U.S., EU Envoys Urge Kosovo and Serbia
Not to Fuel Violence
Posted By: DogFacedPonySoldier, 12/14/2022 4:41:19 AM
Envoys from the European Union and the United States have called on Kosovo and Serbia to remain calm and not fuel an ongoing ethnic crisis in Kosovo's north where local Serbs have erected barricades to prevent police movement. Serb protesters in northern Kosovo have blocked main roads and exchanged fire with police after the arrest of a former Serb policeman for allegedly attacking Kosovo institutions and officials during rising tensions between authorities and Kosovo's Serb minority.
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Kosovo will apply to join the European Union this week, Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on Tuesday, a process that is expected to take years if not decades and is dependent on its normalising relations with Serbia. Albanian-majority Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008 with the backing of the West, following a 1998-1999 war in which NATO intervened to protect the territory. Kosovo is not a member of the United Nations and five EU states - Spain, Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Cyprus - refuse to recognise Kosovo's statehood.
Envoys from the European Union and the United States have called on Kosovo and Serbia to remain calm and not fuel an ongoing ethnic crisis in Kosovo's north where local Serbs have erected barricades to prevent police movement. Serb protesters in northern Kosovo have blocked main roads and exchanged fire with police after the arrest of a former Serb policeman for allegedly attacking Kosovo institutions and officials during rising tensions between authorities and Kosovo's Serb minority.
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Many observers think that this is being reignited by the warmongers in the NATO/EU alliance with the blessings of the U.S. "Deep State" and the U.S. State Department. Remember that Camp Bondsteel, the U.S. Army base is in the heart of Kosovo, which according the U.N. Resolutions, remains part of Serbia. Why is the U.S. so often in the center of these conflicts? Is this something that the average American endorses? Who decides this madness?