NATIONAL ELECTIONS 2001
LDK PROGRAM
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FREEDOM, INDEPENDENCE, DEMOCRACY
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STRONG ECONOMY, RULE OF LAW
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FULL SECURITY
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INTEGRATION INTO NATO
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INTEGRATION INTO EU
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SPECIAL RELATIONS WITH THE USA
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Dr. Ibrahim Rugova :
THE PROGRAM OF LDK IS THE PROGRAM OF THE PEOPLE OF
KOSOVA
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear citizens of Kosova,
Dear members, activists and sympathizers,
The holding of national elections 2001 shall
be a solemn event for all Kosova. It shall be a moment of expression of the
democratic will of the people of Kosova to elect their legitimate
representatives and the legitimate institutions of their state: the
Parliament, the Government, and the President of Kosova. It shall be a
solemn act, because the elections are held in free Kosova.
During the two and a half years after the war,
the people of Kosova have made great progress in all areas of life, together
with NATO, KFOR and UNMIK. Last year’s local elections had added to the
progress achieved in Kosova. The organization of national elections 2001
demonstrates that the time has come for greater progress to be made by
establishing a full democratic order and carrying out a gradual transfer of
power in cooperation with UNMIK.
These elections show that the time has come for the
recognition of the Independence of Kosova, and that the people of Kosova is
capable of building a democratic society and state, that it is capable of
building freedom.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The LDK Program for national elections 2001 --
which is presented to you -- is a comprehensive program, focussing on areas
of life. The LDK Program 2001 is the program of the people of Kosova; it is
Your Program, because it represents Your efforts and aspirations for Your
life, for Kosova.
This Program is a program of vision, an
operative, practical program for the building of the Kosovar state and
society. The foundations of the society and state of Kosova were laid down
with the Independence Declaration, the Constitution of the Republic of
Kosova (1990), the Independence Referendum (1991), the presidential and
parliamentary elections in 1992 and 1998, respectively, and have been
propped up with the resistance of the people of Kosova, protected by the
USA, NATO, EU and the international community.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The program we are presenting to you has for
practical reasons been divided into two parts: a) the national goals, which
are at once the goals of the LDK and Kosova itself, and b) the program
goals, encompassing all areas of life and their pragmatic realization. These
are the goals we are going to work on together to build a better life for
all, a better and safer future for the young generation, for our children.
The LDK program for the Kosova national
elections 2001 has been prepared by all professional sectors of experts of
diverse areas of life. For each and every chapter of this Program, the
Presidency and administration of the LDK have put together comprehensive
sector programs and detailed proposals for their implementation after the
elections.
We believe that this Program will be further
enriched during the election campaign to be organized by the LDK, its
sectors and local constituencies.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The LDK Program 2001 is a program of Your
choice and action. It is, therefore, a Program of Your Will, which we are
going to implement together.
The LDK Program is Your Program for the
building of a self-sustaining society and an independent, democratic, free
and prosperous state in the community of nations of the free world.
God bless Kosova and its great people!
