2 minutes agoTwo months from the start of tensions in northern Kosovo
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)With positive moves in terms of security and rule of law, but on the political and diplomatic side, recent tensions in the country's north that erupted two months ago have produced catastrophic results. So say connoisseurs of security and policy issues, of developments that followed the start of work by the four [heads]...
The mayors of Kosovo's northern municipalities had decided to go to work two months ago.
The ongoing days, tensions gradually reached the peak, and the country faced a more serious situation in recent years, which resulted in some government initiatives, of strong resistance against them by criminal groups in the north, supported by Belgrade.
Members of the Kosovo police, KFOR soldiers and journalists suffered most heavily in the situation, in late May and the days ahead.
Despite the fact that the situation is currently calmer in front of municipal objects, protesters are still coming up, why in smaller numbers.
Security affairs acquaintance Valdet Hoxha, the situation that resulted after this period, is seeing it at two angles.
“With police intervention in that part of the country naturally that has developed a better perception in the sense of rule of law and we can say freely that some criminal gangs are no longer immune and this is positive in terms of security, but if we equalise it with political and diplomatic terms, we see that this has had some serious consequences, and here I am referring to sanctions or measures that the EU” called, he has declared.
University Professor Milazim Krasniqi considers political consequences serious for Kosovo.
The resulting result is catastrophic for Kosovo because it never happened that Kosovo is under European Union sanctions and strongly reproved by the US so it was not worth it alone for the license plates, which was also the beginning of this entire disaster”, Professor Krasniqi said.
Except for protesters who are continuing to oppose mayors, who two months within the municipality is also Leposaviqi chairman Lulzim Hetemi of the Vetevendosje Movement.
Security for him is offering KFOR troops, while according to his party he is carrying out the task by never leaving the facility.
As a result of tensions, NATO, increased the number of soldiers under KFOR's mission, and have been more present in the northern part of the country, along with EULEX members.
Kosovo has recently agreed to reduce the presence of members of Kosovo Police Special Units from municipal facilities for 25 %s, as a step towards suspension.
