Former Czech Leaders: Kosovo is a Terrorist State Czechia Should Not Have Recognized

Kosovo (BETAPHOTO/SASA DJORDJEVIC)

The Czech Republic’s former presidents, Vaclav Klaus and Milos Zeman, agreed on March 13, when Czechia celebrated the 25th anniversary of the country’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), that a decision to bomb the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a huge mistake, and that Kosovo was a terrorist state that Czechia should not have recognized.

"A former Kosovo president, Hashim Thaci, is currently facing trial before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague for war crimes. And he is not alone. A whole range of Kosovo's top officials have been accused. I used to say that, in principle, Kosovo was a terrorist state.  I corroborated the argument with more than just the most drastic cases of organ harvesting, involving living people, too," Zeman said in an interview with the Czech public broadcaster television ČT.

The former Czech president also said that similar violence was recorded on the Serbian side as well, but he emphasized that the extent of it was nowhere near as extensive, and that the violence was not systematic. "Klaus and I had many differences, but it never occurred to either of us to consent to appointing a Czech ambassador to Kosovo," Zeman said.