Minister Kelmendi is participating part in inter-ministerial conference of Western Balkan for of Justice and Internal Affairs issues

On the first day of inter-ministerial conference of Western Balkan of justice and home affairs issues, organized by the Swedish presidency of the rotating, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kosovo Mrs. Nekibe Kelmendi, took part in the discussion, in which dealt with themes of independence of the judiciary and prosecution, enhanced co-operation with Eurojust-in and the fight against corruption.
In her speech she said "under the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo, the judicial system in Kosovo is unique and indivisible, is an independent and impartial and ensures equal access to the courts for all citizens of Kosovo". 
Likewise, The Minister of Justice noted that the independence of the judiciary and prosecutors is guaranteed even under the operation of the Provisional Judicial prosecutorial Council and, a mechanism such that after adopting a package of laws, which will begin in justice reform , will be split between the judiciary and prosecution, with the establishment of the Judicial Council and Prosecutorial Council. 

As for expanding cooperation with Eurojust-in, Minister Kelmendi raised the issue of the need for coordinating the work with specialized international organizations to combat transnational crime, such as the Interpol, Europol, the, Eurojust, , Frontex, the and implementation of the European order for arrest. 
"Cooperation with these specialized organizations presents in itself a problem, so to avoid this problem I request to enable Kosovo the signing of a memorandum on mutual cooperation with concerned organizations on how to achieve the efficiency of the institutions of Kosovo in combating international crime, "added Minister Kelmendi. 

Taking part in the session, which was treated in the fight against corruption, Minister of Justice began her discussion with  counting of all laws, which are aimed at preventing and combating corruption, as one of the challenges raised in the Progress report 2009. At once she mentioned that international crimes and the crime of corruption mainly are investigated and judged by, judges and prosecutors of  EULEX, set as their competence according to the special law on the jurisdiction and powers for the selection of cases by judges and prosecutors of EULEX in cooperation with local prosecutors and judges. 
After the first day of the conference, at the request of its Minister of Justice was accepted by Jacques Barrot, vice president of the European Commission, Commissioner for Justice and Internal Affairs where they discussed the need for reforms in many areas and especially for reforms to the judiciary, Mr. Barrot stressed the need to strengthen the justice system as much, then strengthened immigration agreement with third countries, for which purpose promised sending a mission to Kosovo to support the reintegration of repatriated.
The Minister Kelmendi requested from  the Commissioner Baron that Kosovo also to be included in the liberalization of visa regime, justifying in details the need for liberalization of visas for citizens of Kosovo. Regarding visa liberalization Commissioner Barrot promised to Minister Kelmendi  that "they will be lobbing the lobby in some states to ease the criteria for issuing visas, especially for certain categories of citizens".

It is worth mentioning that the Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia Ivica Daqiq tried to politicize the conference, demanding that before any topic that will be addressed at the conference, at first should be heard the representative of UNMIK and Kosovo should be added UNMIK. When Minister Kelmendi insisted that to not happen this, then the organizer of the Conference urged that to remove from the table of all participants the names of state and ministers attending the conference, so  the Minister Kelmendi as all other participants discussed the topics that were subject to treatment in the conference. In a sign of revolt, Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia Daqiq got the floor  to the organizer and said will leave the  conference , however, with the insistence of the organizers,  he remained in the Conference room and took part in the discussion. 

During the break, in conversation with the organizer of the Conference Minister of Justice asked that Kosovo not to be blocked by Serbia' in  Regional Conference , and urged that to find a fair solution. Moreover since these conferences are not political, but are professional conferences, at the ministerial level or similar, on matters which are for all countries of the region, especially those of the Western Balkans.