There is only one Italian general who can end the

There is only one Italian general who can end the war between Serbia and Kosovo

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Serbia has submitted an official request to the NATO peacekeeping force present in the region, which became formally autonomous in 2008 and has become the scene of high tensions between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, to station 1,000 members of its security forces in northern Kosovo.

Now an Italian, General Ristuccia at the head of the KFOR mission, has to agree to Belgrade’s request for 1,000 soldiers and police officers. According to President Vucic, based on the text of United Nations Resolution 1244, Ristuccia could not react negatively.

A clause of 1999 UN Security Council Resolution 1244 – in addition to sanctioning the international presence of the United Nations and NATO in the region – guaranteed Belgrade the possibility of intervention to ensure the security of Serbs and their property, as well as the Orthodox churches and Monasteries in the republic that became independent in 2008.

“We have received the letter from Serbia and we are currently considering this application,” KFOR said in a statement to the media in Pristina, adding that it was “extremely vigilant and fully capable of fulfilling its mandate received from the United Nations.” to fulfill”. .

Only yesterday the Republic of Kosovo made an official application to join the European Union, but the path will be anything but easy, if not impossible, considering Greece, Spain, Slovakia, Romania and Cyprus are five member countries. in this sense he let it be known that he had received

Belgrade has “strong assurances” from the five EU member states that do not recognize Kosovo’s independence “that they will not change this position”. This was stated by the nation’s foreign minister, Ivica Dacic, who added that he, along with President Aleksandar Vucic, is “in constant contact with these countries” and that, as he said, “their position on Kosovo is the same as before”. .

The crisis between Serbia and Kosovo had deepened following the dispatch of military personnel from Pristina, which controls the Serbian enclave of Mitrovica in the north of the Kosovar Republic, with Serbs continuing to set up roadblocks and barricades in protest at the arrest of a former Serb agent in the Kosovar Police and in general opposed to Pristina’s policy, which is seen as hostile to the local Serb population.