5 minutes agoThe tax ideal prays to the prime minister: Suspend him
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Enver Hoxhaj has again called for the 100 per cent tax on Serbian and Bosnian goods to be suspended in order to pave the way for dialogue, Periscopi reports. Hoxhaj has demanded that Kosovo use the historic moment of international attention for reaching a final agreement with Serbia. Use this moment [...]
Hoxhaj has demanded that Kosovo use the historic moment of international attention for reaching a final agreement with Serbia.
We use this historic moment. We should not miss this great historic opportunity. The tax should be suspended. We should not reduce foreign policy to a tax. If the tax were the way up to recognising Kosovo from Serbia, then we would decide in 2008 when we declared independence. We have to suspend the tax temporarily, for example for three months, to see how this issue is moving. Tax is a tool and not a goal. Our aim is mutual recognition, but the tax remains only a” tool, Hoxhaj said.
Hoxhaj said the tax was intended to stop Serbia's aggressive campaign against Kosovo in diplomacy.
But until there was no criticism from the international Hoxhaj, the tax idea called it exclusive.
He even beat the chest for establishing this tax, which he says they proposed to Prime Minister Haradinaj along with party chairman Kadri Veselin, in response to Serbia's diplomatic fight.
But, faced with American pressure on the tax issue, the deputy prime minister backed from trying to get the credit for the tax.
He shows up in the act of coward when it comes to protecting an idea that once stood up as his own.
Hoxhaj as the pretext for suspending the tax now uses international visits and pressure, which conveyed such a message that there is no more historic year with greater potential for reaching a final agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, with the EU's mediation.
“Taxa is not set with the idea of Serbia recognising Kosovo. I'm the one who gave the idea of taxing. The idea was supported by Prime Minister Haradinaj and by President Veselin”, Hoxhaj had said to take the decision to impose the tax.
But once international criticisms, such as American and European officials, began, Hoxhaj was silent.
It no longer protects the idea of this tax, which is hindering the dialogue process.
Even representatives of his party were the first to propose its suspension.
Months ago Periscope had reported how Hoxhaj received credit for the tax on Serbian products, which he had promoted to the Business Fair that was held last year in Kosovo, where he had enjoyed Serbian raki along with Serbia's chairman of the Economic House./ P ERISCOPIA
