Thaci’s 24 hours: What happened with Kosovo President?

Returned to Kosovo without arranging any significant meeting in the US, failure to implant his idea on change of border which he pushed forward over the last seven months, and without a clear answer onto what will happen with the Kosovo Army, and at the end because of the Vetevendosje’s protest against his land swap proposal, the President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, staged on Saturday a visit at the Gazivoda lake in northern part of Kosovo which is controlled by Serbs. One should not fall for this cheap manoeuvre which was done for his personal benefits. It has nothing to do with the extension of sovereignty in the northern part of the country which is controlled by Serbs who are under direct influence of Belgrade.

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