The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, met with representatives of the Croatian community in Kosovo on November 21.

According to the announcement, representatives of the Croatian community said that they need infrastructural support in Janjevë, a village in the municipality of Lipjan where, in addition to Croats, Albanians, Turks and Roma also live.

“Prime Minister Kurti expressed his willingness to work on ensuring the best possible conditions for the Croatian community in Kosovo”, it was said in the announcement of Kurti’s Office.

In Janjevë, many members of the Croatian community have left in recent years. Radio Free Europe reported last week that in this village, which was once a craft and trade center, there are now empty houses due to population migration.

At the beginning of the 90s, there were almost 5,000 Croats in Janjevë and today 150 of them live there.

In the meeting, representatives of the Croatian community and those of the executive also discussed the work of the Government in the full implementation of the Law on the use of languages ​​”so that non-majority communities have access to communications from the government”.

According to the laws in Kosovo, non-majority communities whose language is not official can use their mother tongue in localities where they are the majority of the population.

According to the Constitution of Kosovo, the official languages ​​are Albanian and Serbian.

However, the Croatian community is not recognized by the Constitution of Kosovo, which means that its members do not have guaranteed rights like other minority communities, nor their representatives in institutions./REL