Hovenier explains how serious O'Brien's threat to Kosovo is: He does the work that Holbrooke did in the 1990s.

US Assistant Secretary of State James O'Brien called on Tuesday for immediate withdrawal from actions to implement the new regulation removing the Serbian dinar from use. Kosovo government called it weak and unable to serve citizens and maintain the partnership. He said the Kosovo government has questioned the partnership with the closest ally, while stressing that “if we are not treated as partner, we will not treat the Kosovo government as partner”.

Hüvenier tried to explain how serious this is that O'Brien said in an interview for the Voice of America, recalling besides, that he is his boss and American envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar. For the diplomat, who has been serving in American diplomacy for over three decades, Havenier stressed that he does the work Richard Holbrooke did in the years of CHA90, negotiating the Dayton Agreement that ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

It's very rare for Assistant Secretary of State Jim O'Brien now, but to remind you how important that is when we were negotiating the Dayton Agreement, which Ambassador Holbrooke held at the time as Secretary of State for Europe. So Jim O'brien now holds the work Rich Holbrooke kept in the mid-1990s doing Dayton. So, for that individual, the chief of Escobar, my boss, to give an interview with ours and the content he gave... This is very rare”, said Havenier.