Kosovo starts accepting third-party deportees from the US

PRISTINA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - ⁠Kosovo ⁠has ‍started accepting migrants deported from the United States and who ‍are not originally from Kosovo, caretaker ​Prime Minister Albin Kurti said late on Thursday.

Kosovo ​agreed to a request from President Donald Trump's administration to initially take in 50 deportees.

"We are accepting ​those that the U.S. did not want on their territory," Kurti ​told Kanal10 television.

He gave no details on which countries ‌they were from, and said only one or two have arrived ​so far.

Washington is looking ⁠for partners to receive third-party nationals as it seeks to ‌deliver on Trump's promise of record-level deportations.

Kosovo, a Balkan country of 1.6 million ‌people, already has a deal in place to ‌receive 300 foreign prisoners from Denmark from 2027 in return for 210 million euros over ‍the next decade, and has expressed interest in receiving deportees ⁠from Britain.

Kosovo-U.S. relations are particularly strong, given Washington's lead in supporting independence from Serbia in 2008.

(Reporting by Fatos Bytyci; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)

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