SAA negotiating group meeting

This process will start this autumn and will conclude in Spring 2014.

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, asked all Ministers, Secretaries and Directors of other institutions to work harder. Thaci added that Kosovo has two priorities as regards the European Union integration. The first one is related to the SAA negotiation, and the second with the completion of the visa liberalization criteria.

“Kosovo has been and will always be unanimous as regards the European future, with a unity in the political spectrum and the citizens’ will of all ethnicities”, Thaci declared.

According to the government officials, the SAA agreement will have an international agreement character, and based on the experience of the other countries of the region, this agreement could mount to a material made of 500-800 pages.

The Kosovo European Integration Minister, Vlora Citaku, who will also be the negotiator of this process, showed how the negotiations will continue.

“As regards the negotiations and the working groups, so far we have coordinated our work with the European Commission, so that the negotiations can be divided in three groups. The working group for trade, the working group for making the legislation closer to the Eu, and the working groups for policies and cooperation. We expect the negotiations to start in Autumn 2013 and end in the next Spring”, Citaku declared.

On the other hand, speaking on the foreign policy, the head of the Kosovo diplomacy, Enver Hoxhaj, declared that his ministry is reviewing the foreign policy, as required in the feasibility study.

The SAA agreement is expected to be the first contractual agreement between Kosovo and the European Union, which will offer a new perspective to Kosovo’s European Union accession.

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