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Trump Takes Credit For Ending Kosovo War, Which Ended In 1999 

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You are wrong yet again. The President made no such statement. Although the war ended in 1999, "tension" between the two countries has been ongoing, sometimes resulting in mass casualties. That's what President Trump targeted.

Below, I've provided a link to a decent article explaining the Serbia/Kosovo situation. As you can see (if you'll just open your eyes), France and Germany had recently tried but failed to broker a solution. President Trump then stepped in. Thanks to his superior negotiation skills, he did not fail. The result was remarkable.

I've excerpted the section that is most relevant to this discussion. The two countries may be naming a disputed reservoir for him (Lake Trump), and he has been put in for yet another Nobel Peace Prize.

A history of tension: Serbia-Kosovo relations explained
http://www.euronews.com/2019/05/28/a-history-of-tension-serbia-kosovo-relations-explained


Ongoing tensions

One setback was the murder in January 2018 of Oliver Ivanovic, an ethnic-Serb politician in northern Kosovo. After he was gunned down, talks on normalising relations were further postponed. Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic called the killing "an act of terrorism".

At the end of that year, Kosovo raised customs duties on imports from Serbia to 100% after Belgrade blocked Kosovo's bid to join Interpol. In addition to this, Kosovo decided to upgrade its security force into an army, which Serbia sees as a potential threat that could trigger a military response from Belgrade.

But on April 29th, Kosovar and Serbian presidents, Hashim Thaçi and Aleksandar Vucic, will sit at the negotiating table in a meeting organised by France and Germany since talks were suspended in 2015 to try and find concrete solutions to their impasse.

In an interview with Euronews, the British ambassador to Kosovo, Ruairi O'Connell, said there was momentum on both sides to make a deal about the border but that it would take time.

"We don’t need a quick deal, we need the right deal and that needs both sides to come prepared and to talk to their people and get ready to sit down at the table seriously," he said.

However, the talks led to nowhere since Kosovo refused to levy the tariffs.




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