Clear US: The legal obligation to be implemented includes resolving the dinar issue

In an interview with Voice of America, Escobar said association is the legal obligation to be implemented.

According to him, it includes resolving the dinar transfer issue transparently according to Kosovo laws.

“Yeah, there was two things about him. One is that the association, which is the legal obligation and is our position that it must be implemented, includes resolving the dinar transfer issue transparently under Kosovo laws. So we support him. So in other words, this is a problem that would have been solved with Association. Now we have some concerns about this: One is the sudden nature of changing laws. Thus, responsible institutions do not surprise their citizens with administrative changes that will ruin everyday life”, Escobar said.

He has sharply criticised the Kosovo Central Bank's decision on the new regulation to use cash, under which the euro is the only official currency in Kosovo HINA, thus excluding the Serbian dinar from circulation.

Escobar has said there are many problems in implementing this decision, including the failure to subject government options.

“So imagine if our internal income service would one day decide that it would change the tax system without any guidance or warning. This would create extraordinary riots for American businesses. Second, they have not contacted the affected community. So there is a group of people who depend on social payments from Serbia, who are suddenly surprised by this and there has been no communication, there has been no communication with them from Kosovo. The third is that Kosovo did not offer government alternatives. In other words, our embassy has been contacted by several people, including a woman in particular who depends on 100 percent on social payments to raise her disabled son, who has no capacity to travel to Serbia to get money and needs it to support her son, who has no alternative. So Kosovo has offered no government option. Kosovo dismissed Quinti's efforts, including the United States, to offer technical assistance to find a payment mechanism that would be transparent and electronic, but would not prejudge the lives of people who take them. The last part is, at the summit in Skopje, the six countries discussed developing a pay plan that would be in line with the European Union and would be implemented for the six countries. In other words, then, all they had to do was wait and receive a transparent system. So it is difficult not to look at this decision and criticize it”, Escobar said about VOA.