After Thaci, Hoti also cancels trip to US: He will not attend White House meeting

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The prime minister of self-proclaimed Kosovo, Avdulah Hoti, has announced that he cannot attend the meeting (with the Serbian president) on June 27 at the White House.

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Hoti wrote on Twitter that due to the situation caused by the indictment of the Specialist Prosecution he informed special US envoy for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina Richard Grenell that he could not attend the June 27 meeting.

"Due to the new developments in Pristina as a result of the indictment submitted by the Specialized (Specialist) Prosecutor's Office, I have to return to my country to deal with the situation. I informed Ambassador Grenell that I could not attend the June 27 meeting at the White House," the Kosovo prime minister said on Twitter.

Due to the new developments in Prishtina as a result of the indictment submitted by the Specialized Prosecutor's Office, I have to return to my country to deal with the situation. I informed Ambassador Grenell that I could not attend the June 27 meeting at the White House.— Avdullah Hoti (@Avdullah) June 25, 2020

A spokesman for the Specialist Prosecution for KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army") war crimes, Christopher Bennett, announced yesterday that this office had submitted a ten-count indictment to the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, charging Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, Democratic Party of Kosovo leader Kadri Veseli and others with a range of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, enforced disappearance of persons, persecution, and torture.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)