Kosovo Asserts Statehood With Vote To Create Army

On Friday, Kosovo has approved laws to create its own an army declaring its statehood in an advance that has provoked stress with Serbia that does not be familiar with the former independence of province.

After experiencing a bloody separatist war in capital of Serbia started 1998 until 99, Kosovo has been protected by the NATO-led peacekeeping troops.

It is said to be that newly approved regulations will be enhancing the size of a small crisis-response outfit, the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) by getting start a national defence mandate for a professional army of 5,000 soldiers.

Kadri Veseli, who is a Deputy of the Assembly of Kosovo, said in report, “This vote today begins a new era for our country. From this moment we officially have the army of Kosovo,” although MPs have also agreed new laws by hugging each other at end of the session, while minority Serb politicians had boycotted this advance.

Nonetheless, the vote will be bringing joy for many Kosovo Albanians who has set all to celebrate the military formation which to come as a new pillar of their independence, which was announced in 2008.

The 37-year-old hairdresser Skender Arifi from Pristina told media that new laws to make army for protection of their state bring makes believe that they are nation now because with existence of army state is nothing.

Kosovo’s administration’s advance is a mostly symbolic expression of its sovereignty, although Serbia has criticized the move calling it a threat to regional stability because they are still at point that the former province a renegade land.

Ana Brnabic, Serbian Prime Minister, announced his views just after the vote, believed “a hard day,” though his nation would “stay on its path of peace and prosperity”.

One most important thing is that capital of Serbia has rung the alarm over the safety of 120,000 Serbs those are still in Albanian-majority Kosovo, mostly in the north which is near contested boundary.

However, huge castigation comes out over the Kosovo’s army plan from those who are belonging Serb communities as loyal to Belgrade.