Prishtina, October 2001
1. A representative Presidency expressing the unity of the people and citizens of Kosova
2. A democratic Parliament
3. An effective government with all the ministries
The
national goals of the LDK
· Independence of Kosova – to get it recognized as soon as possible
· Integration into NATO
· Integration into EU
· Special relations with the USA
· Good relations with neighboring countries
· Albanian integrations – economic, cultural and political -- to mutual interest
· Promotion of friendship with peoples of the region, Europe, and the world
· Work on designating the state symbols of Kosova
1. Stepping up efforts to secure an early formal recognition of the Independence of Kosova by the USA and the EU, which would calm down the region of Southeastern Europe and this part of the world
2. Stepping up moves to get full international support and aid for the building of democratic institutions in Kosova
3. Promoting good and friendly relations with the neighbors
4. Setting up Kosova representative offices in the USA, the EU countries, and other countries
5. Establishing bilateral relations with democratic countries
6. Training and specialization of diplomatic staff
7. Founding of a School of Administration and Diplomacy
8. Membership of Kosova in international economic and monetary institutions
9. Membership of Kosova in the OSCE and the UN
10. Making a case for advantages of foreign investors coming to Kosova
11. Promoting friendly relations internationally
12. Integration of Kosova into the OSCE, the EU
13. Promoting special friendly relations with the USA
14. Resumption of the work of the Center for International Studies
15. Affirmation of Kosova as a country of freedom, peace and prosperity in the international community
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1. Strengthening cooperation with NATO and KFOR, which defend/protect Kosova
2. Strengthening cooperation with UNMIK Police, which is charged with the civilian and public security of Kosova
3. Support for and development of the Kosova Police Service
4. Support for and development of the TMK [Kosova Protection Corps] in all its segments
5. Establishment of the Kosova Intelligence Agency
6. Combating crime and organized crime
7. Support for international action against organized crime and terrorism
8. Reinforcing control of the Kosova borders
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1. The citizen shall be at the heart of the Kosova democracy and society
2. Development and democratization of the legislative power
3. Preparation of new legislation in all fields of life according to international standards
4. Promoting the rule of law in protection of citizens, and legal security
5. Reform of the judiciary
6. Building an independent judiciary system
7. Complete division of the judiciary from the legislative and executive systems
8. Building an administrative system according to Western standards
9. Training and specialization of the judicial and legal staff at all levels
10. Membership of Kosova in institutions of international justice
11. Adoption of the Kosova Criminal Code and the Kosova Civil Code
12. Stepping up security for the judges
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1. Strengthening local government in all areas
2. Devolution of (central) power – defining the powers
3. Productive relations between central government and local government
4. Administrative and economic reintegration of the city of Mitrovica
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1. Supporting and encouraging NGOs, as well as their unimpeded operation
2. Supporting civic initiatives against violence, crime, etc.
3. Supporting civic initiatives for peace, reconciliation, and civil liberties
4. Full implementation of the European catalogue of human rights as well as other international documents
5. Support for the work and respect for the independence of Kosova’s Ombudsperson
6. Support for professional associations of citizens (the Association of Writers, the Association of Lawyers, etc.)
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1. Protection of ethnic groups and safeguarding their rights
2. Full integration of ethnic groups into the political, economic, and social life of the society-state of Kosova
3. Preservation and promotion of the national, cultural, and linguistic identity of ethnic groups, and respect for their tradition.
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1. Building a modern and efficient public administration at both central and local levels
2. Provision of efficient public services to the citizens
3. Close cooperation with UNMIK in the process of gradual transfer of powers in the field of internal affairs
4. Specialized training of staff
5. Association with European and international organizations of internal affairs
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1. Focussing on the economic development of Kosova
2. Shaping a macro-economic policy for Kosova
3. Open and free market economy
4. Strengthening of and providing incentives to the private sector
5. Gradual privatization of the state [public/socially-owned] economy and the founding of a Privatization Fund
6. Forming small and medium-sized companies
7. Creation of a stable budget, a central bank, and a fiscal policy with no high rates
8. Development of a stable banking system
9. Stable financing for all the Kosova institutions
10. Full transparency in public finances
11. Attracting donors for Kosova
12. Attracting and guaranteeing joint-venture investments
13. Possibility of issuing Euro with Kosova symbols – in agreement with EU institutions
14. Membership in the IMF, the World Bank, the European Bank for Development, as well as in other international financial institutions
15. Membership of Kosova in the Stability Pact
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1. Strengthening and development of the private industrial sector
