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Western ambassadors are not boycotting Kosovo’s Liberation Day, Switzerland

The ambassadors of the US, Germany, France, Britain and Italy boycotted the reception in Pristina on Monday evening to mark Kosovo’s liberation day.

Only the ambassadors of Switzerland and Saudi Arabia were present, media quoted by the Italian news agency Ansa as saying.

Representatives of the opposition parties were also absent from the reception. Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani and Prime Minister Albin Kurti were invited.

The reason for the boycott of the quintet was probably irritation with Pristina’s handling of the crisis in northern Kosovo, as Ansa went on to write. The five countries had called on Kosovo to quickly de-escalate tensions between the ethnic groups. In early June, the European Union threatened sanctions over the recent outbreak of violence between Serbia and Kosovo.

Liberation Day commemorates June 12, 1999. After the end of the war, nearly 40,000 men of the NATO Military Alliance (KFOR) marched into Kosovo on that day. A peace agreement had been signed three days earlier in Kumanovo in North Macedonia. Slobodan Milosevic, the then Serbian ruler, withdrew his troops from Kosovo. (sda)

Soource :Watson

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