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NATO expects Serbia to ensure accountability for the Banjska attack
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Mark Rutte in the EP
27.01.2026.
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the European Parliament; Phot: NATO
BRUSSELS – NATO expects Serbian authorities to establish accountability for the 
Banjska incident from and the attack on KFOR troops, NATO Secretary General 
Mark Rutte said in Brussels speaking at a joint session of the European 
Parliament’s Committees on Foreign Affairs and Security and Defence.
Rute said that NATO remains committed to stability in the Western Balkans and 
reiterated the alliance’s well-known position on the attack against KFOR 
personnel outside the Zvečan municipal building in May 2023, as well as the 
clash between an armed group of Serbs and Kosovo police in Banjska in September 
of the same year.
“I have a personal relationship with President Aleksandar Vučić. We have known 
each other for many years. But of course, we expect him to establish 
accountability for what happened a couple of years ago, on two issues. On both 
of them, he has promised full accountability”, Rutte said.
NATO officials have on several occasions publicly stressed that Serbia should 
swiftly bring to justice those responsible for the attack on Kosovo police 
officers in Banjska and KFOR troops in Zvečan.
Speaking in the European Parliament, Mark Rutte also reaffirmed NATO’s support 
for the dialogue aimed at normalising relations between Serbia and Kosovo, and 
reiterated the alliance’s longstanding position that it will not allow a 
security vacuum to emerge in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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