{"id":1057,"date":"2022-10-14T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2024-10-28T12:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T10:26:56","slug":"dezinformata-per-inkursion-te-fsk-se-ne-zubin-potok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/disinfo\/dezinformata-per-inkursion-te-fsk-se-ne-zubin-potok\/","title":{"rendered":"Disinformation about the \u201cincursion\u201d of the KSF in Zubin Potok"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 26, 2022, the media in Serbian language \"Novosti<\/a>\" published a news with the claim that a convoy of cars of the Kosovo Security Force (FSK) passed through Zubin Potok. It made the claim without relying on reliable sources of information. The largest political entity representing Kosovo Serbs, \u201cLista Serbe\u201d (LS) and the director of the so-called Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, Petar Petkovic, reacted regarding this issue.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter the illegal construction of police bases in the north of Kosovo and the introduction of regular patrols around Lake Ujman, contrary to all previous agreements so far, the authorities in Pristina went a step further by jeopardizing\/threatening the peace in our southern province\u201d is said in this reaction.<\/p>\n

Whereas\u00a0Lista Serbe<\/a>\u00a0wrote on its Facebook account: \u201cThe illegal incursion of members of the Kosovo Security Forces in the territory of the municipality of Zubin Potok is a serious violation of the 2013 agreement, guaranteed by NATO, which guarantees that no armed formation of Pristina can occupy the Serbian municipalities in the north without the approval of the mayors of these municipalities and the KFOR commander.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover,\u00a0Petkovic himself reacted\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0by saying that, \u201cthis is a direct violation of the 2013 agreement with the Secretary General of NATO, according to which members of any military formation coming from Pristina do not have the right to stay in the north of Kosovo and Metohija without the double approval of KFOR and the four Serbian presidents from the north.\u201d This news was also distributed by other Serbian media such as:\u00a0Pravda.rs<\/a>,\u00a0Kurir.rs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Politika.rs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kosovo,\u00a0Armend Mehaj<\/a>, has denied the information distributed by Serbian officials regarding the presence of the KSF in Zubin Potok.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ministry of Defense denies the false news that has circulated in some Serbian media about the alleged movement of KSF troops in the area of the municipality of Zubin Potok. We carry out all training and operational activities in cooperation and coordination with local and international authorities, respectively KFOR, in accordance with our constitutional and legal mandate,\u201d Mehaj wrote in his post. The Ministry of Defense has also distributed the same reaction, but only in the Albanian language.<\/p>\n

According to a 2013 agreement between the institutions of Kosovo and NATO, which continues to be in force, the KSF can be placed in the northern municipalities of Kosovo only with special permission from the KFOR Commander. In the\u00a0letter exchange<\/a>\u00a0between the former president Hashim Thaqi and the general secretary of NATO, guarantees are given that the KSF \u201cwill undertake a mission in the north of Kosovo only with the prior agreement of KFOR.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the claims of Serbian officials, such a permit does not apply to the Kosovo Police (KP), which has a mandate to extend rule of law and fight smuggling throughout the country. The Serbian officials, in some cases, have qualified it as pressure on the population in the north, the actions of the KP to establish law and order in that part as well.<\/p>\n

*This article is published as part of the Western Balkans Regional Initiative against disinformation. <\/em>\u201cWestern Balkans Anti-Disinformation Hub: exposing malign influences through watchdog journalism.\u201d<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Media n\u00eb gjuh\u00ebn serbe \u201cNovosti\u201d m\u00eb 26 shtator 2022 ka publikuar nj\u00eb lajm me pretendimin se n\u00eb Zubin Potok ka kaluar nj\u00eb kolon\u00eb e makinave t\u00eb Forc\u00ebs s\u00eb Siguris\u00eb s\u00eb Kosov\u00ebs (FSK). Pretendimin e ka b\u00ebr\u00eb pa u bazuar n\u00eb burime t\u00eb sigurta informacioni. Lidhur me k\u00ebt\u00eb \u00e7\u00ebshtje ka reaguar edhe subjekti m\u00eb i madh […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1241,363],"tags":[633,11,647,634,12],"ppma_author":[28],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debunking","category-disinfo","tag-disinformation","tag-kosova","tag-ksf","tag-north-of-kosovo","tag-serbia"],"authors":[{"term_id":28,"user_id":18,"is_guest":0,"slug":"disinfo","display_name":"Disinfo","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sbunker_FAKE_NEWS_001-min1647858578.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sbunker_FAKE_NEWS_001-min1647858578.jpg"},"user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"Disinfo","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}