After meeting with Kurti, CIA chief wraps up Kosovo visit

On the morning of August 23rd, for about an hour he met with Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti at the Kosovo Government building.

After this meeting, according to the flight tracking site, Flightrader, the US Army aircraft, which is travelling Burns, has left Pristina International Airport, “Adem Jashari”.

Prime Minister Kurti was in the United States this week, where at the invitation of the National Democratic Institute, he conveyed the National Assembly of the Democratic Party.

He has not yet been declared about meeting with the top American intelligence official.

A day earlier, Burns met in Pristina with Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, and with the head of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency (AKI), Petit Ajeti.

President Osmani confirmed the meeting with CIA head William Burns on August 23rd.

“Aleance with the United States, security guarantee, peace and success”, she wrote on Facebook.

The CIA chief's visit to Kosovo follows visits that the leading American intelligence official held in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.

In Sarajevo on August 20th, Burns met with the director of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Intelligence and Security Agency, Almir Juvo, and with Bosnian Presidency members Denis Becirovovic, Zelko Komsic and Zelka Cvianovic, a US-sponsored Serb member.

The American government told Radio Europe Free Europe that during meetings in Sarajevo “they discussed issues of common interest, including territorial integrity and Bosnia and Herzegovina's sovereignty”.

During the visit, according to American spokesperson Burns also discussed the Sescertist rhetoric and the actions of Milorad Dodik, the prorus president of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Serb entity, Republika Srpska.

A day later, Dodik declared that “I have never rejected” Bosnia and Herzegovina's sovereignty and territorial integrity in accordance with the Dayton Accords, while secession “has never been our policy”.

As for the visit to Belgrade, it is unknown who Burns has met.

Burns' visit to Kosovo comes at a time when US Ambassador to Kosovo Jeffrey Havenier has said his state has been challenged in some respects by the Government of Kosovo, led by Albin Kurti.

The US and other European Union countries have criticised several recently undertaken decisions and actions by the Kurti Government, which are considered as unilateral “” and uncoordinated “ ”.

Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department has asked Kurti Government to return to <x0 constructive and close” with Washington, the European Union and NATO, while Washington is also demanding that Kosovo institutions not open the bridge over the Iber River for circulation, calling for security concerns.

Otherwise, on the noon of August 22nd at Pristina International Airport “Adem Jashar”, Radio Europe free reporters saw an American Army plane stopped in the “area. VIP<x3 of the airport.

On this plane, Burns is believed to have traveled to other countries in the region. Meanwhile, according to the website for tracking flights, Flightrader, this plane introduced 22 August from Belgrade towards Bulgaria, North Macedonia and the end of Kosovo.

Burns is a former US ambassador to Russia. He is a central figure in the administration of the American president, Joe Biden, as he is also a member of the White House's presidential cabinet.

He was appointed by President Biden to the post of CIA director in January 2021. /REL