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    What Does Multipolarity Mean for Kosovo?

    BiEPAG Reacts: EC Country Report 2023 on Albania

    Will Serbia be sanctioned for Banjska clashes in North Kosovo?

    The unfinished EU: integrating the Western Balkans as a geostrategic imperative

    The story of the Ulmas’ martyrdom should be known worldwide

    Triangulation of Eurasia: The North-South Corridor Underreported but pivotal for Our Common Future

    Loose lips sink morale

    Albania and Kosovo: the Leaders, the People, the Narrative

    Offensive defence: How Putin saved NATO

  • Interview

    Exclusive/ The Russian Ambassador to Albania Mr. Mikhail Afanasiev: Russia only aims to end that war started by the West in Ukraine

    Exclusive/ Skopje’s top diplomat to Tirana, Dancho Markovski: OSCE Chairmanship a Project of National Importance for North Macedonia

    Exclusive interview of Croatian Ambassador Zlatko Kramaric: ‘There is progress in Croatian-Albanian relations, but it is still not enough’  

    The first anniversary of the appointment as Archbishop at the head of the Catholic Church/ Mons. Arjan Dodaj: Only God can be the author of our walk!

    Azerbaijan’s Ambassador Anar Huseynov: President Aliyev’s visit to Albania opened a new page in our relations through the specific accords reached

    Macedonian Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski: Open Balkans and Berlin Process are complementary processes for progress of cooperation among WB countries

    Exclusive/ China’s Ambassador to Albania Mr. Zhou Ding: China and Albania must look towards history to build the future!

    Appeal of Ukrainian Ambassador to Albania Shkurov for maximum support of Ukraine with weapons six months after Russian occupation

    Zoran Djukanovic: “The Montenegrin minority in Albania and the Albanian minority in Montenegro to be bridges of communication of our two countries”

  • Realpolitik

    From bad to worse in Berlin! Hands off Western Balkans! Electoral expansion of the far right!  Organization of European ( non) security?      

    REALPOLITIK/ A moment’s respite!

    Much ado about nothing! Five problematic “ B-“s with Greece! Hamas divides the world!

    The whole Brussels in Kiev! The third but not the true! Heads high, hands empty! Terrorist Hamas, a democratic and diplomatic failure! Berlin marked the end of absurd dualism!

    European Council President Charles MICHEL, receives Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for Internal Market.  Brussels the 12/01/2021.
Le President du Conseil Europeen, Charles MICHEL, recoit Thierry Breton, Commissaire Europeen chargé du marché interieur. .  Bruxelles le 12/01/2021.,Image: 590631817, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Profimedia

    For a new paradigm by the EU and the USA for Kosovo and Serbia after the terrorist attack by serb bands on 24 september.

    Pacifying without reconciliation! Kurti’s autogoal! Between G – 7 and BRICS 11! The Balkans summer theatre continues! A speech for campaign 2024! A prewarned failure!                             

    Marriage spoiled for a lemon! The missed dinner! Sphinx and challenge for the West! Summer theatre in Bled!

    Peace as wishful thinking! Change the course! Brussels bells toll for Tirana!  Beleri between Tirana, Brussels and Athens! Compare the incomparables!  

    A cold shower! Change the tune! Partnership or vassalage? Euro-Atlantist Meloni!

  • Current Events

    “Serbia`s opposing Ohrid Agreement, closing door to EU membership”

    Edi Rama: If Kosovo would accept my proposal for the Association, it would have a better result

    US declares “non grata” former deputy prime minister of North Macedonia for corruption

    Caspian Economic Forum in Iran to give boost to cooperation between member states — Lavrov

    President Begaj with the residents of Peqin: Let’s promote local products for the preservation of tradition

    In North Macedonia, the political parties agree on the date of the elections

    Tensions in the Albanian Parliament

    COP 28 Climate Summit, Rama: Albania, one of the rare countries that has no carbon dioxide emissions from energy production

    The National Assembly of the Democratic Party/ Berisha warns: Civil disobedience is an action without return

  • Top News

    There is no issue between Türkiye, Greece that cannot be resolved: Turkish president

    Xi Jinping urges China, EU to step up cooperation, handle differences

    Vučić: Ohrid Agreement may be a condition for Serbia’s EU membership

    Acclaimed Albanian artist, Mirush Kabashi, has passed away

    France imposes sanctions on Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar

    China-EU summit to be held in Beijing

    Tensions in the Albanian Parliament

    The National Assembly of the Democratic Party/ Berisha warns: Civil disobedience is an action without return

    Beograd, 15. avgusta 2019 - Ministar spoljnih poslova Ivica Dacic sastao se danas sa ministrom spoljnih poslova Japana Taroom Konom. FOTO TANJUG / SAVA RADOVANOVIC / bb

    Why Vučić does not sign Franco-German plan

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  • OP/ED

    What Does Multipolarity Mean for Kosovo?

