Protest in Zvecan, May 31 2023 (BETAPHOTO/SASA DJORDJEVIC)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) still expects the authorities in Serbia to make sure that those responsible for violence in Kosovo in 2023 are prosecuted, a senior official of the Western military alliance said in The Hague, on June 23.
"We keep urging Serbia to make sure that those responsible for the 2023 violence in Kosovo are brought to justice," the NATO official told reporters a day before the NATO summit in The Hague.
The North Atlantic Alliance’s official referred to those responsible for the attack on the Kosovo Force (KFOR) soldiers in front of the Zvecan municipal building in May 2023, as well as an armed group of Serbs who clashed with the Kosovo police in the village of Banjska in last September.
The official also stated that the Western Balkans is "a region of strategic importance" for NATO and that it "remains high on the agenda" of the Western military alliance, adding that it "will not allow a security vacuum to emerge."
"The decades of hard-won peace must not be jeopardized. Stability in the region depends on whether all sides choose dialogue and cooperation over violence. NATO makes important military contributions, but the path to lasting peace is political," he said.
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