektashi order, Catholicism & Orthodoxy. This is when Pashko Vasa, Albanian governor of Lebanon, coined phrase “Religion of Albanians is Albanianism”.
Here’s my periodic, depressive reminder how EU is keeping Kosovo and Kosovar children in a cage in the third decade of 21st century like some rabid dogs, despite EU also saying we fulfilled all criteria. Venezuelans, Mexicans, Nicaraguans can all travel to EU as free people.
From my office in city center, I'll walk on George W Bush Avenue, which leads to Bill Clinton Boulevard. This one is connected to Senator Bob Dole street which leads to Secretary Albright Square. There are reasons why our street names are named so: USA was always with us. 🇽🇰🇺🇸
Serbian President has bombastically announced that Somalia and Libya have withdrawn recognitions of
#Kosovo
. In the meantime, last few days diplomats of these respective two countries met officially Kosovo ambassadors in Brussels and Ankara to reinforce “deepening the relations”.
Fan Noli, one of the most fascinating Albanian personalities, was born 140 years ago. He founded Albanian Orthodox Church; served as prime minister; as a diplomat he landed Albania in League of Nations - and is still considered one of best translators of Ibsen, Poe, Cervantes…
21 years ago, 6 Serbian kids were murdered in cold blood in Peja. KLA was blamed and incident was used to stoke fire by Milosevic. Years later it became clear this crime was committed by Serbian secret service, one of many heinous false flag operations.
Twitter is awesome. New
#Serbia
finance minister Siniša Mali: "We will bring 10% from 600 million Chinese tourists to
#Belgrade
."
Journalist:
That's like 60 million.
Mali:
"I meant 1%."
Journalist:
That's 6 million.
A point. Muslim majority Bosniaks and Kosovans are supporting Ukrainian Christians. Serbian Christians are supporting Muslim Chechens. Which proves religion is not, has not been, will not be the premise of geopolitics in Balkans or elsewhere.
Serbian President has “no intentions” visiting Srebrenica because ‘we need to stop revisiting the misunderstandings of the past”.
#Genocide
. It’s genocide! Not
#misunderstanding
. Brnabic refusing to accept the international judicial decision is a disgrace.
My editorial for
@thetimes
: Attention in Balkans given to Novak is not a mere irrational schadenfreude. The world’s number one tennis player has in recent years embraced a far more sinister agenda which provokes a deep anxiety across the Balkans -
Important initiative from Ukrainian MPs, calling for recognition of Kosovo. For years now, Ukraine has refused to recognize Kosovo, maintaining friendly ties to Serbia. After the genocidal Russian occupation, Ukraine knows who the real friends are. Certainly not Putin-apologists.
I submitted to the Ukrainian Parliament a bill recognizing the independence of
#Kosovo
. Ukraine shares Western values and will support democracy anywhere in the world. I hope Ukraine will recognize
#Kosovo
's independence ASAP.
There’s this little village of Pjetërshan in
#Kosovo
, few kilometers from
#Gjakova
. Every year, villagers outdo themselves in decorating their village and the local
#Catholic
church with
#Christmas
lights. Happy holidays good folks of Pjetërshan!
Solovyov says “We’ll destroy
#Odessa
and then we’ll rebuild it.” It’s an echo of Serbian warlord Bozidar Vucurevic who, during the attack on Croatia, defended the criminal bombardment of Dubrovnik with the statement: “we’ll rebuild even older Dubrovnik”.
The first Ukrainian refugees arrive in
#Kosovo
. "We were impressed from the moment when we crossed the border and the Kosovo policemen offered us tea or coffee" -
Serbian team didn’t want to answer Neil’s question, but they’ll have to answer to
@FIFAcom
for putting a nationalist banner in their official FIFA locker room. If FIFA threatened “grave” sanctions for
#onelove
signs, what’s the sanction for putting extreme nationalist flags?
"I'm sorry the player won't answer that question"
I asked Serbia player Marko Grujic about the team's "no surrender" Kosovo flag....The question was shut down by their press officer...
#FIFAWorldCup
Yesterday, I accepted the next invitation from the court of Vranje, for the raising of the Albanian national flag, at the Albanian National Council, on November 28, 2020.
As other times, I am accused of "committing the offense of raising the national flag."
🧵 Djukanovic is one of the most important leaders in modern Balkans history. Kosovo & Albanians must eternally be grateful to him for providing refuge and safety to 1000s of refugees during Kosovo war, in difficult times when MNE itself was threatened by Milosevic. 🇽🇰 🇲🇪
I’m not quite sure how will EU handle China, Russia, AI - if it can’t handle 10 villages in north of Kosovo, inhabited with less people than a regular crowd in Plaça Reial on a rainy Tuesday in a cold November day. Also - careful with that word “extrajudicial”…
Very alarmed by situation in north of Kosovo: extrajudicial arrests of K-Serbs & Kosovo Security Forces marching in South Mitrovica; followed by heavy rhetoric from Serbia.
Despite yesterday's crisis meeting, escalation continues & is becoming dangerous. We will not tolerate it.
Supermarkets in Kosovo are obliged to put country of origin with prices tags.
#Ukraine
is in war but still manages to export chocolate bars to
#Kosovo
.
Sweet. The Kosovan edition of Croatia’s famous
#Bajadera
chocolates now have image of Kosovo soldiers raising Kosovo flag atop Goleshi mountain. 🇽🇰 🇭🇷 🍫
For EU audience,
#Serbia
President speaks of "Balkan Schengen". Reality is that Serbian police are maltreating Kosovo diaspora traveling to homeland for holidays. Today, every single passenger of every single bus was personally checked. Waiting time at border RKS-SRB now 8 hours.
Serbia cannot nor will dare to send soldiers to Kosovo. Their aim is not to start a war with
@nato
. They lost that war once. Kosovo won. Belgrade’s aim is to make Kosovo a failed state, not Serbia. It’s a trap. It’s been a trap from day one. We need full coordination with allies.
Short(ish) 🧵 on the current (dangerous) developments in Balkans. Vucic declared victory in every level of elections in Serbia. Even in tiniest municipality of Ljig, where he didn't win, he bought a section of opposition & intends to control the town. Same in capital Belgrade. -1
❗️This Sunday, Serbian newspaper Novosti, owned by the government of
#Serbia
, have a despicable front page claiming
#Ukraine
forces are killing their own people in
#Mariupol
: “Neonazis shooting rafale of bullets on the backs of civilians”
#StandWithUkraine
#StopRussia
Disturbing news: Kosovo newspapers report 26 polling numerators have become sick after handling votes from ballot boxes with distance voting envelopes from Serbia. Officials from CEC say skin and face rashes have developed soon after opening these boxes -
To all my Palestinian friends who are unhappy with Kosovo’s new relations with Israel - talk to your government. Palestinian authority is not a friend of
#Kosovo
. It has been extremely hostile to our independence & has lobbied against Kosovo’s membership to international org.