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US Backs Kosovo’s Plan To Create Army

by Agence France-Presse
December 10, 2018
in Army News
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US Backs Kosovo’s Plan To Create Army

PRISTINA, KOSOVO - MARCH 05: Soldiers are seen during an event organized to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Prekaz massacre at Adem Jashari Barracks in Pristina, Kosovo on March 5, 2018. The Attack on Prekaz, also known as the Prekaz massacre, was an operation led by the Special Anti-Terrorism Unit of Serbia on 5 March 1998 to capture Albanian terrorists. During the operation, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader Adem Jashari and his brother Hamez were killed, along with more than 50 other family members. Erkin Keci / Anadolu Agency, Image: 365147182, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Profimedia, Abaca

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Washington supports Kosovo’s plans to create its own army, the US ambassador to Pristina said Thursday, signalling a rift with NATO, which is against the move, reported AFP.

Kosovo, a former Serbian province that declared independence in 2008, is expected to vote next Friday on whether to transform its lightly-armed emergency force, Kosovo Security Force (KSF), into a national army.

Since the end of the 1998-99 war that effectively cleaved it from Serbia, Kosovo has been defended by international NATO-led troops.

On Thursday NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg stressed that Kosovo’s army plans are “ill-timed” and go “against the advice of many NATO allies.”

But Washington is fully behind the move, US ambassador Philip Kosnett told state broadcaster RTK in Pristina.

“We think that KSF’s evolution into Kosovo’s armed forces is a positive step and that it is only natural for Kosovo as a sovereign and independent country to have its own defence capability,” he said, adding that the US has invested money and training in the emergency force’s development.

“This is a process that will take many years,” he added.

Belgrade has led the charge in raising concern over Kosovo’s army plans, which it has cast as a threat to the 120,000 Serbs still living in the former southern province.

Serbia refuses to recognise Kosovo’s independence and still considers it a renegade territory.

Speaking about Pristina’s army plans Wednesday, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said: “I hope that we will never have to use our army, but at this moment it is one of the options on the table”.

More than 13,000 people, mostly ethnic Albanians, were killed in the 1998-1999 war between ethnic Albanian guerillas in Kosovo and Serbian forces.

The conflict ended when a NATO bombing forced Serb troops to withdraw.

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