(ANSA-AFP) – PRISTINA, DEC 12 – Kosovo has started accepting
migrants that the United States wants to deport, under an accord
with President Donald Trump’s administration, Prime Minister
Albin Kurti said. “We are accepting those whom the United States
does not want on its territory,” Kurti said a television
interview late Thursday, adding that one or two of the migrants
had arrived in the Balkan state. Under the accord reached in
June, Kosovo could accept up to 50 people, according to the
Kurti government. The agreement was to last one year. Kosovo,
one of Europe’s poorest countries, wanted through the accord to
express its “eternal gratitude” for US support since it broke
away from Serbia in 2008, the government said at the time. Kurti
came to power in February but his government has since fallen
and a new election will be held on December 28. The United
States has had harsh words for Kurti’s party, accusing it of
“undermining the stability” of Kosovo by preventing a Serbian
political party from running in the December elections.
(ANSA-AFP).
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