Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti has held Serbia accountable for trying to annex part of Kosovo following an incursion of Serb gunmen who killed a police officer last year.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti accuses Western officials of 'appeasement' towards Serbia amid fears of Belgrade moving closer to Moscow. Kurti criticized the EU for failing to serve as a referee in the implementation of a deal to normalize Kosovo-Serbia relations.

Kosovo plans to exercise full sovereignty over its own affairs and will resist western pressure to compromise with former governing power Serbia, the prime minister of the Balkan nation has said. Defending a series of moves by Pristina that have stripped Belgrade of influence over aspects of life in Kosovo,

Serbia has demanded that an election be held and ethnic Serbs return to police and judiciary in a Serb-populated northern region of Kosovo where tensions have fueled fears of instability and new armed clashes.