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Kosovo Roma Gazmen Salijevic, dismissed from the post of Deputy Minister of Communities and Returns by Prime Minister Albin Kurti

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti fired Gazmen Salijevic, the Deputy Minister of Communities and Returns. Why? Salijevic, who represented Roma from regions with a Serbian majority. Prime Minister Kurti was considered pro-Serbian. However, the situation becomes absurd when his replacement is a Serb favorite of Kurti, making Salijevic appear more "pro-Serbian" than the Serb who succeeded him.

Meanwhile, high-level negotiations on the role of Serbs in Kosovo's institutions are led by the EU and the US. But who defends the interests of Roma and their representatives like Gazmen in these discussions? Did the Serbs and Serbia reciprocate the loyalty shown by Kosovo's pro-Serbian Roma? Did the Albanians and Kosovo recognize the contributions and loyalty of their pro-Albanian Roma alliance

These circumstances highlight a critical issue: the Roma in Kosovo are torn between the Serbs and the Albanians. So who or what can unite Kosovo's Roma towards a distinctly pro-Roma agenda - one that is for their interests and their future.

A few days ago, Gazmen Salijevic announced on his FB profile: "Dear friends, I would like to inform you that today I have been dismissed from the position of Deputy Minister of Communities and Return." I will not say much about the government and the people who lead it, except that they have never shown any real interest in solving the Roma problem. Roma living in most Serbian municipalities are never seen as citizens of this society. but this should not break us, but strengthen us in the fight for the rights and interests of the Roma."

The European Parliament approved visa liberalization with Kosovo

Citizens of Kosovo should be able to enter the European Union without a visa in the future. Such plans received support from the European Parliament today (April 18).

The approval of the visa-free regime by the MEPs is an important step on the way to closer cooperation between Pristina and the EU, said MEP Theis Rutten, who led the European Parliament team in the negotiations on the new rules for entry into the Union.

According to the plans, by the end of next year at the latest, Kosovars should be able to stay in EU member states twice a year for 90 days without a visa. The same rule applies to EU citizens who want to travel to Kosovo.

The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement in principle on this issue back in December, and the EP has now given its formal consent. Kosovo is the only one of the six countries from the Western Balkans that still does not benefit from a visa-free regime with the EU.

In December, the government of Kosovo officially submitted a request to join the EU. The accession process is likely to be long and complicated. EU members Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Romania and Slovakia, as well as Serbia, refuse to recognize Kosovo's independence. Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in 2008, but is still considered a breakaway territory by Belgrade.

Young Roma people: Committee of EU Ministers issues recommendation to ensure their participation

The Committee of Ministers in EU recommends including systematically and explicitly the needs and priorities voiced by young Roma people in all policies, standards and programmes that impact them; assessing policies and democratic structures with the aim of redesigning them to ensure Roma youth’s effective participation, representation and inclusion. Combatting all forms and manifestations of structural anti-Roma racism and antigypsyism and their impact on Roma youth participation are necessary conditions to ensure young Roma people’s full and effective access to and fulfilment of all fundamental human rights and freedoms; including free and non-discriminatory access to quality education, training and employment opportunities for all young Roma people. 

The Committee of Ministers also recommends supporting and strengthening the capacity of Roma youth-led organisations, groups and initiatives and Roma youth-focused organisations and youth centres as spaces for exercising citizenship, promoting youth work and non-formal education/learning and for expressing and fostering their cultural identity, language, and history.  

All policies, measures and programmes related to this recommendation should respect the diversity of Roma communities addressing, in particular, the intersectional discrimination faced by Roma girls, Roma women, LGBTI+ Roma, Muslim Roma and young Roma people living in isolated and rural communities.  

Civil society, including mainstream youth councils and organisations, should be invited to contribute to the implementation and evaluation of this recommendation. The implementation of the recommendation will be examined every five years after its adoption.

Link: https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/young-roma-people-committee-of-ministers-issues-recommendation-to-ensure-their-participation%C2%A0?fbclid=IwAR22kTBuu8kUdnj3Jd28Wl77lYS9nun9pPk4iY8dP4_j_PAKcOaZ8G9yAYA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Во организација на РБИЦМ и Мрежата за системски и трајни решенија во Собранието на Р.Северна Македонија го одбележа 8 Април, Меѓународниот ден на Ромите

„8 Април е извор на темелните вредности за идентитетот и битието на Ромите од целиот свет„ беше меѓудругото напоменато за време на прославата која се одржа во Собранието на Р.С.Македонија. Организаторите заедно со Интерпартиската парламентарна група за поддршка на правата на Ромите, нивна инклузија и интеграција во Република Северна Македонија, заедно со Комитетот за односи меѓу заедниците, во четвртокот на 6 април го одбележаа Меѓународниот ден на Ромите - 8 Април.

Поздравни обраќања имаа Талат Џафери, претседател на Собранието на Република Северна Македонија; Љатифе Шиковска, претседателка на ИППГ за поддршка на правата на Ромите, нивна инклузија и интеграција во Република Северна Македонија и Арбана Пашоли, претседателка на Комитетот за односи меѓу заедниците. Пригодни видео-обраќања имаа и Антонио Гутереш, генерален секретар на Организацијата на обединетите нации и Роберта Мецола, претседателка на Европскиот парламент. Настанот се заокружи со свечено доделување на плакети за даден придонес во процесот на интеграција на Ромите во Република Северна Македонија од страна на Зоран Димов, претседател на ИРУ и претседател на Мрежата за застапување за системски и трајни решенија за интеграција на Ромите во општеството. На настанот присуствуваа пратеници, претставници од Владата, дипломатски кор и невладини здружанија. Истовремено во Кристалната сала имаше и презентација преку банери за историјата на Ромите како на интернационално така и на национално ниво поврзано со Ромите. Таа изложба ја продуцираше Зоран Димов, а изработен од страна

М- р Даниел Петровски и во асистенција со новинарот Рамуш Муарем. Инаку оваа прослава ја помогнаа Владата на Р,С.Македонија како и Собранието на Р.С.Македонија

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