US again seeks urgent steps in escalation of situation in the north

The UN has stressed that the United States and the European Union are very clear to their expectations on both sides [Kosovo and Serbia].

“We continue to call on Serbia and Kosovo to take urgent, concrete steps to de-progress tensions. This includes the unconditional release of three Kosovo police officers detained in Serbia”, said in a UN response to the Voice of America (in Serbian language).

Furthermore, the US State Department says the “both sides should follow the plan proposed by the European Union and return without delay to the EU-brokered dialogue”.

European Diplomus chief Josep Borrell has said he is overly concerned with the arrests of Serbs in the north, as well as with the KSF march.

Even these arrests, the European Union's Chief for Diplomacy has named them <x0 sub-trial”.

“Very alarmed by the situation in northern Kosovo: extra-trial arrests of Kosovo Serbs and Kosovo Security Forces marching in South Mitrovica; followed by heavy rhetoric by Serbia.”, Borrell wrote on Twitter.

Borrell has said that escalation is becoming dangerous, until he added that he will not tolerate it.

Despite yesterday's crisis meeting, escalation continues and is becoming dangerous. We won't tolerate it. ”, he wrote.

Borrell has opposed Prime Minister Albin Kurti, who for KSF exercises has said this is annual activity and that KFOR has been fully informed “”, reports Online Reporter.net.

“Today's training by Regiment I II i@ KSF Kosovo in South Mitrovica is a routine activity, planned annually, for which KFOR was fully informed. It consisted of 215 soldiers who went from garrison “Minator” to Frasher and returned. Dezinformation is dangerous and unacceptable”, Kurti wrote.

As for today's arrest in the north, Kurti has clarified that he has been arrested for attacking KFOR members, adding that “prime minister of a democratic state I have zero involvement in crime investigations and arrests””

“Based on numerous trials and in line with the Criminal Procedure Code and the rights of regular legal process, police have arrested one person in northern Mitrovica for attacking soldiers @ NATO KFOR in Zvecan 29 May. As prime minister of a democratic state I have zero involvement in crime and arrests investigations””, Kurti has said.

In the end, Kurti has said that “the spread of panic and false claims” only fuels tensions.

He has suggested Borrell before reacting to the sources and to receive official information from Kosovo institutions.

“The spread of panic and false claims only fuels tensions and helps those seeking to escalate them. A call for all: please confirm your sources and wait for official information from Kosovo institutions before you decide to engage publicly in news transmission or forecasting”, Kurti wrote at Titter.