Yury Pilipson, Head of the Fourth European Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expressed the view that Western countries are trying every possible way to force Serbia to recognize Kosovo’s independence. The diplomat said this in an interview. TASS.
According to him, the news spread about the so-called Franco-German settlement project with Washington’s help was further proof that the Western states were trying to force the Serbs to give up their national interests, territorial integrity and one way or another. agrees with the “stateness” of Kosovo.
In the same interview, Pilipson declarationThe West has brought the situation around Kosovo to the brink of armed conflict.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on 10 December that Belgrade will send an official request to the NATO KFOR mission command for the deployment of Serbian police and military personnel in Kosovo and Metohija. On December 11, the head of state called an emergency meeting of the National Security Council in connection with the worsening of the situation in northern Kosovo. In particular, the special forces of the self-proclaimed Kosovo police occupied an object in the Gazivode dam in the predominantly Serb municipality of Zubin Potok.
On December 16, it was learned that Serbia was. delivery NATO mission request to bring army and police in Kosovo.