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The relations of Prime Minister Albin Kurti and his government with the United States are at the lowest point since the Vetevendosje Movement has received the country's second ruling mandate. Because, general non-coordination in issues that could slow down or jeopardise progress in implementing agreements with Serbia. The U.S. finds it clear that Kurt is not treating him as a partner expressly said by US Assistant Secretary of State James O'Brien.

I don't make vague threats publicly” It was the suggestion that the senior officer of the Biden Administration, in charge of European and Euro-Azi affairs, had forwarded it to the Government of Kosovo and Prime Minister Albin Kurti, about 1 months ago.

James O'Brien's warning came about after, according to him, Prime Minister Albin Kurti “promised it would work” about US concern over the issue of the new BQC's cash regulation.

I would say that if we are not treated as partners, we will not treat the Kosovo government as partner”, warn O'Brien, on February 13th, 2024, in his interview for “Voice of America”.

A month after, the US-government Kosovo report appears to have escalated. Washington has that clear, so they have also begun to implement some kind of punishment for the head of the Kosovo government.

The level of co-operation and meetings with Prime Minister Kurti has been limited, reports the online newspaper Reporter.net. This, according to a reliable diplomatic source, such as “limited size” due to the Kosovo government's unregistered behaviour and actions, which according to the US affect, slow down, or even jeopardise progress in implementing agreements reached with Serbia and strain the situation in the country's north.

Consequently, according to the same source, Kurt is limited to meeting senior American officials. Exception, according to the same source, makes any case when any senior American official travels to Pristina for the necessary “clear and necessary” for the Government of Kosovo, which are soon expected to come from the US.

However, from the Kosovo government on Wednesday, not officially, through a member of Kurti's cabinet, they have denied that any “notes such diplomatic powers from the US have been announced or received. A day earlier Tuesday, even Prime Minister Albin Kurti himself in a presentation to reporters “assured” that his government is not breaking relations with the country's allies.

However, US “punitive measures against Prime Minister Kurti, for whom the Government of Kosovo denies it exists, turns out to have started implementation and was seen during the two-day stay in Pristina at Erin McKee, assistant administrator of the International Development Agency USAID.

McKee, officially confirmed by the American Embassy in Pristina, selected whom he wants to meet during his visit to Kosovo. “The assistant-administrator did not meet with the prime minister during her “visit.

Unlike the chief of executives, senior American official President Vjosa Osmani went to a meeting where he stressed U's 25-year presence. AID in Kosovo and pledged that the US will continue its dedication to Kosovo despite disagreements with the specific “government”.

The American punishment for Kurti so openly happens for the first time, but not for members of his cabinet. In November 2022, Justice Minister Albulen Haxhiu and several other government officials, U.S.A., had stopped a visit to Washington as punishment for Kurt's decision on license plates that had been followed by “the great crisis” in the north.

We think that this is not the most necessary time for ministers to be traveling to the US for official meetings, given the crisis that needs to be addressed here. And that's what we're communicating to various officials in government”, Ambassador Havenier said at the time.

Otherwise, Kosovo government's co-ordinated “actions and tensions in the country's north, Kosovo, since the summer of 2023, are also costing them “restrictive measures” from the European Union, which in the country have been called sanctions.