5 hours agoHoxhaj: Tax not set to prevent dialog
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The Kosovo Government's decision on increasing customs duties 100 per cent for products imported from Serbia has to do with Kosovo's approach to Serbia, but that does not mean that Kosovo will abandon dialogue with this country, Kosovo Government officials confirm. Enver Hoxhaj, Kosovo deputy prime minister, says [...]
Enver Hoxhaj, Kosovo deputy prime minister, tells Radio Free Europe that Kosovo trusts dialogue and believes the European Union that it could be crucial to normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia. But, as he points out, not only on the condition that Serbia pretends to have normal reports with Kosovo only when it comes to using it as an economic colony.
Deputy Prime Minister Hoxhaj says the Government's decision on increasing 100 per cent of the customs tax on Serbia's products is not oriented against dialogue.
The “will have no direct impact on dialogue, it has to do with a campaign which Serbia is doing aggressively in relation to Kosovo, exercising diplomatic aggression. It concerns a hostile policy Serbia is following in relation to the state of Kosovo in the Balkans. For this, we must, as in every country in the world, use instruments, economic measures, in order to protect our sovereignty and achieve concrete effects on foreign policy”, Hoxhaj points out.
But, political affairs connoisseur Milazim Krasniqi, chief of the Journalial Department at the University of Pristina, speaking of Radio Free Europe, suggests that if the move taken by the Government of Kosovo for Serbian imported products manages to block the current form of dialogue, which, according to him, has been fruitless and harmful to Kosovo, Kosovo's gain will be greater on the political level than in the amount of financial tax added.
