TIRANA, August 13 – The President of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski, has requested the sanctioning of the heads of the municipalities of Çairi and Tetova, for, as he said, there were ‘nationalist provocations that propose chauvinistic ideas of big countries’ during the visit of the Prime Minister of Kosovo Albin Kurti to Tetovo and Chair of Skopje on August 11.
Prime Minister Kurti stayed in these two municipalities inhabited by the Albanian population, at the invitation of the mayor of Çairi, Visar Ganiu, and that of Tetova, Bilal Kasemi. Kurti participated in the inauguration of a road called after Adem Demaçi in Çair, while in Tetovo he participated in the opening of a road in the Tetovo Highlands.
During this visit, Kurti and the head of Tetova also spoke about the need to open a tunnel with a length of about 6 kilometers, which would connect Tetova with Prizren. Kurti was welcomed with Albanian iconography, flags and other Albanian national symbols.
“The display of provocative nationalist iconography, which promotes chauvinistic ideas of large states, represents the incitement of hatred and ethnic intolerance, which undoubtedly violate the basic principles and values of the Framework Agreement as well as the concept of Macedonia as a multi-ethnic state,” it was said in the reaction of the Macedonian president, Stevo Pendarovski. He also reacted to “non-compliance with the Law on the use of state symbols of North Macedonia.”
“The organizers of public gatherings in Tetovo and Çair should be legally sanctioned for violating the legal provisions on the use of the national flag and anthem and the flags and symbols of the communities, completely ignoring the symbols of the state,” said the North Macedonian President. /argumentum.al
