Tadic: State Department warned Djindjic over Kosovo policy

NEWS 22.02.202322:05
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Former Serbian President Boris Tadic said on Wednesday that he was told by State Department officials in 2003 that they would try to prevent the late Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic from changing the international community’s approach to Kosovo.

Tadic, a former Yugoslav Defense Minister, told the state Radio TV Vojvodina (RTV) that the officials said Djindjic should know that they would stop his initiative because it ran counter to US interests. According to him, those words were an extremely serious warning which he passed on to Djindjic.

He added that he did not mention the warning on Insajder TV to draw a connection with the assassination of Prime Minister Djindjic.

Tadic said he believes the US made a strategic mistake in terms of Serbia and the Balkans in general. The US decided at the time to insist on Kosovo’s independence. He said Washington is wrong not to abandon the doctrine defined by the 1999 air strikes among other things, adding that the creation of a Greater Albania is five or 10 years will be the consequence of Western policy.