MCYS allocated 50 thousand Euros for Kosovo Olympic Committee 2014

Today, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports allocated 50 thousand Euros for the Olympic Committee of Kosovo, as an annual budget for the organisation of the program for 2014. Therefore, today, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between MCYS and KOC.

The decision for allocating these means was made by Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Memli Krasniqi, in order to make KOC financially more independent and create opportunities for the implementation of the annual plan of KOC, as the highest sports body of the country

General Secretary, Veton Firzi has signed on behalf of MCYS, whereas, the Head Besim Hasani signed on behalf of KOC.

In the ceremony of signatures, present were also Minister Krasniqi as well as the members of the Executive Board of KOC.

The Minister said that this Memorandum marks a step forward prior to the complete functionalization of KOC and is a big proof for the support the state is providing to the sport.

“We supported KOC even earlier in every activity. But through these we are facilitating procedures and creating a budget basis, thus, making it easier for KOC to enforce its plan. The Memorandum is a step for the enforcement of our vision to allocate an annual budget for KOC and other sport federations. Soon, we shall finalise the Regulation on the sports classification, through which we could allocate the budget to each federation since the beginning of the year, based on the defined criteria by KOC” Minister Krasniqi stated.

In his turn, Head of KOC, Besim Hasani, highlighted that this is an extremely good cooperation between KOC and MCYS and this is in function on fulfilling the claims that Kosovo sport has.

“This Memorandum that is being signed today for changing the way of funding, is of significant importance, since together with the Executive Board we can plan all what we consider as priority, and a new period is beginning for sport”, Hasani stated, expressing ones gratitude to the Minister for his work and support he has given to the sport in general. He said that for the sport of Kosovo, and consequently, also for KOC, e new epoch is opened.

Based on this Memorandum, means of 50 thousand Euros shall be spent in some aspects, which are related to administration, organisation of activities within Kosovo and participation in international activities.