Kosovo Parliament Approves Resolution against Serbian Terrorist Attack

On Thursday (September 28), the Assembly of Kosovo approved a resolution, which condemns the attack on the Kosovo Police on September 24, in Banjska i Zveçani and mentions the need for an international investigation into Serbia and its role in this attack. 

The resolution was approved with 97 votes in favour, no votes against and no abstentions. 

As a result of clashes between the Police and an armed group in this part in the north of Kosovo - inhabited by a majority of Serbs - one police officer and three attackers died. 

The session of September 28 in the Assembly started with a minute of silence in honour of the murdered police officer Afrim Bunjaku - already declared a hero. 

In the presentation of the resolution, the Speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo, Glauk Konjufca, said that this institution condemns the attack on the Kosovo Police in the strongest terms. 

"Parliament condemns the terrorist attack organized by the Republic of Serbia on the Kosovo Police and asks the international community to exert its influence to confront Serbia with its role in relation to the organization and any support it has given to the terrorist group for the attack in the north of Republic of Kosovo". 

International investigations against Serbia have been requested "in connection with terrorist activities and the continued existence of training camps of terrorist groups in the camp of Serbia". 

In the resolution, the cooperation of the Kosovo Police with the mission of the European Union for the rule of law (EULEX) and the mission of NATO in Kosovo, KFOR, in the "joint action, to repel and annihilate the terrorist attacks organized by Serbia in the north of our country". 

Among other things, Konjufca said that the resolution requires that: 

-the institutions of Kosovo to work in full integration of all communities, without distinction, 
-political pluralism is encouraged and supported in the ranks of the Serbian community in Kosovo, 
-the Government of Kosovo is required to cooperate with international allies, especially the United States, to strengthen the rule of law.