8 hours agoUS diplomat Hanrahan visits Kosovo, countries in region
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(a year ago)U.S. State Department for European Affairs senior official Brendan Hanrahan will start a visit to Kosovo and two other Balkan countries -- Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, reports REL, broadcast Periscope “Observation of ties between the United States and states in the region” -- he has said through [...]
“Prepare eagerly reinforcement of links between the United States and states in the region”, he said through a post on the X platform.
Other details about the visit have not been disclosed.
Hanrahan met a day earlier with Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani at the State Department office in Washington.
Through a Facebook post, she has said that she and the US diplomat have discussed “deepening the strategic partnership between Kosovo and the United States”.
Kosovo is willing to advance co-operation with the United States in key areas such as defence, the economy, as well as strategic investments of mutual interest”, it is said in Osman's post.
As for the visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hanrahan has mentioned Dayton the agreement that has ended the war in Bosnia in 1995, and the importance of the anniversary, which seems to be reference to Srebrenica.
On July 11, 1995, more than 8,300 Bosniaks were killed by the army of Republika Srpska .
The Srebrenica massacre has been named the worst in Europe since World War II and is known as genocide.
In May of last year, the United Nations has adopted a resolution that recognises July 11th as the International Day of the Genocide Memorial in Srebrenica.
So far, over 6,650 victims of genocide have been buried at the Potocari Memorial Centre.
More than 1,000 missing persons are still searching.
Various courts have so far convicted more than 50 people, with more than 700 years in prison, of genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is sentenced to life in prison, as is former Bosnian military leader Ratko Mladic.
