President of Kosovo Vjos Osmani confirmed on Thursday during a panel discussion at Johns Hopkins University that president Donald Trump had prevented major escalation in the Balkan region in fresh weeks.
– The information I receive all day shows that president Trump has late prevented possible escalation of the situation in the Balkans. We're not talking 2023, we're not talking 2020, we're talking very, very fresh events. said Osmani.
President Trump made it clear in June, added Osmani that this was about the last fewer weeks. The escalation was stopped thanks to the Americans and president Trump's direct commitment," she explained.
Osmani recalled an attack by respective Serbian attackers, which occurred in 2023 in the Banjska village in Kosovo. In the shooting, 1 Kosovo cop was killed. "We cannot so regulation out specified a script (the attack of Serbia), due to the fact that a akin event has already happened recently," she noted. The Kosovo authorities had previously accused Belgrade of planning and assisting in carrying out the attack.
– That's why we shouldn't regulation out this anticipation due to the fact that it's already happened. said Osmani, referring to the armed attack of a group of Serbs on the Kosovo police force in which Sergeant Afrim Bunjak was killed.
In her speech, Osmani warned that Serbia's threats were permanent and should not be underestimated. She stated that Serbia's president Alexandar Vučić "was stuck in the mindset of the 1990s" and that the attack in Banská in 2023 was evidence of this.
Serbia lost control of Kosovo after NATO raids in 1999 and inactive does not recognise its declared independency in 2008. The state is inhabited by a Serbian minority, any of which are concentrated in northern areas, at the border with Serbia. another communities are scattered in areas south of the Ibar River.
Source: PAP / Jakub buffalo
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