Stoltenberg visits Kosovo and the region today! Meeting with Vjosa Osmani

2023-11-20 08:45:35Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Stoltenberg visits Kosovo and the region today! Meeting with Vjosa Osmani

The Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, will visit Kosovo today (November 20), as part of a visit to several Balkan countries. Stoltenberg will start his visit to the Balkans first in Bosnia-Herzegovina, while in the afternoon he will arrive in Kosovo, where he is expected to have a meeting with President Vjosa Osmani.

On November 21, the Secretary General of NATO will stop in Serbia and North Macedonia. In the latter, he will stay on November 22.

From the countries of the Western Balkans, Albania, North Macedonia and Montenegro are part of the alliance. State officials of Kosovo have expressed several times the intention to become part of the European Union and NATO.

Last year, the prime minister of Kosovo mentioned that he intends for the country to join the NATO program, Partnership for Peace. The United States has supported this decision of Kosovo, although they have noted that such membership requires the approval of all the countries of the alliance.

Out of 31 NATO member countries, 27 of them have recognized Kosovo as an independent state, while four (Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Spain) have not yet. The Partnership for Peace is a NATO program aimed at building trust between NATO member states and other states in Europe.

Currently, NATO is present in Kosovo through its mission, KFOR. Until November 2023, 4,687 troops from 27 countries of the world have been part of this mission.


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