BELGRADE – Following the first-instance verdicts against former leaders of Kosovo Liberation Army, Western countries called for the respect of the decision and for avoiding inflammatory rhetoric. On 16 September, Hashim Thaçi and Jakup Krasniqi were sentenced to 25 years, Kadri Veseli to 18, and Rexhep Selimi to 13 years in prison for war crimes […] The post Western countries state that the court ruling on former KLA leaders should be respected appeared first on European Western Balkans .