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(3 years ago)Kosovo's government has awarded the company Avni Mustafaj, a friend of Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi, a contract. Mustafaj, who has a lobby company in the United States and through it, the Government of Kosovo aims to regulate the image in the US following recent sanctions. Saturday, Euronews Albania [...]
On Saturday, Euronews Albania has reported that the Kosovo government has engaged a lobby company in Washington, and in the document they refer to, it is quoted as saying that the lobby company paid by the Government of Kosovo by the amount of 147 thousand euros will offer strategic advice and foreign representation within the United States, Paparaci.com writes.
The contract, which reports Euronews Albania, was signed on 26 June between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the representative of the lobby company, Albanian-American Avni Mustafaj, has entered into force on 3 July and will be valid for one year.
As Paparac finds out.com, Avni Mustafaj is a close friend of Kosovo's first Deputy Prime Minister, Besnik Bislim. Mustafaj has been deputy director at the American University of Kosovo (AUK-RIT) And Bislim was a professor. Thus, according to Euronews reports, it would be that Besnik Bislim's friend was rewarded with a contract of approximately 150 thousand euros for lobbi.
The Kosovo government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora have been constantly criticised for lack of strategy and productivity in diplomacy as a result of which Kosovo has not received any recognition now and several years.
Thus, it seems that the European Union's recent sanctions and US-made measures towards Kosovo have mobilised little government to take steps in diplomatic strategy, but this has been done by rewarding capable people of power.
That happens at the very time when the government of Kosovo and the ruling party are facing several other scandals.
The publication of the wiretapping that applies to Vetevendosje party chief Mimoza Kusari finished on the phone with Serbian List MP who speaks on behalf of the northern criminal, Milan Radojicic, and Kusari's conversation with Radjici, the arrest of top party official Faruk Mujka, under suspicion of abuse of office while in the Mitrovica municipality of voting for the Minimal Law that leaves outside KLA veterans are just some of the issues facing the government.
What will be the explanation of the government that has rewarded Besnik Bislim's friend with the 150 thousand-euro lobby contract remains to be seen, but the Vetevendosje Movement is sharply criticised for failing to keep promises to eliminate corruption, nepotism and familiarism in the government.
