“Serbian judges and prosecutors did not show up at the oath in the office of Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci. Their appointment did not happen, because it’s ‘forbidden by the Republic of Serbia with the intention not to allow integration in the judicial system of Kosovo,’ which has just been released from the Kosovo presidency. The failure of Serbian judges and prosecutors attending was also ‘the failure and inability of the EU as a mediator in the process of implementing the agreement on the judiciary.'” (translated from KosSev)
Current DCM at the U.S Embassy in Turkey Jeffrey M. Hovenier has been nominated as the next U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/02/president-biden-announces-seven-key-nominations-3/
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