Friday, 24 April 2015

Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry issued a press release on Wednesday to express its deep concern after the border incident in which a group of 40 armed men briefly took over the police station in the Macedonian village of Gosince, close to the border with Kosovo, on Tuesday morning.

“It is with deep concern that we receive the report of the attack on the night of April 21st, by a group of armed men on the Macedonian border post of Gosince, on the Kosovo part of the border between Macedonia and Serbia. The incident on the Macedonian border shows that there are deep ethnic tensions and a potential for conflict in this part of the Balkans. This situation is primarily affected by the serious deficit of security and respect for the rule of law on Kosovo, which is a consequence of the failure to solve the Kosovo issue in its entirety. We also should pay attention to the increasingly frequent Great Albanian calls in the region. We hope that the Macedonian authorities will return order in the troubled region and will receive the necessary international support”, the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry writes in its press release.

The Ministry further describes the incident, that happened during the night between Monday and Tuesday, when the group disarmed the four policemen at the remote station and videotaped as they beat one of the policemen and issued ethnic and political threats against Macedonia.

Serbian Political analysts M. Lozanski for media in Belgrade stated the US is behind the staged Goshince incident, all of it tied to the gas pipeline scheduled to connect Turkey, Greece, Macedonia to Serbia and Hungary.

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/27301/1/

Categories: Escalation / Destabilization Conflict