President Rama-Hajrizi addressed an occasional speech at the annual meeting of judges and prosecutors

The President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo, Mrs. Arta Rama-Hajrizi, participated in the annual meeting of the Forum of Judges and Prosecutors of the Republic of Kosovo, which this year was organized at the Emerald Hotel in Prishtina, with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Kosovo.

In the speech addressed before representatives of the prosecution and regular courts, as well as accredited diplomats in the country, President Rama-Hajrizi mainly discussed about the opportunities available to prosecutors and regular courts to avoid violations of human rights and consequently reduce the number of individual referrals with allegations of violation of human rights before the Constitutional Court.

Among others, President Rama-Hajrizi said that, “although the Constitution has designated the Constitutional Court as the ultimate authority for the final interpretation of the Constitution, other public authorities, including the prosecution and the regular courts, are undoubtedly at the forefront in protecting the Constitution”. According to her, “the Constitutional Court declares over 90 percent of applicants’ referrals, requesting constitutional review of a regular courts’ decision, inadmissible. In other words, this means that the Constitutional Court confirms the constitutionality of decisions of the regular courts in over 90 percent of cases”.

In her conclusion of the speech, President Rama-Hajrizi asserted that a broad reasoning of indictment and its support with proofs and evidence by the prosecution, as well as a grounded reasoning of court decisions in relation to allegations of parties, provide the safest guarantee for avoiding violations of human rights and freedoms in a court trial.