    BiEPAG Reacts: EC Country Report 2023 on Albania

    Will Serbia be sanctioned for Banjska clashes in North Kosovo?

    The unfinished EU: integrating the Western Balkans as a geostrategic imperative

    The story of the Ulmas’ martyrdom should be known worldwide

    Triangulation of Eurasia: The North-South Corridor Underreported but pivotal for Our Common Future

    Loose lips sink morale

    Albania and Kosovo: the Leaders, the People, the Narrative

    Offensive defence: How Putin saved NATO

  • Interview

    Exclusive/ The Russian Ambassador to Albania Mr. Mikhail Afanasiev: Russia only aims to end that war started by the West in Ukraine

    Exclusive/ Skopje’s top diplomat to Tirana, Dancho Markovski: OSCE Chairmanship a Project of National Importance for North Macedonia

    Exclusive interview of Croatian Ambassador Zlatko Kramaric: ‘There is progress in Croatian-Albanian relations, but it is still not enough’  

    The first anniversary of the appointment as Archbishop at the head of the Catholic Church/ Mons. Arjan Dodaj: Only God can be the author of our walk!

    Azerbaijan’s Ambassador Anar Huseynov: President Aliyev’s visit to Albania opened a new page in our relations through the specific accords reached

    Macedonian Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski: Open Balkans and Berlin Process are complementary processes for progress of cooperation among WB countries

    Exclusive/ China’s Ambassador to Albania Mr. Zhou Ding: China and Albania must look towards history to build the future!

    Appeal of Ukrainian Ambassador to Albania Shkurov for maximum support of Ukraine with weapons six months after Russian occupation

    Zoran Djukanovic: “The Montenegrin minority in Albania and the Albanian minority in Montenegro to be bridges of communication of our two countries”

  • Realpolitik

    From bad to worse in Berlin! Hands off Western Balkans! Electoral expansion of the far right!  Organization of European ( non) security?      

    REALPOLITIK/ A moment’s respite!

    Much ado about nothing! Five problematic “ B-“s with Greece! Hamas divides the world!

    The whole Brussels in Kiev! The third but not the true! Heads high, hands empty! Terrorist Hamas, a democratic and diplomatic failure! Berlin marked the end of absurd dualism!

    European Council President Charles MICHEL, receives Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for Internal Market.  Brussels the 12/01/2021.
Le President du Conseil Europeen, Charles MICHEL, recoit Thierry Breton, Commissaire Europeen chargé du marché interieur. .  Bruxelles le 12/01/2021.,Image: 590631817, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Profimedia

    For a new paradigm by the EU and the USA for Kosovo and Serbia after the terrorist attack by serb bands on 24 september.

    Pacifying without reconciliation! Kurti’s autogoal! Between G – 7 and BRICS 11! The Balkans summer theatre continues! A speech for campaign 2024! A prewarned failure!                             

    Marriage spoiled for a lemon! The missed dinner! Sphinx and challenge for the West! Summer theatre in Bled!

    Peace as wishful thinking! Change the course! Brussels bells toll for Tirana!  Beleri between Tirana, Brussels and Athens! Compare the incomparables!  

    A cold shower! Change the tune! Partnership or vassalage? Euro-Atlantist Meloni!

  • Current Events

    “Serbia`s opposing Ohrid Agreement, closing door to EU membership”

    Edi Rama: If Kosovo would accept my proposal for the Association, it would have a better result

    US declares “non grata” former deputy prime minister of North Macedonia for corruption

    Caspian Economic Forum in Iran to give boost to cooperation between member states — Lavrov

    President Begaj with the residents of Peqin: Let’s promote local products for the preservation of tradition

    In North Macedonia, the political parties agree on the date of the elections

    Tensions in the Albanian Parliament

    COP 28 Climate Summit, Rama: Albania, one of the rare countries that has no carbon dioxide emissions from energy production

    The National Assembly of the Democratic Party/ Berisha warns: Civil disobedience is an action without return

