The EFAy has written to Prime Minister Mr. Hashim Thaçi of Kosova, welcoming his Governments declaration of independence on 17th February 2008 and supporting the right of the people of Kosova to self-determination.

At the same time, the EFAy strongly condemned the isolated acts of violence that followed this declaration and expressed its disappointment that Kosova’s independence was not unanimously recognised by all 27 Member-States of the European Union. Over the coming months the EFAy will be writing to those Member States who have not yet recognised Kosova’s independence and urging them to do so.

Moreover, the EFAy called for the highest standards of minority rights to be upheld for the non-majority ethnic groups in Kosovo, namely Serbs, Turks, Bosniaks and others, and called upon them to participate in Kosovo’s institutions peoples

The full text of the letter to Prime Minister Mr. Hashim Thaçi can be found here and the full text of the EFAy resolution this relates to can be found here.