Kosovo's prime minister said on Friday he was resigning because he had been...
PRISTINA - Kosovo’s prime minister said on Friday he was resigning because he had been called to a war crimes court in The Hague to answer prosecutors’ questions related to Kosovo’s violent independence struggle two decades ago.
“Now the responsibility is to the president to start consultations and to announce an early election date,” he said, adding he would travel to The Hague next week. Haradinaj’s resignation will cause further delays in troubled normalization talks between Kosovo and Serbia. They have been frozen since November 2018 when Kosovo introduced a 100 percent trade tariffs on all products made in Serbia.
This is the second time Hardinaj has resigned as prime minister. In 2005 he was indicted by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for former Yugoslavia. He was tried and acquitted twice by that court. Kosovo war veterans organizations say more than 50 ex-KLA guerrillas had been questioned as witnesses or suspects in atrocities against Serbs during the 1998-99 conflict, but that none had been indicted to date.
FILE PHOTO: Kosovo's Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj talks during an interview withe Reuters in Pristina, Kosovo, October 16, 2017. REUTERS/Hazir reka/File Photo
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