The health crisis has not put an end to all diplomatic initiatives. In the shadow of the Covid-19, while half of humanity was confined, some even accelerated. This is the case of the conflict between Kosovo, which has been independent since 2008, and Serbia, which has never recognized the emancipation of its former province.
In the midst of the coronavirus crisis in early April, the Kosovo government lifted 100% customs duties on Serbian products, thereby blowing up one of the main obstacles to the resumption of negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina, which have remained in conflict since the war in the late 1990s. This decision was prepared during a discreet meeting in Washington on March 2, in the presence of Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his national security adviser, Robert O'Brien. During this meeting, the Serbian and Kosovar presidents, Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci, raised the idea of an exchange of
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