German network puts Kosovo first in crisis centres for 2023

The RND shows that it is clear that war has returned to Europe and that all can see this through Russia's aggression against Ukraine and stresses that in the new year, conflicts threaten from Kosovo to the Middle East.

The danger for crisis centres to turn into armed conflicts has increased because under the shadow of Russian aggression, relations between the conflict parties are getting worse. The threshold of military violence has decreased, as shown by China's muscular game of Taiwan, or Erdogan's punitive action in Syrian Kurdish areas. The world is looking at Ukraine, and it seems that warmongers worldwide are making it wrong as an invitation to show their muscles”, the RND points out.

At first place on the list of seven crisis centres, which the RND expects to conquer the world in 2023, is Kosovo.

The situation at the border between Serbia and Kosovo is extremely explosive, the media group says.

The RND reports that local media have reported explosions, shots and roadblocks since mid-December.

In this regard, The RND stresses that masked persons could be seen at the barricades on December 11th, blocking the most important road routes to central Serbia.

He also reports that EULEX reported that its patrol was attacked with a stun bomb.

Also, The RND reports that Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq has called for the return of up to 1,000 security forces members, whom the Kosovo government considers to be aggressive provocations.

The RND recalls that under the 1999 Kumanovo Agreement, Serbia accepted the withdrawal of all security forces from Kosovo, because peace can be established only thus.

Vuciki's request for security forces is considered a war rhetoric by Kosovo. Germany's Foreign Affairs Minister, Analena Berbok, has on Twitter named such a request as totally unacceptable”, RND recalls.

For the integration of Serbs, mainly in the north, Kosovo's structures have agreed with the Brussels Agreement and, as the RND writes, with the support of the Serbian government in Belgrade, <x0 Serbian nationalist subsumptions in Kosovo are doing everything to prevent it even by violence”.

“Now in the north are again building parallel institutions, which under the Brussels agreement must be dissolved. The Serbian nationalist government under President Vuciq, with Russia's support, is encouraged to review the outcome of the lost war in 1999. Vuciq claims Serbs in Kosovo are being oppressed and that there are plans to be expelled from Kosovo, and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti wants co-operation with Serbs and Europe is trying to pressure the candidate for membership. So Serbia”, media reports.

Like further crisis grounds for 2023, RND ranks conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Turkey and Greece, China and Taiwan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia and Kazakhstan, China and India