Kosovo President hires US firm to improve image internationally

Kosovo President, Hashim Thaci, has contracted a US company aimed at improving his image internationally. According to Kosovo news outlet Insajderi the President’s Office confirmed the contract on the night Kosovo MPs launched an unexpected initiative to undo The Hague based international war crimes court. Thaci’s name is mentioned as one of the potential inditctees of this Court, which has been established to investigate and try alleged crimes committed by the KLA. During the Kosovo war in 1998-99 Thaci was political representative of the Kosovo Albanian rebel army which fought against Serbian military and police forces.

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