Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti has held Serbia accountable for trying to annex part of Kosovo following an incursion of Serb gunmen who killed a police officer last year.

Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti demands Serbia to hand over the indicted militants and says Serbia should be held accountable. View on euronews

Kosovo plans to exercise full sovereignty over its own affairs and will resist western pressure to compromise with former governing power Serbia, the prime minister of the Balkan nation has said.

Serbia has demanded that an election be held and ethnic Serbs return to police and judiciary in a Serb-populated northern region of Kosovo where tensions have fueled fears of instability and new armed clashes.