{"id":13908,"date":"2021-05-20T07:05:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T07:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=13908"},"modified":"2021-05-20T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T07:06:08","slug":"kosovos-foreign-affairs-minister-discharges-12-ambassadors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovos-foreign-affairs-minister-discharges-12-ambassadors\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosovo&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Minister discharges 12 ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Donika G\u00ebrvalla-Schwarz, confirmed the disengagement of 12 ambassadors arguing that they were political appointees.<\/p>\n<p>The story was confirmed by the deputy foreign affairs minister; however, foreign minister G\u00ebrvalla will give more elaborate details later during the day.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo criticized the move as \u201can unprecedented act\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision of the President of Kosovo, upon the initiative of the Foreign Affairs Minister, to release from duty several ambassadors of Kosovo are unprecedented and politically immature, and will have a negative effect on Kosovo\u2019s foreign policy\u201d, said Ramush Haradinaj, adding that none of the ambassadors is affiliated to any political subject.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/05\/18\/kosovo-and-albania-sign-alliance-agreement-in-the-field-of-defense-aiming-to-elevate-their-joint-partnership\/\">Kosovo and Albania sign alliance agreement in the field of defense, aiming to elevate their co-partnership<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/05\/18\/kfor-not-withdrawing-stoltenberg-encouraging-dialogue-as-a-guaranty-for-regional-peace\/\">\u201cKFOR not withdrawing\u201d, Stoltenberg: Encouraging dialogue as a guaranty for regional peace<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/05\/18\/osmani-vucic-clash-in-slovenia-serbian-president-insists-kosovo-is-a-part-of-serbia\/\">Osmani-Vucic clash in Slovenia, Serbian President insists \u201cKosovo is a part of Serbia\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Donika G\u00ebrvalla-Schwarz, confirmed the disengagement of 12 ambassadors arguing that they were political appointees. The story was confirmed by the deputy foreign affairs minister; however, foreign minister G\u00ebrvalla will give more elaborate details later during the day. The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo criticized the move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":13909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kosovo&#039;s Foreign Affairs Minister discharges 12 ambassadors - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovos-foreign-affairs-minister-discharges-12-ambassadors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kosovo&#039;s Foreign Affairs Minister discharges 12 ambassadors - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kosovo\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Donika G\u00ebrvalla-Schwarz, confirmed the disengagement of 12 ambassadors arguing that they were political appointees. 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