US Kosovo envoy Grenell does not support reciprocity instead of tariffs

NEWS 10.02.202020:56
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The US special envoy for Kosovo Ambassador Richard Grenell does not support Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s idea of revoking the 100 percent tariffs on Serbian goods and introducing reciprocal measures, the ambassador’s spokesman Dick Custin told Radio Free Europe on Monday.

Custin said that Kosovo needs to revoke the tariffs on goods from Serbia without introducing reciprocal measures. “Not just suspend the tariffs but revoke them completely,” he said.  

Radio Free Europe said it contact Prime Minister Kurti’s cabinet for a comment on the American diplomat’s words but got no reply.  

Grenell told Kurti in Pristina earlier this month that the tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina have ot be revoked. Kurti recently wrote on his Facebook profile that the Kosovo customs service was preparing to have the tariffs revoked, but he told the Voice of America that Serbia has to end its campaign to deny Kosovo’s independence.