High official of NATO Comes to Kosovo Today Disputing With Ibër Bridge Issue

An important figure comes to Kosovo today.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti at the Government meeting on 28.08.2024 has indicated that the issue of opening the central bridge over the Iber River in Mitrovica is always discussed at meetings he has with various officials of the United States of America and NATO.

Kurti recalled that last week he waited for Central Intelligence Agency Chief William Burns and Admiral Stuart Munch at the meeting. He stressed that the support of these officials “is steadfast” as he added that joint commitment “is serious and productive in the service of peace and security”.

After visiting the United States last week at the time of few guest days, we had them in the prime minister, Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency William Burns and Admiral Stuart Munsch who is commander of NATO's joint Allied forces in Naples. Their support is firm, broad and strong co-operation, while common commitment is serious and productive in the service of peace and security that move in parallel with rule of law and democratic and economic progress” has declared Kurti.

Executive leader announced that visiting Kosovo today will be Thomas Goffus, assistant secretary for operations NATO, meanwhile, will come today in 28.08.2024, the Danish delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will come.

Mr. Thomas Goffus, the assistant secretary for NATO operations, comes tomorrow to visit. Today comes the Danish delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, while next week we will welcome two foreign ministers of the two NATO member states” has indicated.

Kurti says all these meetings also discuss the issue of opening the central bridge over the Iber River.

The topic of opening the central bridge over the Iber River in Mitrovica, for which we are making all the necessary consultations as well as our housework, such as addressing the preliminary draft for the physical sustainability of the bridge as we wait for the final report to be prepared to regulate the environment around us. The opening of the bridge is freedom of movement and freedom of movement is fundamental right both in Kosovo, but also in the European Union”- Kurti stressed.

During his visit to the US on the occasion of the National Democratic Convention, as he discussed with senators and congressers about the terrorist attack in Banjska, Kurti said that they have demanded that there be more pressure from the Western world “on bringing justice to Belgrade's terrorist acts and relevant individuals responsible”.

“Four days ago it was 11 months since Serbia's aggression against our country, when our hero, Africa Bulnjak, was killed. For this attack, Serbia is still not held accountable and follows not to surrender to our authorities, its chief criminal Milan Radojic. Even during my US stay at meetings with senators and congressers, I asked that there be more pressure from the Western and democratic world for bringing justice to the terrorist acts of Belgrade and relevant individuals responsible” -- the prime minister has said.

Burns' visit to the region came 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.

This meeting occurred at a time when US Ambassador Jeffrey Hovenier said Kosovo partnership - The US has been influenced by actions recently undertaken by the Kurti Government, which are considered as unilateral “” and the packaged “”, on the opening issue of the Ibër Bridge.