2. Gradual privatization of the medium-sized industrial facilities of Kosova
3. Gradual recovery of the macro-industry (Trepça, Ferronikeli, Karaçeva)
4. Founding the Kosova Chamber of Industry
5. Providing incentives to the private sector’s construction industry
6. Gradual privatization of the state construction industry
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1. Proper maintenance and construction of new thermo-electric power generating plants on the basis of coal (Kosova has got 15 billion tons of reserves in coal)
2. Proper maintenance and construction of new hydroelectric power generating facilities (construction of hydroelectric power stations on the mountain rivers of Kosova)
3. Increased capacities for exporting electric power
4. Building heating capacities for Prishtina and Kosova from the Obiliq thermoelectric power plants, and possibilities for export
5. A positive assessment of nuclear energy resources in Kosova – reserves of uranium in Kosova (in Viti and elsewhere)
6. Construction and exploitation of alternative energy capacities:
a) geothermal energy (Rrafshi i Dukagjinit; in English the Dukagjini Plateau)
b) solar energy
c) wind energy
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1. Conducting new research work on the exploitation of oil
2. Conducting new research work on the exploitation of natural gas (Rrafshi i Dukagjinit – other parts of Kosova)
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1. Restarting the mining complex Trepça, Ferronikeli, Karaçeva, Magura, Gremnik, etc. (with hundreds of millions of tons of mineral reserves
2. Modernizing the mines, ensuring safety and security of mines
3. New research work on minerals – new potential reserves
4. Rational exploitation of mineral wealth
5. Preservation of mineral wealth
6. Possibility of exploiting bitumen in Viti area
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1. Promotion of a dynamic and competitive domestic commerce
2. Building stable relations in foreign trade based on Kosova’s interests
3. Membership in the World Trade Union
4. Founding of the Kosova Chamber of Commerce
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1. Reform of education at all the levels in accordance with the social and economic reforms in Kosova
2. Building an education system compatible with EU countries, the USA, and Canada
3. Establishment of a unified education system, regardless of ethnicity, social and religious background, sex, and political convictions
4. Reform of the University of Prishtina in keeping with the positive tradition that ensures integration and recognition internationally
5. Ensuring stability of the University and its autonomy, at the benefit of the economic and scientific development of Kosova
6. Establishment of a central education administration at the Ministry level
7. Establishment of an effective set of regulatory rules in the field of education
8. Enhancement of public institutions of education
9. Providing incentives to private educational institutions
10. Creating the possibilities for Western educational institutions in Kosova
11. Restructuring the education system: gymnasium [in the European sense], professional schools
12. Compulsory elementary education
13. Provision of incentives to and support for secondary level education
14. Offering special education, adult education
15. Designing curricula according to highest Western standards
16. Training of teaching staff
17. Providing opportunities for specialized training of teaching staff
18. Cooperation with international agencies in Kosova, SIDA, UNICEF, UNESCO
19. Encouragement of cooperation with Albania’s universities and the University of Tetova
20. Support for pre-school institutions: kindergartens, day nursery schools
21. Inclusion of the “Kosova Crystals” subject in schools – as an optional subject
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1. Continuing attention by the state for the Kosovar diaspora
2. Reaching agreements with respective countries about the diaspora
3. Ensuring the right for the diaspora to cultivate its tradition and the cultural and linguistic identity
4. Instruction in the Albanian language for the youth
5. Attention to the plight of the diaspora of ethnic groups
6. Organization of programs in the diaspora and Kosova
7. Guaranteeing the diaspora’s investment business in Kosova
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1. Development and further consolidation of the Kosova institutions of science and scholarship: Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts (ASHAK), Institute of Albanology, Institute of History
2. Reform of scientific/scholarship institutions in administrative, professional and financial respect
3. Establishment of private scientific institutions
4. Cooperation of Kosova scientific institutions with European, American and international counterparts
5. Founding an Institute of Cartography
6. Modernization of the Kosova Institute of Meteorology
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1. Encouraging innovations and the transfer of technology at the benefit of the Kosovar economy
2. Founding of the National Center for Technology
3. Registration of patents of innovations and their protection
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1. Central priority: creation of new jobs for the young people of Kosova
2. Providing incentives to the private sector towards employing young people
3. Turn-over of generations in the state economy by pensioning off [older staff]
4. Creation of a free and competitive labor market
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1. Establishment of a modern and functional public health system accessible to all citizens
2. Preventive medicine at all the levels of organization of public health
3. Specialized training of staff
4. Cooperation with international health institutions
5. Full health-care protection for children up to the age of 15
