{"id":73705,"date":"2025-03-25T13:07:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=73705"},"modified":"2025-03-25T13:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:07:41","slug":"%e2%80%8bclark-serbia-should-recognize-kosovos-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/%e2%80%8bclark-serbia-should-recognize-kosovos-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bClark: Serbia should recognize Kosovo&#8217;s independence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Forces in Europe, General Wesley Clark, stated that Serbia must recognize Kosovo&#8217;s independence. According to him, economic cooperation between the two countries will be inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spoke at a discussion organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Kosovo, marking the 26th anniversary of NATO&#8217;s intervention in Kosovo and the 21st anniversary of the establishment of the American Chamber of Commerce in Kosovo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General Clark encouraged Kosovo to embrace regional cooperation with neighbors such as Albania, North Macedonia, and even Serbia, as reported by the American Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, Serbia will have to accept your independence, and economic cooperation will be inevitable,&#8221; Clark is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He called on Kosovo&#8217;s leaders to follow clean governance, political unity, and maintain a strong balance between the government and the private sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Governments alone cannot stimulate growth \u2013 you need the private sector, especially in information technology and services, where Kosovo&#8217;s talent and language skills can shine,&#8221; Clark said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his conversation with the Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce, Arian Zeka, General Clark noted that Kosovo holds a very important strategic position, offering early warnings about threats to regional stability in the Western Balkans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The world is watching Kosovo, and the best way to strengthen its security is through economic development and investments, especially from the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing Kosovo&#8217;s role in regional and global affairs, General Clark emphasized the fundamental importance of the rule of law, urging Kosovo to &#8220;be proud of it, strengthen it, and use it to build investor trust.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He called for investments in infrastructure and energy, highlighting Kosovo&#8217;s abundant lignite reserves, and advocated for the country&#8217;s digital transformation, improving tax systems, connecting to the broad internet belt, and ensuring cybersecurity to combat disinformation and external subversion.\/KosovaPress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Forces in Europe, General Wesley Clark, stated that Serbia must recognize Kosovo&#8217;s independence. According to him, economic cooperation between the two countries will be inevitable. He spoke at a discussion organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Kosovo, marking the 26th anniversary of NATO&#8217;s intervention in Kosovo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":73707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[5942,726,1943],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73709,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73705\/revisions\/73709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}