US-Kosovo Diplomatic Spat Casts Shadow on Bilateral Relations

FILE – Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti speaks to reporters in Ohrid, North Macedonia, March 18, 2023. washington —

The United States and Kosovo are continuing to engage in an unusual public spat, after the staunch U.S. ally’s prime minister, Albin Kurti, resisted calls to take steps that the West says are necessary to de-escalate ethnic tensions in the country’s north.

Tensions flared last week as ethnic Albanian mayors entered municipal buildings with the backing of police, despite having won with only 3.5 percent of the vote in local elections that ethnic Serbs boycotted.U.S. Special Envoy for the Western Balkans Gabriel […]

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