9 minutes agoVeselin says tax remains, however, wants to be suspended
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The customs fee on Serbia's goods “is set for Kosovo's benefit, and it must not turn against the good of Kosovo”, Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veselini said, at the same time chairman of the Democratic Party of Kosovo. “E we've set the 100 per cent fee on Serbian products and goods because Serbia [...]
“E we have placed the 100 per cent fee on Serbian products and goods because Serbia has imposed such a measure on us and the tariff will stand”, Veselin said.
He made these comments during his visit to an elementary school in Ferizaj.
However, Wessel, alluding to his proposal for a suspension of the Kosovo Government's customs duty decision for 120 days, said the proposal is concrete, given the United States' request.
But, according to him, this would only be a temporary measure, while Kosovo institutions would start actions to stop entering goods in Kosovo with Metohija's “and Metohija” inscription, as well as without respect for Kosovo institutions.
Wessel said that in this direction it is working intensively and that “Kosovo and the United States of America dare not have different positions in front of Serbia”.
The Kosovo government, on 21 November last year, has imposed a 100% customs tax on products imported from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Serbia's authorities have said they will not continue dialogue with Kosovo, in the event the tax on Serbia's products is not removed by the Government of Kosovo.
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has so far insisted that this tax is not lifted.
The United States of America and the European Union have asked Kosovo institutions to suspend this decision, even temporarily, in order to pave the way for continuing dialogue in Brussels, between Kosovo and Serbia, for normalising relations between the two countries.
