6 hours agoThaci presents himself as a statesman in Vienna with the book he allegedly paid with state money
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Many public life personalities in Austria have gathered today for promotion of the biographic book “State, Modern Stateman”, which speaks of President Hashim Thaci's life. Austrian Ambassadors Albert Rohan and Wolfgang Petrisch are expected to speak at this promotion. Also, special guests are President Thaci and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. Vienna [...]
Austrian Ambassadors Albert Rohan and Wolfgang Petrisch are expected to speak at this promotion. Also, special guests are President Thaci and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.
Vienna is the next European centre promoted by President Thaci's biographical book, since over the past two months the book written by two British writers Suzey Jagger and Roger Boys has also been promoted in Paris, France and London of Great Britain.
At the promotion of the book in Vienna, former Austrian Foreign Affairs Minister Albert Rohan said that “Hashim Thaci is a statesman”, as written in his biography book.
However, book “State, Modern Stateman” (New States, Modern Manship) has doubts that it is not paid with Kosovo president's personal money, but through public money.
A letter was issued in March that former Hague International Tributal Prosecutor Geoffrey Nice sent to the Government of Kosovo. There, Nice accused former Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, now president, of being indebted to him for the work he had done in his autobiographical book, writes Insader.
Nice said Hashim Thaci paid with state money the autobiographic book written by two journalists Suzy Jagger and Roger Boys.
In the communication of former British prosecutor and lawyer Nice with the current Government of Kosovo, he was saddened by the way he was ignored by Kosovo's institutions, though, he said, has owed over half a million euros.
I had no professional co-operation with the Government of Kosovo until Petrit Selimi contacted me and asked if I would work for Government. I agreed to the financial conditions that mım offered Selimi”, Nice wrote in a letter to the Government of Kosovo, Avni Arifi, the prime minister's chief of staff, respectively.
For several years, the English lawyer had committed himself to advising Thaci, had helped create a necessary material when the Special Court was living, and had helped him in a part of the president's biography book, which was now recently published.
I, asking for help, have helped the writers of Hashim Thaci's biobook, with the history of organ trafficking charges, thinking that the story was not just for Hashim Thaci, but for the people of Kosovo”, Nice had said in his letter to the government.
Nice, in his letter, revealed that he had worked with others under the government, including the writer of Thaci's biobook, Suzy Jagger, who also had to be paid.
According to this correspondence, what President Thaci wanted to present as a biographic book written by two foreign journalists was actually a book ordered and paid by him.
To do the job for Government, under the agreement, we have collaborated with others like Alan Donnelli and Suzy Jagger and also the Halilin” Pleats, wrote to the lawyer, the government. “We believe they're paid. If this has happened, we want to know why it has been done differently with us when we have had a key role in the work done with these individuals”.
President Thaci's autobiographical book has been written by two British journalists Susie Jaeger and Roger Boys.
