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The White House mocked former President Trump for claiming to deploy his 'envoy ambassador' to tout his Serbia-Kosovo agreement, bypassing about the current administration.
Trump named Grenell his special envoy for Serbia-Kosovo peace relations in 2019, at the same time he served as ambassador to Germany. Grenell was named acting director of national intelligence in 2020.
Trump said he'd sent the former ambassador on the foreign policy mission, but Grenell made clear he was there as a 'private citizen.'
'The great people of Serbia and Kosovo have overcome tremendous obstacles in their pursuit of economic normalization. The agreements my administration brokered are historic and should not be abandoned, many lives are at stake,' Trump said in a statement.
'The region is too important and the people have waited too long for this work to be cast aside. Today, my Envoy Ambassador Ric Grenell visited the Kosovo-Serbia border to highlight this important agreement.'
'Outside of his very active imagination, Donald Trump is no longer President and doesn't have any 'envoy ambassadors' representing the United States,' a White House official told reporters in response.
Grenell has
