President of the Republic of Kosovo Vios Osmani Sadriu posthumously awarded the presidential medal in 2015 by Bo Bayden, the son of President Joseph Biden. This gesture is gratitude for his work in Kosovo after the war, writes Reuters.
The Son of the current chapter of the United States was a prosecutor and participated in the American Prosecutor’s training program in the unrecognized republic soon after the end of the war of 1998-1999. “The fact that the United States and the American people did for our country, for our freedom, for our right to exist, goes beyond any partnership among all countries of the world,” said Ottoman.
After her words at the ceremony in Pristina included the thanks to the American president, in advance recorded on the video. Biden stated that his son was “in love” in Kosovo and therefore worked for the benefit of the region sincerely and from the soul. In 2016, after the death of the Son, in Kosovo opened a memorial in memory of Bo Biden and called him the name of the road that had previously led to the American military base.
Bayden Memorial is not the only monument to the American figure in the Kosovo land. In 2009, in Pristina, Bill Clinton, the American president, who organized the invasion of NATO in Yugoslavia in 1999.
The Republic of Kosovo is a partially recognized state in the Balkan Peninsula. It is mostly inhabited by ethnic Albanians, but the Serbian population is also present. Serbia considers the autonomous edge of Kosovo and Metokhia – the so-called region in the Serbian Constitution – part of its territory, Kosovo Serbs report tensions from the ethnic majority.
According to the latest data, the republic after its declaration of independence in 2008 recognized about a hundred countries, including 22 of the 27 European Union member states, but Kosovo is not a member of the UN. Russia Independence Kosovo does not recognize.