Kosovo approves new army despite Serb opposition, NATO criticism 0 SHARES Share it! The move is also strongly opposed by Kosovo Serbs’ patron Serbia, which has refused to recognize the independence of its former province and warned that a national Kosovo army could destabilize the Western Balkans. “I regret that this decision was made despite the concerns expressed by NATO,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement on Friday. “The North Atlantic Council will now have to re-examine the level of NATO’s engagement with the Kosovo Security Force,” he said. Kosovo’s independence came almost a decade after a NATO air war halted a two-year counter-insurgency war by Serbian security forces that included arrests, killings and expulsions of ethnic Albanian civilians.

Source: Manila Bulletin December 14, 2018 22:52 UTC