10 minutes agoDAS calls: Discussions about the dinar must continue with urgency
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)Discussions about the dinar should continue urgently, US State Department Deputy President Vedant Patel said on Tuesday. He made that statement when he was asked at a media conference regarding Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani's statement, made the day before, that a part of [...] has been reached.
Discussions about the dinar should continue urgently, US State Department Deputy President Vedant Patel said on Tuesday.
He made that statement when he was asked at a media conference regarding Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani's statement, made the day before, that a part of the compatibility for the American proposal for the work of the dinar has been reached.
The United States and the European Union have expressed concern over the Kosovo authorities' decision to implement Kosovo Central Bank's new pre-launching regulation on 1 February (BQK), which defines the euro as the only currency for cash payments.
Thus, Kosovo Serbs have been unable to use the Serbian dinar.
Serbia claims it shares aid worth millions of euros to the Serb community in Kosovo and pays them salaries, pensions and additional aid.
Osmani has said that even the international community agrees that Serbia's aid should reach Kosovo in euros and not in dinars, while now Kosovo authorities are considering ways to ensure that the aid launched by Serbia to the Serb community in Kosovo is not misused.
US official Patel has reiterated the American concern for the situation, and has called on Kosovo and Serbia to reduce tensions.
According to him, the Kosovo dialogue -- Serbia -- which is mediated by the European Union in Brussels -- is the channel for resolving issues like the dinar.
We welcome [the talks in Brussels]. They have been developed within the EU's facilitated dialogue, today, and that includes the discussion of the new BQC currency regulation, and we believe that these talks should be held urgently”, Patel said.
The two countries' top negotiators, Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi and the head of the Office for Kosovo in Serbia, Petar Petkovic, have discussed the issue Tuesday in Brussels and have been reached with compliance that by 22 March the parties submit their proposals for using the Serbian dinar in Kosovo, while next week they will meet again in Brussels for discussing options.
The international community has repeated several times that it does not object to the legitimacy of the decision, but disagrees with the speed of implementing the decision, without offering alternatives to Serbs in Kosovo.
On Tuesday, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said in an interview for Radio Free Europe that no proposals for the dinar that are contrary to the BEC regulation will be accepted. / Radio Free Europe
