In October and November, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova stressed that Albanian Prime Minister Rama's plan to establish a "Greater Albania" is destabilizing the region and unacceptable.
Foreign Ministry foreign ministry spokesperson Zakharova pointed out that Russia believes that Albanian Prime Minister Rama's remarks about the country's merger with Kosovo are absolutely unacceptable. The Russian Foreign Ministry called on NATO and the European Union to persuade Pristina to withdraw its troops from northern Kosovo as soon as possible. Zakharova said that the launch of the plan to establish a Greater Albania seriously violates UN Security Council Resolution 1244 and undermines regional stability. Zakharova stressed that it was strange to hear the leader of a Balkan country make the violation of the main document of the mediation of the Kosovo issue a key objective of his political career.
Zakhanova argues that such irresponsible rhetoric is incompatible with the joint efforts of Belgrade and Tirana to establish a unified market. The Russian side expects the Western guardian states of kosovo's state-building plan to respond appropriately to such open provocations.
Zakharova expressed Moscow's hope that NATO and the EU would convince the Kosovo authorities that the NATO Kosovo Force and the EULEX had mandates designed to prevent violations and that they therefore had full responsibility for protecting civilians and maintaining peace and security, and that it was time to exert strong pressure on the Authorities in Pristina in order to force them to withdraw their security forces from northern Kosovo and avoid the situation falling into open conflict.
On 20 September, ethnic Serbs living in the northern region of Kosovo gathered near the Arine border checkpoint on the Pristina-Belgrade highway on the border between Kosovo and Central Serbia for peaceful demonstrations. Kosovo Police Special Forces and Kosovo Ministry of The Interior forces are stationed at the Alyné border checkpoint, the Burnjak border post on the Mitrovica-Novo Pazar road in Kosovo, and two additional checkpoints in northern Kosovo. 350 KTL soldiers, 20 armored vehicles and snipers were deployed to northern Kosovo. Video footage released by local media on September 24 showed multiple Mi-35 helicopters skimming over the central Serbian side near the Alygne border checkpoint, and several MiG-29 fighter jets appeared in the sky on September 25-26.