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Albin Kurti is the incumbent Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, an office he has held since 22 March 2021. He previously served in that role between February and June 2020. He is also the President of Kosovo’s biggest political party Lëvizja Vetëvendosje. Kurti came to prominence in 1997 as the Vice-President of the University of Pristina Student Union, and organizer of non-violent demonstrations in 1997 and 1998. His role as Prime Minister of Kosovo is perceived as an essential factor of stability in the Western Balkans. Mr Kurti has pushed hard for Kosovo’s international recognition in the EU, the finalisation of the Kosovan-Serbian dialogue, as well as significant domestic reforms.
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[@GjekSelca]

All the Servian Bots here wishing their leader was as eloquent and fluent in English lol

[@snrosh]

His English is impressively articulate for a foreign leader

[@thorgunderson-theswede86]

He is married to a beautiful Norwegian woman and has a beautiful family❤🇦🇱 🇳🇴

[@bloodaid]

Albanian 👐🇽🇰🇦🇱🦅

[@filipjovanovic]

This man is so normal, it's a pleasure to listen to him. Because people love logic. We in Serbia are used to being manipulated and lied by politicians. Where logic stops, Serbia begins. In Serbia, politicians think one thing, talk another, do a third, and want a fourth. While Albin Kurti thinks the same, talks the same, does the same and wants the same. Great support from me from Serbia. Albin Kurti, I love you and I would give my life for your life. Kosovo is an independent country and friendly contry unlike Serbia 🇽🇰❤️ 🇷🇸🤮

[@charlesdr1981]

Thank you .

[@Wolfgetshigh]

lol, cringe of a comment bot doing what they've been made for

[@petarpetrovic571]

Of course you are COVID vaccinated

[@biljanakocanovic6778]

Filip, are you well, perhaps you are one of those provocateurs...?????

[@Enimo17]

​@@biljanakocanovic6778 Open your eyes.....he is ✅

[@fufu1405]

The discussion about Russia was on point! Serbia is a mini Russia.

[@BigBoss-lh9co]

The best prime minister ever for Kosovo. Everything he said is true. God bless you Albin Kurti.

[@bloodaid]

I am afraid that after Mr Kurti, Kosovo will degrade

[@__Aurora__]

In these dark and overcast times for the powder keg called the Western Balkans, prime minister Kurti is certainly a breath of fresh air. Eloquent, educated, calm and logical. Kosovo 🇽🇰 as a country should be very proud of having him.

[@Wolfgetshigh]

you are disinformed

[@psvliberetion89]

Why do you think that the West supports the Albanians!? The USA and UK, Europe know exactly what has happened to the Serbs since 1906. In 1918 63% of all Serbs were killed, partly by genocide! In 1949, 65% of Serbs were killed, 50% of them by genocide in the cruelest Jasenovac concentration camp. Iraq, Afghanistan, were friends of the USA, including Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic, whose elections were financed by the USA and the West!!! Until Slobodan Milosevic, there were Catholics who ruled Yugoslavia. Josip Bros Tito was a Croat, he gave you asylum and the right to stay, even though you shot the Serbs in the back in the First and Second World Wars, the Serbs always gave you a new chance. I want to tell you: Don't expect help and sit down at the negotiating table with the Serbs, because it is too late. Kosovo costs four times as much as Serbia combined, we have our allies because there is a lack of territory. India, China, Pakistan, they were given a homeland by Serbia in 1906, all of Albania was Serbia, and no, they are not the Ilyrians, but Albanians from Georgia, more precisely from the Albania Mountains in the Caucasus. We Serbs are Ilyrians and Byzantines Greek Orthodox Christians and if you want to know more about it!!! The West wants to swap territories with the Islamic states, which is why Germania is flooded and these refugees are financed by the entire West. Where all the riches on earth are, they also want the dismantling of Russia, but they have miscalculated with their 90s technology, Iran and China, Russia is in the fast lane. Ask me if you want to know why the West still supports the KLA.

[@fbenbow2197]

Being populistic is a necessary prerequisite for democracy, polemics are bad for democracy. One person, one vote. Many other interesting and informative points in this speech.

[@TheLivirus]

Some very wise words from Albin regarding prerequisites and measures of democracy. A particularly good point regarding populism in democracies.

[@TURE1215]

Yeah this guy is very wise, thats why u dont know shit about whats hapening in balkans

[@TheLivirus]

@@TURE1215 Inform me...

