Albin Kurti meets American campaigning for his release from Serbia's prison

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, who is staying in the United States, has announced that he has met American Alice James, founder of “Kosovo Action Network” (KAN), the organisation from which the Vetevendosje Movement was later born.

Kurti has said that Alice James had supported the protests of Kosovo students and that it was a powerful voice even for him when he was a political prisoner in Serbia along with friends.

“25 years later: Alice James, founder of Kosovo Action Network (KAN) that supported our student protests. Many young people from Kosovo have helped Alice train in the United States. And when we were political prisoners and prisoners of war in Serbia, she was campaigning international for our release”.

Nikoqir of the meeting was Kosovo's ambassador to the United States, Ilir Dugolli, of whom Kurti indicated he had joined him in the protests.

“At the embassy of the Republic of Kosovo in Washington D.C., our Ambassador Ilir Dugolli, who was on October 1, 1997, located in the second row near me and held the banner with the University of Pristina logo”, wrote Kurti.