Edi Rama calls on EU and US for a peace conference to prevent further escalation of the situation in Kosovo

(Patria) - Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has called on the Euro-Atlantic community to convene an extraordinary peace conference to prevent further escalation of the situation in Kosovo and to preserve peace in the region.

"The tragedy of the loss of life of Kosovo Police officers is the biggest alarm bell so far about the continuous risk of the long-term crisis escalating into armed conflict. The criminals who took the life of an innocent man, who served in the state uniform of the law enforcement forces of the Republic of Kosovo, must be brought to justice," Rama said in a post on platform X, after the murder of a Kosovo Police officer in the village of Banjska, in the municipality of Zvečan.

He added that "the Euro-Atlantic community must gather all its impressive strength and irreversibly bring Kosovo and Serbia to the dialogue table for normalization".

"Convening an extraordinary peace conference, under the supervision and guarantee of the European Union and the United States of America, and at the same time taking all extraordinary measures with KFOR, to prevent further escalation of the situation, are strategically necessary not only for order and security in Kosovo today, but also for the peace and future of the region tomorrow, before the prolonged crisis in northern Kosovo gets out of control and turns into a destabilizing fire for the entire region," Rama stated.