Those who carry out Vučić’s orders to destabilise the north of Kosovo must face justice,” Osmani tweeted. “Serb illegal structures turned into criminal gangs have attacked Kosovo police, Kfor officers & journalists. Kosovo’s president, Vjosa Osmani, accused her Serbian counterpart of destabilising Kosovo. The US ambassador and European Union envoy have summoned the ethnic Albanian mayors to a meeting in Pristina in a bid to ease tensions.įrance said it “condemns this violence in the strongest possible terms and calls on all parties, in particular the Kosovo government, to take immediate steps to reduce tensions”. It is essential to avoid further unilateral actions by the Kosovo authorities and for all parties to take a step back to lower tensions”. The country’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said: “We will not tolerate further attacks against Kfor. Hungary’s defence minister said on Facebook that more than 20 Hungarian soldiers were among the wounded, with seven in serious but stable condition.Įleven Italian soldiers were injured, with three in a serious condition, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said 52 Serbs were hurt, three seriously, in the unrest. Kfor commander, Division General Angelo Michele Ristuccia, criticised the attacks as “unacceptable” and underlined that the Nato mission will “continue to fulfil its mandate impartially”. “While countering the most active fringes of the crowd, several soldiers of the Italian and Hungarian Kfor contingent were the subject of unprovoked attacks and sustained trauma wounds with fractures and burns due to the explosion of incendiary devices,” it said in a statement.
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