  • Top News

    There is no issue between Türkiye, Greece that cannot be resolved: Turkish president

    Xi Jinping urges China, EU to step up cooperation, handle differences

    Vučić: Ohrid Agreement may be a condition for Serbia’s EU membership

    Acclaimed Albanian artist, Mirush Kabashi, has passed away

    France imposes sanctions on Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar

    China-EU summit to be held in Beijing

    Tensions in the Albanian Parliament

    The National Assembly of the Democratic Party/ Berisha warns: Civil disobedience is an action without return

    Beograd, 15. avgusta 2019 - Ministar spoljnih poslova Ivica Dacic sastao se danas sa ministrom spoljnih poslova Japana Taroom Konom. FOTO TANJUG / SAVA RADOVANOVIC / bb

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Will Biden Bail Out ‘George Washington of Kosovo’?

27 November, 2020
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By Peter Lucas

The man Joe Biden once hailed as “the George Washington of Kosovo” now sits in a detention cell in The Hague charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Will President Joe Biden, who has warm connections with Kosovo, help him out?
The man is Hashim Thaci, 52, the pro-American president of Kosovo, who resigned Nov. 5. He was then taken into custody and flown to The Hague, Netherlands, to stand trial before a special European Union sponsored court for actions during a short, nasty war. Thaci has denied all the charges.
Thaci allegedly committed those crimes when he commanded the fierce-fighting Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla uprising against Serbia in 1998-2000, which the U.S. supported. Back then he was viewed as a hero standing for freedom and against tyranny.
His enemies, especially the Serbs, warned that a Kosovo detached from Serbia would eventually unite with neighboring Albania to form a “greater” Albania. That has not happened and may not happen now that Thaci, who favored it, has been damaged.
The KLA was formed after the late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic sought to ethnically cleanse Kosovo of the majority Muslim Albanians, murdering many and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee for their lives to neighboring Albania, North Macedonia and Montenegro.
I was there reporting when U.S planes flew bombing runs over Albania into Serbia. I was also at border crossings when thousands of frightened women, children and the elderly fled from the advancing Serbs into Albania. It looked like something out of World War II.
Now, after years of peace, the people of landlocked Kosovo once again flock to Albania, only this time they arrive as tourists headed to the Albanian beaches along the Adriatic Sea.
Milosevic’s decision to force the Kosovars out of their homeland led to the U.S.-dominated NATO bombing of Serbia by President Bill Clinton, which Biden supported. Biden, then in the Senate, co-sponsored a resolution authorizing air strikes on Serbia.
The bombing, and the threat of U.S. combat forces entering the fray — U.S. Blackhawk and Apache helicopters were lined up at Albanian sites — brought Milosevic to his knees and saw Kosovo emerge as an independent entity, like other former Yugoslav provinces.
Milosevic was arrested in 2001 and charged with war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo during the breakup of Yugoslavia. He died in a prison cell in The Hague in 2006 during his trial.
The U.S. back then considered Thaci and the KLA the “good guys” in the fight against Milosevic.
There is no doubt that atrocities were committed by both sides.
Critics have pointed out that the indictments are an attempt to rewrite history by equating victim Kosovo with aggressor Serbia. It is like blaming both the U.S. and Japan for the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
Thaci, who had been living in Switzerland, returned to Kosovo when the fighting first broke out and eventually became the commander of the KLA. After the fighting ended, he rose to become the first prime minister of an independent Kosovo. He was elected president in 2016.
Biden, no stranger to Kosovo, saw his earlier ties strengthened when he visited the war-torn country with his son Beau Biden in 2001, which is when he first met Thaci. The Bidens traveled to Camp Bondsteel, the main U.S. base under KFOR (Kosovo Force), NATO’s peace keeping force.
Beau Biden had volunteered to serve as an adviser to Kosovo’s nascent judicial system and Joe Biden, then in the Senate, accompanied him.
Biden as vice president met again with Prime Minister Thaci in Washington in 2010. It was then that Biden came up with the George Washington remark.
Then in 2016, Biden, still vice president, visited Kosovo again. This time for an emotional event naming a national highway that leads to Camp Bondsteel after Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015.
Thaci, as president, played a key role in renaming the highway and construction of an adjoining monument for Beau Biden.
In moving comments, Biden praised Thaci for showing “great courage” in bringing democracy to Kosovo.
Now Biden heads to the White House and Thaci heads to trial. /bostonherald.com

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