"It's fake news that Trump wants Kosovo to have army"

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"It's fake news that Trump wants Kosovo to have army"

Analyst Obrad Kesic says the news that the Trump administration wants "the state" of Kosovo to have its own army is - fake.

Speaking for Russia's Sputnik agency, Kesic said the manner in which the U.S. Senate confirmation hearing of James Mattis was presented in Serbia represents "a completely fake picture of America's new foreign policy."

During the January 12 hearing, Mattis, who has since been confirmed as U.S. secretary of defense, said that "before it would be prudent to reduce the U.S. military presence, the Kosovo Security Forces must receive a mandate to conduct domestic security and territorial defense, a shift that will require constitutional change with parliamentary support."

"First, this has been presented as the official stance of the administration, while the future minister said it during the hearing, therefore, before he became secretary of defense. Second, he spoke in the context of the policy being carried out by the U.S. administration for more than ten years and in front of the members of a committee that includes the biggest hawks when it comes not only to the issue of Kosovo and Serbs in the Balkans, but also Russia," Kesic said.

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A bit of a kerfuffle on this if one searches the news out.