6. Full health-care protection for the elderly above 65 years of age
7. Full health-care protection for war veterans and their families
8. Full health-care protection for orphans
9. Full health-care protection for patients suffering from TBC and endemic diseases
10. Depoliticizing the professional, scientific and educational management of the public health sector
11. Development of state (public) and private health-care institutions
12. Development and integration of the health-care network in Kosova and integration into the World Health Organization (WHO)
13. Setting up special centers for the treatment of various dependencies, top medicine
14. Development of a network of counseling stations for mothers and children
15. Development of a network of centers for the care of elderly people
16. Development of a network for long-term accommodation of orphans
17. Continuation of rehabilitation of health institutions all over Kosova
18. Making permanent education of the medical staff compulsory
19. Getting the Faculty of Medicine fully operational and efficient in all its aspects (the health-care, educational, and scientific activities)
20. Energizing and expanding the pharmaceutical industry
21. Control of medicaments
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1. Social care for impoverished social strata
2. Consolidation of the Pension Fund
3. Care for war veterans
4. Care for disabled war veterans and disabled workers
5. Providing social welfare through supplementary employment
6. Care for the handicapped
7. Care for the blind
8. Care for families of martyrs and their children
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1. Maximum care for the family
2. Helping young families by job creation
3. Fostering family tradition
4. Preserving warm family relations
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1. Consolidation of cultural institutions
2. Strengthening cultural centers in the municipalities
3. Development and modernization of libraries
4. Development and modernization of professional and amateur theaters
5. Resumption of work of the “Kosovafilm” film studios, encouraging private filming activity
6. Encouraging private cultural institutions: private art galleries, music bands, etc.
7. Permanent care for the cultural heritage
8. Reconstruction of cultural-historic and religious monuments
9. Preservation of traditional technological monuments: grist mills, saw mills, fulling mills
10. Preservation of forts and kullas [Alb. ‘kulla’, fortified stone mansion of the northern Albanian Alps] and old urban and rural houses
11. Attracting donors
12. Cooperation with UNESCO
13. Support for publication of capital works
14. Encouragement of private publishing companies
15. Proper management of existing museums and opening of new ones
16. Protection of archeological sites
17. Conducting archeological research in cooperation with European and American institutions
18. Consolidation of the Kosova Symphonic Orchestra
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1. Ensuring continuing integration of the youth into the Kosovar society
2. Enhancing and promoting democratic, political culture: programs of training and education
3. Enhancing inter-ethnic, inter-religious and inter-cultural tolerance
4. Creating proper conditions for schooling and university studies
5. Opportunities for young people to study at Western universities
6. Providing stipends for students
7. Employment of young people in the public administration
8. Return of young experts from abroad to contribute to the development of Kosova
9. Keeping young people away from crime, drug addiction, and prostitution -- through programs and employment opportunities
10. Medical insurance and health protection for young people
11. Cooperation of Kosova youth organizations with international and Albanian youth organizations
12. Building a democratic national platform for the education and promotion of the young generation
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1. Resuming activity in all sports
2. Organization of new sports
3. Modernization of sports stadiums all over Kosova according to international standards
4. Building new stadiums
5. Membership in international organizations
6. Support for the Kosova Olympic Committee
7. Participation in summer and winter Olympic Games
8. Resuscitation of traditional games and sports
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1. Institutionalization of the role of women in the Kosovar society
2. Increasing participation of women in the economy: job creation programs, small businesses, loans
3. Development of relations with Western and international women’s organizations
4. Employment of women as a political priority
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1. Offering incentives to the private sector in agriculture
2. Offering incentives to family farms
3. Providing the agricultural system with industrial equipment
4. Modernization of production according to international standards
5. Offering incentives to the production of cereal grain (Kosova produces over 600.000 ton of wheat and corn, thus meeting Kosova’s needs)
6. Offering incentives to gardening and guaranteeing the market
7. Preservation of farming land
8. Offering incentives to industrial crops
9. Restoring existing irrigation capacities and building new ones
10. Restoring the food industry into operation
11. Provision of loans, subsidies
12. Possibilities of exporting agricultural products to Western markets
13. Gradual privatization of agricultural enterprises (Agrokosova)
14. Restoration into operation and proper maintenance of aerodromes for the needs of agriculture
15. Cultivation of rice in the fields of Prizren for official hospitality allowance
16. Reintroduction of the traditional fête “Darka e Lamës” [Harvest Supper], at the end of season of collection of agricultural products – (October)
