Kurti: Kosovo to form army in partnership with Albania and Croatia

Alibin Kurti, a candidate for Kosovo prime minister, claims that a new government in Pristina will form an army "in partnership with Albania and Croatia".

"Previous initiatives to form the army have hit an international wall," Kurti said during a debate on Thursday evening broadcast by the Klan Kosova TV, the KoSSev website reported.

"Our government will not surprise international factors, but will surprise criminals," said he.

Speaking about the transformation of the Kosovo Security Forces into the Kosovo army initiated by Kosovo President Hashim Thaci through legislative rather than constitutional changes - the latter being the only way acceptable to the international community, which is why, Pristina believes, this transformation was stopped - Kurti said that "Thaci's problem was that he surprised everybody."

"In the end, it turned out that it was not...