Former AKI Chief Inspector: Elections in Serbia have shown ultranationalist “rect” in this country continues to enjoy great support

Former AKI Chief Inspector Burim Ramadani tells Radio Free Europe that the elections in Serbia have shown that <x0 nationalist “at this location “continues to enjoy great support” and, as such, “has also received the support of Serbian leaders in other countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro”.

If we look at how [partys in Serbia] have made the election campaign, then we notice it's about neutrality. The current leadership, which has already been confirmed, promotes panserbism and thus threatens the security and stability of the Western Balkans”, Ramadani says.

He adds that non-Serbism, which in the past had other names, such as Serbia the Great and Serbian World, can now be passed on to the confederation of Serbian territories, which is also a kind of threat to the Western Balkans.

Ramadani says such an ideology can be halted only with NATO's further enlargement and presence in the region, as well as with direct punishment of Serbia's leadership, which promotes ideology of extremism and nationalism.

Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina must join NATO with accelerated steps and, at the same time, Serbia must get the deserved sentence if it continues to promote nationalist ideology of panserbism, either by putting on its individuals' blacklist or by removing it from [NATO programme] Partnership for Peace, to start”, Ramadani says.

He adds that the international community, NATO, respectively, is aware of the events in the region and is convinced Serbia will not change its current ideology.

“So NATO will be forced to expand in the Western Balkans and also punish Serbian leadership”, says security expert.

NATO has begun to strengthen its presence in the Balkans by sending additional forces to Kosovo, following the armed attack on Banjska.

In this village in northern Kosovo, armed groups of Serbs have attacked Kosovo police on 24 September, killing a policeman.

The responsibility for organising and participating in the attack has been taken by Millan Radoicic, former deputy chairman of the Serbian List, the largest Serbian party in Kosovo, which enjoys Belgrade's support.