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Kosovo minister of Agriculture, Nenad Rikalo, is expected to be dismissed on Saturday as a compromise of Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj with opposition party of PSD, who conditioned their vote for Budget 2019 in exchange of dismissing Kosovo Serb Minister, who was accused by his former Albanian neighbours for mistreating them during 1998-1999 war.

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