O'Brien: We have been promised that Radoicic will face the law in Serbia
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The US Assistant Secretary of State, James O'Brien, said that Serbia has promised that Milan Radoicic will face the law regarding the September events in Banjska i Zvecani.

Radoicic has taken responsibility for the armed attack by a group of Serbs against the Kosovo Police, which killed a police official. During the exchange of fire on September 24, 2023, three Serbian attackers were also killed.

The American official said during the Dubrovnik forum that he expects Serbia to keep its promise.

"The USA and the EU have consistently said that the crimes committed in September (in Banjska) must be punished. We expect and I believe we have been promised that Radoicic will go through a full legal process in Serbia. It is a good thing that it seems that it is not active in the north of Kosovo, as it was earlier, we see that there are positive benefits from this. He has been charged and we expect the process against him to be completed," said O'Brien.

Speaking about Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, O'Brien said that the possibility of using force to resolve issues should be excluded in the two states.

"I think we should also be clear that the use of force to reach a solution should be excluded. This includes the most sensitive parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the north of Kosovo, and I think that here the relevant state actors have taken strong positions that they do not support the use of force in these areas. But we have to move away from the discussion about violence, state violence. That would allow us to use the tools we have in a way that we think would be productive," O'Brien said.

During the forum in Dubrovnik, where Kosovo was represented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Donika Gërvalla, a statement made by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar, was also mentioned. Vuçiq, who stated that Azerbaijan's leader, Ilham Aliyev, has shown himself to be a good, strategic leader and has "fired when he has to," for the way he has managed to take control of the breakaway region of Nagorno Karabakh.

But O'Brien said this is a misinterpretation by Vuçiq, since Aliyev has expressed his intention to take territories that are internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan.

"We must be clear: No movement in Bosnia, no movement in the north of Kosovo", said O'Brien. /REL

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