[@olamel6120]

he is brilliant, an extraordinarily high intellectual capacity, actually a rarity in politics

[@biljanakocanovic6778]

🤣@@olamel6120

[@sirairili1570]

I wanted to hear more discussion (Q & A) with the audience. Id love to hear the perspective of young and bright Brits regarding the politics surrounding Kosova. Greetings from Kosova.

[@biljanakocanovic6778]

🤣🤣🤣

[@dardan2058]

This man has made Europe more aware of things going on in the world. Best Prime Minister ever.

[@mike197601]

get a better mod...pink hat guy is awful.

[@milimili6588]

God Bless Kosovo and USA Friendship

[@psvliberetion89]

Give Alaska back to Russia

[@thorgunderson-theswede86]

​@@psvliberetion89why.. they SOLD it. 😂😂😂

[@psvliberetion89]

Iraq, Afghanistan, were friends of the USA, including Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic whose elections were financed by the USA and the West!!! Until Slobodan Milosevic there were Catholics who ruled Yugoslavia Josip Bros Tito was a Croat he gave you asylum and the right to stay, despite the fact that you shot the Serbs in the back in the First and Second World Wars, the Serbs always gave you all a new chance. What I want to tell you is don't expect any help and sit down at the negotiating table with the Serbs because it's too late. Kosovo costs 4 times as much as Serbia combined, we have our allies because there is a lack of territory. India China Pakistan, you got a homeland from Serbia in 1906, all of Albania was Serbia, and no you are not the Ilyrians but Albanians from Georgia, more precisely from the Albania mountain range in the Caucasus. We Serbs are Ilyrians and Byzantines Greek Orthodox Christians and if you want to know more about it!!! The West wants to exchange territories with the Islamic states, which is why Germania is being flooded and these refugees are being financed by the entire West. Where all the riches on earth are, they also want Russia to be dismantled, but they have miscalculated with their 90s technology, Iran and China, Russia is in the fast lane.

[@psvliberetion89]

@@thorgunderson-theswede86 Iraq, Afghanistan, were friends of the USA, including Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic whose elections were financed by the USA and the West!!! Until Slobodan Milosevic there were Catholics who ruled Yugoslavia Josip Bros Tito was a Croat he gave you asylum and the right to stay, despite the fact that you shot the Serbs in the back in the First and Second World Wars, the Serbs always gave you all a new chance. What I want to tell you is don't expect any help and sit down at the negotiating table with the Serbs because it's too late. Kosovo costs 4 times as much as Serbia combined, we have our allies because there is a lack of territory. India China Pakistan, you got a homeland from Serbia in 1906, all of Albania was Serbia, and no you are not the Ilyrians but Albanians from Georgia, more precisely from the Albania mountain range in the Caucasus. We Serbs are Ilyrians and Byzantines Greek Orthodox Christians and if you want to know more about it!!! The West wants to exchange territories with the Islamic states, which is why Germania is being flooded and these refugees are being financed by the entire West. Where all the riches on earth are, they also want Russia to be dismantled, but they have miscalculated with their 90s technology, Iran and China, Russia is in the fast lane.

[@tonyalb3863]

@@psvliberetion89 is very simple spend 400$ and do a DNA Haplo test ! quit claiming serbs are Illyrians ! Serbian govt has a DNA Haplo Data web , and majority of Serbs , their DNA is same as Tatars and Russians along with turkish % Unless you have results/proof otherwise , you chasing a golden goose

[@rebelativa7974]

Long live Republic of Kosovo long live Dardania land (Long live Illyria from Dalmatia to Janina Epirus )Long live our Beautiful Unike Language 🇦🇱♥️👐🏻

[@balkanhajduk]

Albanians where slaves brought over by the Romans through Karkakas

[@biljanakocanovic6778]

🤣🤣🤣

[@psvliberetion89]

Never the Boss from Kosovo is Russia and China

[@shkurtealimusaj7188]

Lum kosova qe tka ❤❤❤❤

[@kurdsehirja4533]

tqiiiift nbioth

[@psvliberetion89]

Jo Kosova ! Kosovo Serbisht 100%

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

'They don't acknowledge crimes of the past'. Need I say more.

[@biljanakocanovic6778]

Ajaajajajaj

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

@@biljanakocanovic6778 Good on you Bill.

