{"id":39282,"date":"2022-07-04T13:34:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T11:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=39282"},"modified":"2022-07-04T13:34:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T11:34:37","slug":"kurti-if-serbia-was-an-actual-democracy-it-wouldnt-be-threatening-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kurti-if-serbia-was-an-actual-democracy-it-wouldnt-be-threatening-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurti: If Serbia was an actual democracy, it wouldn\u2019t be threatening the region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo\u2019s PM Albin Kurti called Serbia a danger to peace in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Through a status posted on this social media account on July 4 \u2013 the day when the United States of America celebrated its Independence Day \u2013 Kurti stated that democracy doesn\u2019t protect itself, on the contrary, democratic nations are the ones that step in and must do the defending.<\/p>\n<p>Kurti also mentioned Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine as well as the danger that the Balkan region has to face because of Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Russia was a genuine democracy, it would\u2019ve most likely never invaded Ukraine. Likewise, if Serbia was a genuine democracy, it would have never turned into a serious threat to peace in our region. In this sense, president Biden\u2019s important efforts to promote democratic values across the globe, can be simultaneously understood as an effort to protect peace across nations. However, it is precisely the lack of intent from democratic nations to be involved in armed conflicts that pushes autocrats like Putin or Milosevic in the past, to think that attacks against smaller democratic nations will avoid judgment,\u201d wrote Kurti on his social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo\u2019s PM Albin Kurti called Serbia a danger to peace in the region. Through a status posted on this social media account on July 4 \u2013 the day when the United States of America celebrated its Independence Day \u2013 Kurti stated that democracy doesn\u2019t protect itself, on the contrary, democratic nations are the ones that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":39283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kurti: If Serbia was an actual democracy, it wouldn\u2019t be threatening the region - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kurti-if-serbia-was-an-actual-democracy-it-wouldnt-be-threatening-the-region\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kurti: If Serbia was an actual democracy, it wouldn\u2019t be threatening the region - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kosovo\u2019s PM Albin Kurti called Serbia a danger to peace in the region. 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