... Kosovo taking shape as a multinational country. However, this outcome is now hardly likely, as Pristina treats Serbs as a minority. Belgrade, for its part, cannot accept a monoethnic Kosovo.
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is a champion of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999 and the course that led Kosovo to proclaim independence in 2008. Belgrade expects its dialogue with Washington to become more rational and draw on respect and recognition of standing agreements if Donald Trump wins the upcoming presidential election in the U.S.
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An issue for which Cohen can be criticized is his unfair reference to an “annexation” of Kosovo by the West (p. 135). NATO’s 1999 military operations, in defense of Kosovar Albanians facing potential ethnic cleansing orchestrated by Serbia’s Slobodan Milošević, may have prevented a repeat of a Srebrenica-like 1995 war crime, where over 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks were ...
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. Henry A. Kissinger The biggest struggle that will need to be done is to keep KSF story within NATO to stop it become Kosovo Army. In the current situation, potential Kosovo army, can not be compared to the capacity and strength of the Army of Serbia, which is perhaps the strongest in the region and capable of defending the country from a much larger threat. Albania ...
... headquarters in Brussels, there is a clear consensus that NATO will seek to maintain and prolong its relationship with the KSF, aiming to postpone the transformation of the KSF into an army to sometime in the future. Reviewing NATO’s operation in Kosovo, NATO Chiefs of Defence on September meeting in Budapest, welcomed the progress made in terms of security and stability. “Our intention is to gradually reduce the size of KFOR when conditions allow. Any further decision will be taken based on real ...