[@biljanakocanovic6778]

🙂@@australiaprisonisland9156

[@balban7144]

Prime minister of Albanians bravo 👏

[@psvliberetion89]

Bravo for what is a Nacist

[@robolinoschmidt8676]

The best prime minister kosova ever had 🫡

[@psvliberetion89]

Prime a Naci no good Kosovo is Multi ethnic

[@Six.Stars6s]

🇦🇱🇽🇰

[@psvliberetion89]

The Days from USA and NATO is ending China is the New World Order Police Country USA have no good Millitary equipment Iran is Stronger 10x Cheers from serbia

[@serbiatone]

Satu Molnár

[@ajetiajeti2126]

The best prime minister.

[@liridondardania3571]

👏👏

[@petarpetrov6388]

State?!? Realy?

[@nashdale6715]

It is Petro

[@jetondemaj2816]

No, north south west east macedonia is???

[@blerimsadiku9984]

Yes a state

[@biljanakocanovic6778]

🤣😂🤣@@nashdale6715

[@psvliberetion89]

If it's 92% Albanians!? then where are the Greeks Turks Traker Eghypter, Serbs Goraner Muslims Montenegro Bosnians make up these 8% or what's the matter with you people!? Some things can't be right. 8% should have all other ethnic groups together. Thank you.

[@thorgunderson-theswede86]

Wait.. what😂😂😂😂have you eaten to much slavic propaganda kake or what.😂😂😂

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

264 Euro's per calendar month.

[@PrizrenaliZH]

bro, we are struggling here in Kosova. Dont laugh at us, rather help us improve our heavily corrupted economy. Albin Kurti, I believe, did a good job already. Also its in our hands. we have to rise as people. 264 is better than 170, we had earlier. poverty is real where I am from. i am glad for you, you have more than that.

[@bashkimwestcoast5317]

@@PrizrenaliZH A very smart Answer bro iwish u people the best there and hope we will become together a better future

[@PrizrenaliZH]

We, the practicing Muslim Albanians of Kosova, support our Prime Minister. Still we dont want this lies about freedom of sexuality to be equalized with ethnic or religious minorities. Most Albanians, even those who are not too religious, are against same sex marriage in our country. That doesnt mean homosexuals to be treated badly. it just does mean allowing same sex marriage to be the base for allowing them to raise adopted children in that ill environment. stats from psychological literature of the past 70 years prove me right. kids develop much worse in same sex marriage as in traditional families. saving the well of our countries children is much more important than self fullfilment of a sick minority. I hope Albins party to recognize this and to not change the law in this regard. gays should have their rights but should not touch our children! we do t want to support child molesters in our country like most of our fellow European countries do.

[@sirairili1570]

We the people of Kosova dont care what religion or sexual preference you have. We are a secular. This is what the great majority of Albanians believe in and this is what we fought for..that is all people to have equal rights.

[@PrizrenaliZH]

@@sirairili1570 you the people?! You are a small unwell educated minority of students in Prishtinë. Prishtinë is not representing Kosova. Not to mention the deep infiltration by Serbians from the very start when they founded your city without a river. Tell me another city in Europe without a river! Përshendetje prej Prizrenit. Here is the point where your true face gets uncovered. Most Albanians are not leftists. We are witnessing the downfall of Western Countries and still we kill ourselves to be recognized by them. To enter their elite union. There is no problem with being traditional. The whole world is waking up and fights for conservative rights. One last thing: what did you fight for?! Show me one UCK soldier who fought for homosexuals to adopt Albanian children!

[@soul8938]

@@PrizrenaliZH you can try to spread your backwards beliefs as much as you want the simple fact that you bring up studies post ww2 era where people would get lobotomized for absurd reasons just shows how uneducated and emotionally charged your mindset is. The question isn’t even about adoption for the moment but a simple hypothetical might prove enough would you rather an orphan live alone on the streets or in an orphanage until he gets kicked out (with a proven 90% Chance of becoming criminals and drug addicts) or let them be adopted by a same gender couple?

[@PrizrenaliZH]

@@soul8938 First of all, I am not referring to post ww2 studies, but studies from psychoanalytic literature used in modern Universities classes. Second: how am I emotionally and uneducated while bringing facts and proofs. The uneducated and emotionally charged of the two of us clearly is you. And back to your question: giving orphans to homosexuals has been tried in Berlins 1970s. Read about the Kentler Experiment! Helmut Kentler and his friends did rape hundrets of teenagers in the duty of the German state. So, no. Giving orphans away to homosexuals is definitelly not the solution!

