Pere Miró (picture), Deputy Director of the International Olympic Committee, declared that "Spain is the only country with which there is no solution on Kosovo. We have two years and two different governments with this. (…) If the Spanish Government is not in the conditions to guarantee the access not only to Kosovo but to every athlete to compete, we should warn all IFs that, until this is solved, they should not hold international competitions there."
In a joint statement on 14 November 2018[1], the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Spanish Olympic Committee "publicly expressed their deepest satisfaction" with a commitment from Spain’s foreign affairs minister Josep Borrell to allow athletes from Kosovo to use their national symbols, anthem, and flag while participating in international sporting events being held in the country.
However, hours later through a press release, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, said that the Spanish Government will raise a formal complaint to the IOC to denounce what he considers "false information coming from a high-level IOC position”, which is groundless, “and will transfer them” the profound malaise that these statements have caused to the Spanish executive. In its statement, the Spanish government states that...
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