As Russia wages an unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine, comparisons between Ukraine's plight and NATO's Balkan interventions of the 1990s have ...
In this ruthless venture driven by ego and hyper-nationalist aspirations, Putin once again cites the NATO bombing of Serbiia as precedent for his war of aggression against Ukraine, co-opting Western norms, legal standards, and humanitarian principles for his own geopolitical purposes, as he did with Crimea. They are the fuel, the equalization of blame, that imperialist ambitions crave. In the case of NATO’s interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo, regime change was a reluctant aftermath at best. Kosovo continues to make sacrifices for the mere chance of international recognition. But it is nothing like the events and objectives that preceded NATO’s Kosovo intervention in 1999. Despite this, the West was desperate to safeguard Balkan stability by refusing to take sides.
Kosovo asked the US to set up a permanent military base in the country and accelerate its Nato accession following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kosovo's defence minister said on February 28. Kosovo fears that the Russia-Ukraine conflict may ...
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The figures suggest a significant improvement in judicial cooperation between Serbia and Kosovo since a mechanism was agreed with the EU in 2013.
Despite this, the Republic of Kosovo has expressed its readiness for collaboration.” Under Kosovo law, a foreign citizen must be released if the country of origin does not cooperate on extradition proceedings within 40 days. When Milan Radojicic turned his car around at the border between Serbia and Kosovo this month, leaving his documents in the hands of the Kosovo border police, the powerful Kosovo Serb businessman-turned-politician did not just evade likely arrest. The Special Prosecution did not respond to emailed questions. The figures suggest a significant improvement in judicial cooperation between Serbia and Kosovo since a mechanism was agreed with the EU in 2013. These structures still exist, complicating and sometimes hampering judicial cooperation with Pristina. It did not explain the disparity. Though named in the indictment, he was not formally charged. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Cooperation appears to have improved since, at least on paper. Serbia does not recognise Kosovo documents addressed as arriving from “the Republic of Kosovo”, while Kosovo does not accept documents addressed to “Kosovo and Metohija,” the official name Serbia uses for a country it still regards as part of its own territory. In response to BIRN’s report on Kurtaj’s comments, the office of the EU special representative in Kosovo said on January 25 that as of 2013, “the judicial cooperation between Pristina and Belgrade exists and is functioning properly” on the basis of the Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance, which was amended in 2015.