[@soul8938]

@@PrizrenaliZH the fact that you compare all homosexuals to someone like Kentler says enough. You can barely call that an experiment it’s just a gross lack of action by the german government that they even let someone who has openly sick and twisted morals and worldview as him near minors is awful. By your emotionally charged logic its the same as if someone let kids around someone like jeffrey dahmer and came to the conclusion white people are psychopath cannibals

[@biljanakocanovic6778]

🤣😂🤣🤣🤣

[@mutatis-mutandis]

You should have brought Behgjet Pacolli, the money behind this one.

[@PrizrenaliZH]

hmm? as a citizen of Kosova, I have to say, I never heard such a wild accusation. Pacolli is financing Kurti?! can you prove such comments?

[@Stolencamaro]

Heartbreaking that somone can just anex serbia and its territory

[@shiptarkosovari6398]

Today Serbia it's on the Ylirian land ,so šššttttt

[@biljanakocanovic6778]

@@shiptarkosovari6398

[@thorgunderson-theswede86]

Sure. Saying a slav who came to that land in the 11's century. You just a thief who had to give back what you stole. And now you have no face.

[@dannicus9774]

UN-Resolution 1244 nuff said.

[@MilIMeta]

Serb detected

[@cbboom1474]

And what does it say

[@capsulecorp4503]

If you return to Siberia, Russia, we ll support the deportation back to the place you came from

[@australiaprisonisland9156]

1244 was with Yugoslavia not Serbia. Enough said.

[@dannicus9774]

@@australiaprisonisland9156 Serbia is the legal successor of all the Yugoslavias that existed, that's like the basics of law. But who needs law and order if you can have WW3 if this continues like that in the world.

[@psvliberetion89]

Iraq, Afghanistan, were friends of the USA, including Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic whose elections were financed by the USA and the West!!! Until Slobodan Milosevic there were Catholics who ruled Yugoslavia Josip Bros Tito was a Croat he gave you asylum and the right to stay, despite the fact that you shot the Serbs in the back in the First and Second World Wars, the Serbs always gave you all a new chance. What I want to tell you is don't expect any help and sit down at the negotiating table with the Serbs because it's too late. Kosovo costs 4 times as much as Serbia combined, we have our allies because there is a lack of territory. India China Pakistan, you got a homeland from Serbia in 1906, all of Albania was Serbia, and no you are not the Ilyrians but Albanians from Georgia, more precisely from the Albania mountain range in the Caucasus. We Serbs are Ilyrians and Byzantines Greek Orthodox Christians and if you want to know more about it!!! The West wants to exchange territories with the Islamic states, which is why Germania is being flooded and these refugees are being financed by the entire West. Where all the riches on earth are, they also want Russia to be dismantled, but they have miscalculated with their 90s technology, Iran and China, Russia is in the fast lane.

[@gigja007]

😂😂😂😂😂 which book did you read 😂😂😂😂😂 serbs are no ilyrians Albanian ate. Serbs came from karpats (rusia) but I understand your filings you have no history 😅😅😅😅

[@tonyalb3863]

Albin , our true leader 🇽🇰🇦🇱

[@balkanhajduk]

Kosovo and Metohija belongs to Serbia and Montenegro. UN resolution 1244. What Russia is doing to Ukraine is what NATO did to Serbian holly province of Kosovo and Metohija in 1999

[@nashdale6715]

Kosova belongs to the people who live in there

[@cbboom1474]

Keep living in your fantasy

[@Afer-Dita-]

Nothing is holy about Kosovo , the fact is it’s been Albanian territory, someone to occupie is not holly . We been there and never left you instead Slavic are Guests in the Balkan nothing else and always will remain like that .

[@cbboom1474]

@@Afer-Dita- I agree with a lot

[@Afer-Dita-]

Serbia genocides Croatia Serbia genocides Bosnia Serbia genocides Kosovo Albanians So where is here the error ? Your othodox religion is more of satanic and not holly .

[@kurdiseherbaz4878]

Sima Pandurović (Сима Пандуровић; 14 April 1883 - 27 August 1960) was a Serbian poet, Ermali i biri i qitina 100% shka i shipcizun