BBC: Kosovo military dreamers nervous neighbouring Serbia

In this BBC article, Kosovo's Euro-Atlantic journey has been questioned over the past few weeks.

“S first imposed a 100 per cent tax on neighbouring products, Serbia. Now MPs will vote for the establishment of an army. These actions prompted warnings, threats and prayers from the European Union and NATO”, the BBC writes.

Today's vote would turn 40,000 members of the Kosovo Security Force into the Kosovo professional army. The BBC writes that Kosovo is the territory protected by 40,000 KFOR troops since Serb forces left Kosovo in 1999, Coha.net broadcasts.

Serbian Prime Minister Anna Brnabyq was so furious by the army vote that he spoke of a military response. The Serbian president sought support from Russia and China”, the BBC writes.

Serbia sees the Kosovo military force as a threat to 120 thousand members of the Serb community in Kosovo. Serbia does not recognise Kosovo, which declared its independence ten years ago,”, has added British media.

The BBC writes that a completely different situation was three months ago when all talks were in exchange for territories between Serbia and Kosovo to end their long-standing dispute, after six years of negotiations launched by Brussels.

The “This plan is a departure from the status of Kosovo designed by Western powers. There are many European Union missions in Kosovo, and KFOR is also. This country benefits greatly from international aid”, the BBC writes.

“So there were elements of the hand bite that were feeding Kosovo in the last two decades when Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj accused Federica Moghrin of drowning the dialogue process”, writes BBC quoting Haradinaj: “It has transformed dialogue from it for normalisation into territorial dialogue. This has damaged our” region.

Tax Objections

The BBC writes Haradinaj's reaction was against the exchange of territory, which he has strongly rejected. This came in response to the EU, which opposes Kosovo's tax decision on Serbia and Bosnia.

“ [This] decision is against soul and co-operation in the region”, the BBC quoted Mogherin as saying.

I expect the Kosovo government to withdraw the decision. But I believe the two sides can continue the dialogue”, she said.

Some are less optimistic about this.

“Now I am more concerned about relations between Serbia and Kosovo than I was before”, said James Ker-Lindsay, Balkan connoisseur at London School of Economics.

“Dialog hasn't been good for several years, but it had balance. This has changed and it's hard to predict where it's going to take”, he said.

BBC writes Kosovo's determination to transform The KSF in the military has made things worse. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called the military plan an inappropriate decision and warned <x0) serious consequences for Kosovo's future for Euro-Atlantic integration. ”

The major push for Pristina is America, which, with its stance contrary to that of Brussels and NATO, has supported the formation of an army, broadcast Koha.net.

The BBC writes that the formation of the military at this time comes as Pristina's frustration of not liberalising visas from the EU for Kosovo citizens.

Fifteen years since independence, Kosovo lacks much of its citizenship. The conversion of KSF into the military would at least be a planned” achievement, the BBC writes in addition.