Kosovo's prime minister on Thursday complained of bias against his country from the United States and the European Union and tolerance of what he called Serbia's authoritarian regime.
After the soldiers were injured last week, NATO said it would send an additional 700 troops to northern Kosovo.
The clashes grew out of an earlier confrontation after ethnic Albanian candidates who were declared the winners of local elections in northern Kosovo entered municipal buildings to take office and were blocked by Serbs. Ethnic Serbs overwhelmingly boycotted the votes. Kurti insisted the special police forces could not be “downsized” until criminal Serb gangs either left the country or were arrested. He said there was peace in Kosovo if there were no “orders for violence from Belgrade.”
He said they urged Kosovo to make electoral amendments but did not put pressure on the ethnic Serbs’ only political party to take part in the vote.
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