17. Consolidation of the food industry of Kosova (Prizren, Peja, Ferizaj, etc.)
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1. Supplement the cattle stock damaged by the war
2. Starting stock farms in the private sector
3. Rearing horses of domestic breed
4. Support for family stock farming
5. Building flexible capacities for dairy products
6. Standardization of the Sharri traditional cheese, known in ancient times as “the Dardan cheese”
7. Rehabilitating existing facilities for meat production and building new ones
8. Possibilities of exporting white cheese to Western markets
9. Support for starting goat farms
10. Special care for the rearing of the Sharri dog and making it known internationally
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1. Loans for new poultry farms
2. Rehabilitation of existing farms and their privatization
3. Rearing traditional poultry that have been neglected so far: the goose, the turkey, the shelduck
4. Rehabilitation of facilities for poultry meat processing and building additional ones
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1. Continuous provision of incentives to food production
2. Control of food products
3. Resuscitating traditional cuisine – its modernization
4. Introduction of unique, traditional dishes, like butterfat-rich part of milk boiled with cheese; dairy products like solid yogurt [from which the liquid has been filtered off], thick milk, etc.
5. Modernization of the refreshing product made up of a mix of milk and snow, which is known as “tambëlborë” [‘milksnow’] in the Kosova mountain regions
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1. Revitalizing existing vineyards
2. Building new vineyards in the private sector
3. Gradual privatization of the vineyards currently in the state sector
4. Expanding capacities for wine production
5. Proper maintenance of existing facilities
6. Modernization of the wine production technology
7. Provision of incentives to the wine production as a branch of Kosovar export to other markets in Europe -- besides the existing export to Germany -- as well as to the USA and Japan
8. Building private wine cellars
9. Modernization of technologies for the production of other grape beverages
10. Provision of incentives for the production of traditional grape products: grape fruit paste, raisin.
11. Affirmation of the wine known as “Shira e Rahovecit” [‘Rahoveci must of grapes’], digestive must
12. Fixing a day as the wine and grape fête
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1. Building new plantations in the private sector
