Nearly 20 years after the war between Serbian forces and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian pro-independence rebels, this 59-year-old is delighted that the Trepca mining complex -- of which Stanterg is a part -- was nationalised late 2016.
The legislative elections of June 11 will not call into question this takeover: Kosovo's Albanians do not care at all about the anger of Belgrade, which considers itself the true owner of Trepca.
Mostly located in the ethnically-divided northern municipality of Mitrovica, Trepca was once one of the largest companies in Yugoslavia, at its peak employing 17,000 people, but now struggles to attract badly needed investment.
A shadow of its former self, with now roughly 4,000 jobs split between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, who work under separate but parallel management structures, the mines are still bitterly disputed by Kosovo and Serbia.
Kosovo, a former province of Serbia, is predominantly ethnic Albanian, and Mitrovica is sharply divided between an Albanian south and a Serb-dominated north.
The one thing the two sides have in common is high unemployment.
Last year, there were 2,200 applications for 100 jobs at Trepca, according to Hilmi Haxha, Albanian chief financial officer at the mines.
In 1989, shortly before Yugoslavia began to tear apart into conflict, Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic suspended Kosovo's autonomy.
Poles, Bulgarians, Bosnians and Montenegrins were brought to replace them. Kurti returned in March 2001, after the war and two years of rehabilitation of the mine, which, according to Albanians, had been flooded by Serbs as they fled the area.
In support of its position on the mines' ownership, Belgrade points to its investments in the complex and the fact that Trepca was Yugoslav property.
Rich in zinc and lead, the mine -- exploited since antiquity -- contains some 60 minerals, including gold and silver. In 2016, 13,000 tonnes of mineral concentrates sold abroad yielded 15 million euros.