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3 weeks in office and PM @albinkurti asks the #Kosovo Assembly to initiate the dissmisal of President @HashimThaciRKS. Says he breached the Constitution when signed a secret agreement with @NATO not to allow Kosovo Army in Serbian majority north. pic.twitter.com/cDPOyG71Dx

— Xhemajl Rexha (@xhemajl_rexha) February 26, 2020

Vlada Kosova, kako je saopštila, 15. marta će ukinuti taksu od sto odsto na sirovinske proizvode iz Srbije i Bosne i Hercegovine. Taksa će biti u potpunosti ukinuta počevši od 1. aprila u periodu od 90 dana, ako Srbija prekine kampanju za povlačenje priznanja nezavisnosti Kosova i obaveže se da će pokrenuti uklanjanje trgovinskih barijera sa Kosovom.

We do not support Prime Minister Kurti’s half measure. Our position is quite clear: the tariffs must be completely dropped. Mr Kurti is making a serious mistake - and that was made clear to President Thaci at the White House today.

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 27, 2020

Let’s focus on real life. Tariffs down and start solving issues important for our economies. Transit, Kosovo documentation recognotion for tenders, incliding KOS IT community in global value chains, promote KOS and SER as investment destination (working together )

— Marko Cadez (@cadezmarko) 27. фебруар 2020.

Iako je kosovski premijer Aljbin Kurti na vanrednoj konferenciji u Prištini rekao da je odluku o delimičnom ukidanju taksi dogovorio sa koalicionim partnerom Demokratskim savezom Kosova, zamenik kosovskog premijera Avdulah Hoti je demantovao ove navode, rekavši da Kurtijeva odluka o taksi nije dogovoren stav. Kaže da DSK neće ostati u vladi ako se porez ne ukine bezuslovno, prenosi KoSSev.

Tim Judah
@timjudah1

We could be approaching a crunch point in Kosovo - Serbia dialogue following the meeting yesterday in DC between @HashimThaciRKS  and Aleksandar Vucic.  @RichardGrenell  and Trump people would like to move quickly to a grand deal. Problem is that Thaci is a lame duck president...1/5

...who cannot deliver anything - unless he can lure the LDK to jump ship and bring down @albinkurti's government. Land swap was discussed plus of course instant lifting of tariffs without reciprocity. No Serbian recognition of Kosovo but Serbia would not prevent UN accession 2/5

and if that is the case then it is not expected Russia (or China) would veto. Not sure that would help with Vucic's election campaign but still. No discussion of Association of Serbian Municipalities but then no one will care about Serbs in KS if there is a land swap even if 3/5

majority remain in Kosovo. Thaci would like to hurry because his time is trickling to an end and I guess there might be some people in the PDK who want this & an end to @albinkurti  admin before any anti-corruption investigations kick in and even, because if they have reason 4/5

to fear the Specialist Chambers, then they might hope that cooperating on this with the Americans would give them some measure of protection. I am just speculating of course! Watch this space...5/5

Not sure that would help with Vucic's election campaign but still.