Escobar: Kurt refused proposals for the dinar

The United States' special envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, has said in an interview for Radio Free Europe that he has failed to convince Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti to address Western concerns dealing with the ban on using the Serbian dinar in Kosovo.

I asked the prime minister to suspend the decision while we, along with the European Union, the United States and the Government of Kosovo, work on a longer-term solution that fits your needs, that is, electronic transfers to the euro through the Kosovo system. But now, we have to do something urgent. Unfortunately, I failed to convince him of this”, Escobar has declared. /REL