2. Gradual privatization of the plantations in the public sector
3. Growing new brands of fruit trees
4. Industrial processing of fruit products
5. Support for traditional products: apple fruit paste, pear fruit paste, pickled pears, etc.
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1. Promoting bee-keeping in the private sector
2. Support for Kosova bee-keepers
3. Modernization of the honey production – for export
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1. Stepping up security in the road, railway, and air transport(ation)
2. Proper maintenance of existing main roads
3. Extension of regional asphalt roads to the countryside
4. Extension and modernization of the Prishtina Airport
5. Construction of an additional airport
6. Possibilities of launching a Kosova airlines company in partnership with a strong European or American company
7. Construction of the Prishtina – Prizren – Durrës highway (securing an investor or company)
8. Establishment of a free zone in the Durrës seaport -- Agreement with Albania
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1. Building an efficient and secure postal system
2. Building and expanding terrestrial telephony
3. Expansion and consolidation of the mobile network with affordable prices in a competitive environment
4. Promotion of the development of the PTK as well as its accountability as a public company
5. Provision of incentives to the wide use of Internet in families, schools, scientific institutions, economy, and industry
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1. Creating conditions for a free press
2. Support for independent and private mass media
3. Increasing accountability for public statements
4. Founding of a Kosova News Agency
5. Support for the RTK [Radio Television of Kosova]
6. Starting a newspaper close to state institutions
7. Fair, transparent and timely information of citizens about the work of state institutions
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1. Preservation and proper management of forests
2. Forestalling damage to forests
3. Afforestation of new land
4. Designation of new national parks
5. Preservation of unique trees growing in Kosova alone
6. Preservation of medicinal plants (herbs) and their collection
7. Packaging mountain thyme
8. Production of curative beverage of Gentiana [‘lincur’, brandy to which Gentian root has been added], which was discovered by the Illyrian king Genti (Gentiana lutea) which grows in Albanian-Kosovar Alps
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1. Keeping rivers and lakes tidy and clean
2. Natural preservation of water resources
3. Irrigation system – so that most of arable land and meadowland be irrigated
4. Restoring the Ibër irrigation system in the Kosova plateau, Radoniq system in Dukagjini plateau
5. Construction of the Lepenc system
6. Provision of incentives for mineral water production
7. Provision of incentives for the production of spring water
8. Preservation of the unique watershed – the Nerodime (Ferizaj) bifurcation
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1. Conducting an organized and controlled hunting
2. Protection/preservation of rare species of animals: chamois (Sharr, Rugova), dark gray bear, hazel-grouse, turkey, and deer
3. Promotion of organized fishing
4. Modernization of fish ponds in Istog and at Radeva, near Sllatina-Prishtina
5. Multiplication of fish in rivers and artificial lakes
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1. Promotion of winter season tourism
2. Modernization of ski-runs in Sharr-Brezovica
3. Building new skiing centers in Rugova, the Kosova Alps
4. Launching summer season mountain tourism
5. Rural tourism
6. River tourism; building facilities
7. Tourism in artificial lakes: Batllava, Ibër, Radoniq – building of facilities, beaches
8. Tourism in natural lakes in Sharr, Rugova, Mokën
9. Agreement with Albania for Kosova holiday resorts in the Albanian riviera
10. Proper management, gradual privatization of hotels in state ownership
11. Encouraging Kosova hotel industry linking with chains of European and American hotels
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1. Revival of private, traditional craftsmanship
2. Craftsmanship in the role of preserving and promoting tradition
3. Craftsmanship in the function of job creation
4. Provision of incentives to plants for the processing of Kosova precious stones
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1. Creating a clean and healthy environment throughout Kosova
2. Modernization of the infrastructure in urban and rural areas
3. Elimination of pollution factors
4. Closing down the “Kosova A” power plant in Obiliq, an antiquated plant, which is the biggest polluter of Prishtina and the Kosova Plateau
5. Construction of new, modern thermoelectric power plants
6. Cleaning of rivers and lakes
7. Building storage places according to international standards
8. Maximum efforts to secure filters and modernize the Trepça complex in Mitrovica as well as the Cement Factory in Hani i Elezit
9. Preservation of the Mirusha Canyon, the Rugova Gorge, the Kaçanik Gorge, etc.
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1. Restoring state residences (Lipovica, Brezovica) to operation
2. Building new residences (Gërmia, Shalë e Bajgorës, Mirusha Canyon, Rugova, Dragash, Srecka, Karadak, by the riversides of Drini and Ibri in Albanik-Leposaviq)
3. Building the Residency of the President of Kosova – the Kosova White House
4. Allocation of land for the building of residences of diplomatic missions (Gërmia, Batllava, Ajvalia, etc.)
5. Building of the Independence House in Prishtina
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1. Drawing up a global physical plan for Kosova
2. Physical planning adjustments in the towns, preservation of urban tradition
3. Introduction of physical planning in the countryside, preservation of the rural tradition
4. Physical plans for all the towns, municipalities, settlements in Kosova
5. Bring illegal building to an end
6. With a good physical planning, Kosova will be more functional and more beautiful
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