Rama cites armed clashes, says Albania can have normalisation with Serbia if police fail

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has held an extraordinary conference on the situation in Kosovo.

Rama has said there can be no normality even between Skopje and Serbia as long as Srbia does not end the freedom of three Kosovo policemen.

There can be no normality between Albania and Serbia as long as Serbia does not end the freedom of three Kosovo police officers. who have committed no crime... keeping them in prison for days is inexplicable and unexplicable and then attempting to hold this state nonsense”, Rama said.

Rama also warned that the tension climate is growing by “hours, seriously jeopardising a fatal armed crash between groups operating in the north of Kosovo and security forces, which would be a catastrophe in which KFOR” would be involved inevitably.

“If Serbia has claims of arbitrary arrests in northern Kosovo, these are not argued by holding three Albanian policemen hostage in Serbia, but by co-operating with the international factor and, above all, by acting specifically where the origin of this problem is the relationship that needs to be normalised, which is the agreement that needs to be finalised.“, Rama said.