The Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hashim Thaci, met in Brussels with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini. Mogherini said that she will work closely with Thaci and reiterated that the Pristina – Belgrade dialogue will resume in January 2015. "We had the opportunity to exchange views on the progress of Kosovo.
The Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Hashim Thaci, said in a Facebook post that he is set to travel tomorrow first to Strasbourg and then Brussels. Thaci said that he will meet in Strasbourg with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, and discuss increase of cooperation between Kosovo and CoE. He will then go to Brussels where he is expected to meet EU diplomacy chief, Federica Mogherini, and EU Commissioner, Johannes Hahn.
Hashim Thaci, the Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo and Minister for Foreign Affairs, met today with Tracey Ann Jacobson, the United States Ambassador to Kosovo. Thaci and Jacobson discussed the agenda of the new government of Kosovo. Thaci wrote on Facebook that he called on Jacobson to continue supporting Kosovo’s path in Euro-Atlantic integration processes. Thaci assured Jacobson that Kosovo would focus on consolidating its democracy, on the rule of law and on dialogue with Belgrade.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, said in an interview for Radio Free Europe that agreement between the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) will be implemented in entirety and that he believed it will a stable coalition. “PDK’s coalition with LDK is in the interest of Kosovo and is not directed against anyone”, said Thaci adding that they will be open to cooperation with opposition parties.
Koha’s Brussels based correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, writes in an opinion piece, that Hashim Thaci, besides being Isa Mustafa’s partner in the power-sharing coalition, seems that he is also his political mentor. Palokaj writes that Thaci should be a phenomenon in Europe, who, gives promises that are not fulfilled and he continues with new promises, while no one asks why.
Six months and a day after Kosovo’s general election, the country finally has a government. But it is a government of strange bedfellows that faces daunting challenges. The new administration approved by parliament on Tuesday is headed by incoming prime minister Isa Mustafa , with his predecessor and fierce rival Hashim Thaci as his deputy and foreign minister.
Yet, while that may sound like a recipe for instability, the division of power is more likely to mean business as usual for Kosovo, both domestically and internationally.
Legislators approved a new coalition government in Kosovo on Tuesday, including the first prime minister who was not involved with the insurgents who fought for the territory's independence from Serbia.
A general election was held in Kosovo June 8, but bickering among political rivals had prevented the formation of a new government until Tuesday's 65 percent vote of approval.
Hashim Thaci, the outgoing Prime Minister of Kosovo, has decided to hand over his duties to the just-elected Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, on Friday. “We inform all media that Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi shall hand over the office to the newly elected Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, on 12 December 2014, Friday, at 14:00 hours,” stresses a press release issued by the Office of the Prime Minister.
Exactly six months after the early parliamentary elections of Kosovo, Pristina yesterday inaugurated the new Assembly of Kosovo. Elected President of the Assembly is an official of the PDK, Kadri Veseli, a former chief of the Intelligence Service of the KLA, known as SHIK. At the time of this commentary it was expected that the parliament would pass a new government.
Editor-in-chief of the Gazeta Blic news website, Adrian Collaku, writes that the end of the six-month institutional crisis in Kosovo produced winners and losers. The main losers, according to Collaku, are citizens of Kosovo not only because during the last six months, their living conditions deteriorated even further, but also because the governance remained unchanged. Although the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) will not formally lead the new government, it will have a say on all issues.