Tension soars as main Kosovo border crossing with Serbia closed

by The Manila Times

Dec 30, 2022 12:02 am

Belgrade, Serbia: Kosovo's biggest border crossing with Serbia was closed on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) as months of tensions again flared, prompting Washington and Brussels to urge an immediate de-escalation of tensions.

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, but Belgrade has refused to recognize it and encouraged Kosovo's 120,000 ethnic Serbs to defy Pristina's authority -- especially in the north where ethnic Serbs make up the majority.

Italian soldiers serving in a NATO-led international peacekeeping mission in Kosovo patrol near a road barricaded with trucks by Serbs in the village of Rudare near the town of Zvecan on Dec. 26, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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