Kosovo can have direct foreign investment without normalising relations with Serbia”

Without normalising reports between Kosovo and Serbia and implementing agreements, Kosovo cannot hope for serious foreign direct investment, so the chairman of the American Economic Ode (OEAK), Arian Zeka, has stressed.

He said high officials of the United States of America ( The US has questioned the seriousness of the Kosovo government in preserving separate reports with the US, all of this according to him, due to the failure to implement commitments Kosovo government has made before international partners.

Zeka has said the Kosovo government, as a cause for failure to implement its commitments, has also seen a breakthrough in reports not only with the US, but also European Union countries (BE).

I think this crack of reports doesn't happen only with the US, it happens with other international partners, including the EU. To remember, Kosovo currently undergoes sanctions or punishment measures imposed by the EU. In some papers, or presentations, or statements by senior US officials have actually been called into question the seriousness of the Kosovo government in terms of maintaining separate reports with the US, and all of this comes due to the failure to implement commitments the Kosovo government has taken before international partners that, in large measure, have to do with implementing the agreement to normalise reports with Serbia. There is a direct conglomerate between this open problem, amid failing to realise the normalisation of reports with Serbia, and which then hinders development on the economic level. Even attracting foreign direct investment”.

The American “Oda has made it known that without the arrival of a normalisation between Kosovo and Serbia, or even an economic normalisation, as has been the Creca of the most washed US officials, Kosovo cannot talk about attracting serious foreign investment. For the coming of serious corporations in the country since it wants open issues, what it wants to do to get through these problems in deadly conflicts of course scares these investors. This is the biggest sin that is committed to our efforts to attract foreign investment to the country”, he has said of EO.

He has said that the EU-set measures, which have now become a year from their deployment, have lost hundreds of millions of euros in investments.

He has added that the country is in danger of losing even thousands of euros that can benefit from the new development plan for the Western Balkans, because the government is not keeping track of the agreements it has made.

The “has been made almost a year since these penal measures have been imposed, or sanctions as we are referring to more simply, set by the EU, have been spoken of by hundreds of millions of lost euros that have not been able to line up in the service of the country's economic development, reform of public administration, reform of the environment, and other reforms that would be implemented by these funds. We are in another situation now, not further than this week there was an apparent concern about the possibility of not benefiting from the multibillion-euro development plan for Western Balkan states. Imagine such a situation that one of two three poor states on the continent of Europe loses opportunity because the country's leaders fail to keep their word, or implement, which they took before the EU”, he said.

OECA chairman has said that the Kosovo government with the decision to ban imports of goods from the line from Serbia and the decision to implement the new Kosovo Central Bank regulation (BQK) has shown an approach of government restructuring and unco-ordinated with international partners.

He has said that the Kosovo government, considering the US's power and EU state, Kosovo should take their statements very seriously.

Kosovo's “government a year ago has even imposed a halt in terms of importing goods that are produced in Serbia, which the American Oda has made quite clear that it is highly accessible to factories owned by international companies, including those of the US. Such destructive approach of the country's institutions, the company of other uniform decisions such as the BQC regulation, for limiting foreign currency circulation, are actually seen as destructive, are seen as uncoordinated both with the US and with the EU. Both are serious acts in terms of maintaining and developing interstate and international relations. Kosovo's government should therefore receive their statements with greater seriousness. However, the power of these two states, the US and the EU is much greater than it can currently be perceived by the Kosovo government”, he has said.