10 minutes agoClark: Kosovo secession dictated by Serbian actions, now the two countries find their way forward
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)25 years after NATO's intervention to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, General Wesley Clark says he is proud of the operation he led and that the course of events that culminated with Kosovo's independence was dictated by the brutality of Serbian forces. General Clark says in an interview for the Voice of America with the case [...]
General Clark says in an interview for the Voice of America on this anniversary, that today it is unfair that there is more pressure on Kosovo than on Serbia, but stresses that the two countries should find the way to co-existence.
He says many of the Western positions are defined by what is happening thousands of miles away in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
“I think pressure on Kosovo started during the administration of President Trump, where United States envoys to the Balkans wanted to score a diplomatic success. And that's where the pressure started. Now, with war (in Ukraine), it is certainly normal and natural that the West seeks to see the issue resolved, to see Serbia fully in the Western camp and linked to the European Union in the most positive way possible. But precisely because of tensions between Russia and Ukraine, this is unlikely to happen. Problems between Kosovo and Serbia are related to what happens between Russia and Ukraine. And these problems reflect the biggest geopolitical tensions in the region“, he said.
