{"id":85213,"date":"2026-07-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=85213"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:59:01","slug":"u-s-congressman-says-paunovics-statement-disqualifies-belgrade-from-hosting-the-osce-assembly-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/u-s-congressman-says-paunovics-statement-disqualifies-belgrade-from-hosting-the-osce-assembly-in-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Congressman says Paunovic\u2019s statement disqualifies Belgrade from hosting the OSCE Assembly in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US Congressman Joe Wilson has called Serbian minister Snezhana Paunovic\u2019s statement \u201cdisgusting,\u201d after she said that she \u201cwould have ethnically cleansed Kosovo\u201d if she had been in Slobodan Milosevic\u2019s position in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Wilson, the senior official\u2019s comments demonstrate that the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly should not consider Belgrade\u2019s bid to host the 2027 annual meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe OSCE is designed to&nbsp;build consensus in Europe, not to reignite ethnic tensions,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;he said, as reported by KosovaPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paunovic\u2019s remarks about the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo were made during a program on the Serbian channel Kurir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KosovaPress reported on her fascist statements, which have since drawn reactions from political actors in the region and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, on Thursday of last week (July 16, 2026), an official request was also submitted for her dismissal from the position of minister in Serbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Congressman Joe Wilson has called Serbian minister Snezhana Paunovic\u2019s statement \u201cdisgusting,\u201d after she said that she \u201cwould have ethnically cleansed Kosovo\u201d if she had been in Slobodan Milosevic\u2019s position in 1999. According to Wilson, the senior official\u2019s comments demonstrate that the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly should not consider Belgrade\u2019s bid to host the 2027 annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":85214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,296],"tags":[8595,522,8562],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85213"}],"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=85213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85215,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85213\/revisions\/85215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}