Serbia aims to get Kosovo most strategic monitoring point in Balkans

The most strategic observation point in the Balkans lies within Kosovo's territory. The fact that it is only hundreds of meters from the border with Serbia has caused the northern neighbour to begin his offensive to adopt it whenever the demarcation between the two countries takes place.

The top of the Copaonic Mountains, Panchiq, located at a height of 70 feet [2017 m]. It enables surveillance toward the Middle East and the Mediterranean. It has been the main spot of surveillance throughout the former Yugoslavia, and this point has made up the telecommunications military centre, in which there have been long-range radars in place for the needs of the former Yugoslavia's military. And radar control of flights. The same country has been the television broadcaster, telecommunications center, and meteorological center. The complex contains many operating rooms and tunnels, writes “Koha Ditore” today.

Just because of his position, this was the first target of the NATO bombing, when he acted militarily in the former Yugoslavia, in an attempt to prevent atrocities that Slobodan Milosevic's regime then committed against Kosovo Albanians.

After NATO's liberation and deployment to Kosovo, the US Army is deployed at this point. /Time/