Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama has reacted to the serious incident that took place in the north of Kosova, where one officer was murdered and another was injured, as a result of gunfire from criminal groups. In a post on the social network, Rama asks the Euro-Atlantic community to bring Kosova and Serbia to the dialogue table “without a return”.

According to Rama, it is necessary to call an extraordinary peace conference, under the supervision and guarantee of the EU and the US.

Likewise, the head of the Albanian government adds that it is necessary to take measures with KFOR, in order to prevent further escalation of the situation.

“The Euro-Atlantic community must gather all its imposing force and irreversibly seat Kosova and Serbia on the table of the Normalization Dialogue.

Convening an extraordinary peace conference, under the supervision and guarantee of the European Union and the United States, and simultaneously taking all extraordinary measures with KFOR, to prevent further escalation of the situation, are a strategic necessity not only to the order and security in Kosova today, but also to the peace and future of the region tomorrow, before the prolonged crisis in the North of Kosova gets out of control and turns into a destabilizing fire for the entire region,” writes Rama.

The prime minister considers the event as an alarm bell for the risk of this crisis escalating into an armed conflict.

“The tragedy of the loss of life of the Kosova Police officer is the biggest alarm bell to date for the ongoing risk of the continuing crisis to escalate into an armed conflict. Perpetrators who took the life of an innocent man, who served in the state uniform of the law enforcement forces of the Republic of Kosova, must be brought to justice,” emphasizes Rama.

The serious event was recorded in the early hours of this Sunday morning (September 24) in North Mitrovica, at the entrance to the village of Banjska, where armed men blocked the road with trucks and then fired firearms and hand grenades against the Kosova Police. As a result, one officer lost his life and another was injured.

The government of Kosova has accused official Belgrade to be responsible for the attack, while there are still no reactions from politics in Serbia.

The US ambassador to Kosova, Jeffrey Hovenier, strongly condemned the attacks, demanding that the perpetrators be held accountable.

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