The country is facing the possibility of exemption from CEFTA, Kurti gives publicity to the Free Trade Agreement with 4 European Countries

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti on Sunday distributed the post of Trade Minister Roseta Hajdari, who has indicated that Kosovo last week has successfully completed negotiating chapters for the Free Trade Agreement with the United States and EFTA.

EFTA is an international free trade organisation consisting of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland.

For this, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said that in March 2022, during his visit to Norway and meeting with Norwegian Trade and Industry Minister Jan Christian Vestra, he had submitted Kosovo's request to advance economic and trade co-operation with the EFTA member states from the Joint Declaration to Trade Agreement.

“Two and a half years later, after four rounds of negotiations launched in June 2022, we have Free Trade Agreements with the EFTA member states, whose member is Norway, along with Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Iceland. The signing of the Agreement is expected to take place early next year”, Kurti wrote on Facebook.

But, as Kosovo approaches EFTA, it is threatening to be expelled from CEFTA, the Free Trade Organisation, which includes Southeast European countries.

Germany has not ruled out CEFTA operating without Kosovo if Kosovo does not remove Serbia from a move it has imposed on certain goods. Kurti government has agreed that Kosovo will be represented by ascierx (Kosovo*) in this organisation by replacing it U n NMIKU, on whose behalf Kosovo is represented. Germans who have negotiated this agreement insist that it be implemented in packages, including the removal of the move on Serbian goods. Kosovo is being pressured to accept this option until the upcoming meeting of the Berlin Process, held in half of October.