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Kosovo Assembly approves 4 international agreements, but not the resolution on oil
2026-04-10 16:58:55 / KOSOVA
In the April 10 plenary session, Kosovo Assembly members approved four international agreements, but a resolution calling for the reduction of excise duty and the abolition of Value Added Tax (VAT) on oil did not pass.
Four agreements worth millions of euros
MPs ratified four international agreements worth millions of euros.
The Loan Agreement between Kosovo and the International Development Association for the Kosovo Financial Sector Development Project received over 80 votes.
The loan agreement between Kosovo and the French Development Agency for the Policy-Based Loan Program was also signed. According to the Minister of Finance, Hekuran Murati, this agreement is worth 80 million euros.
The loan agreement between Kosovo and the German Government for loans in the energy and climate sector also received the green light.
Minister Murati said that this agreement, also worth 80 million euros, supports policies and reforms in the energy sector.
The Loan Agreement with the International Development Association for the "Western Balkans Trade and Transport Facilitation 2.0" Project was also ratified.
Murati said that the agreement is within the framework of a regional project that foresees 35 million euros as a loan and 12 million in the form of a grant.
Oil resolution fails
During the session, a resolution proposed by the opposition Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) was also put to a vote, which called for a reduction in excise duty and the abolition of VAT on oil.
34 MPs voted in favor, 49 against and 7 abstained.
The debate on the resolution took place on April 3, but the vote on it was postponed due to lack of a quorum.
Oil prices around the world, including in Kosovo, have risen since the conflict between the United States and Israel with Iran began on February 28. On April 8, the parties reached an agreement for a two-week ceasefire.
During the debate on this resolution, the ruling cabinet opposed the demands of opposition parties to reduce excise duty and abolish VAT, with Prime Minister Albin Kurti saying that in the past, when VAT was abolished or reduced, it had no effect.
The text of the resolution called for: reducing the excise tax from 36 cents per liter to 20 cents per liter until prices on international exchanges stabilize, and temporarily reducing the VAT on fuel from 18 to 8 percent until prices stabilize.
According to the Ministry of Trade, oil in Kosovo on April 10 can be sold at the highest price of 1.89 euros.
About a week after the start of the conflict in the Middle East, Kosovo imposed protective measures on the price of oil.
According to the decision, the maximum trade margin allowed for wholesale sales will be up to 2 cents per liter, while for retail sales it will be up to 12 cents per liter.
Resolution on “protecting the truth of the war” in Kosovo
Unlike the resolution on oil, a resolution was adopted on Friday that calls for the protection of "the historical truth of the war in Kosovo in 1998-1999."
The resolution was adopted with 90 votes in favor, none against, and no abstentions.
The resolution was proposed by the opposition party, the Democratic Party of Kosovo, after an exhibition set up in Pristina Square in March on the massacres in Kosovo, which was said to have inaccurate data.
PDK MP Nait Hasani read the text of the resolution, which condemns the distortion, relativization or inaccurate presentation of facts related to the recent war in Kosovo.
"The resolution condemns initiatives, such as the recent exhibition organized in public spaces in Pristina, that with inaccuracies in data about the massacres in Kosovo incite widespread reactions and provoke the re-experiencing of pain, risking the distortion of truth and facts," the text of the resolution said.
The resolution also requests that justice authorities investigate whether there are criminal offenses related to the presentation of facts in this exhibition.
The exhibition was removed from the Municipality of Pristina, while the Kosovo Assembly, which had funded part of the exhibition by the non-governmental organizations INTEGRA and ADMOVERE, said that the legislative body supports initiatives that address issues of public interest, but this support is provided "without interfering in the content of such projects."
After numerous reactions, Shkëlzen Gashi, on behalf of the organizations ADMOVERE and INTEGRA, stated that the exhibition was realized based on his book "Massacres in Kosovo 1998-1999", published in 2024, while for compiling the list of those killed in the massacres, the organizations relied on the list of those killed from the "Book of Memory of Kosovo" of the Humanitarian Law Center in Kosovo (HLC), an organization led by Natasha Kandić, a Serbian human rights activist.
However, the Humanitarian Law Center has reacted by saying that the data presented in the exhibition in some cases gives an inaccurate picture of the crimes and this is not related to issues of interpretation, but to "a basic lack of knowledge about international humanitarian law, the facts proven in court and the way to read the data."
Meanwhile, by order of the Special Prosecution, Gashi's apartment was raided on March 30 and he was questioned on suspicion of having committed the criminal offense of "inciting discord and intolerance."/REL
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