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europe/kv.json

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 {
   "Introduction": {
     "Background": {
-      "text": "<p>The central Balkans were part of the Roman and Byzantine Empires before ethnic Serbs migrated to the territories of modern Kosovo in the 7th century. During the medieval period, Kosovo became the center of a Serbian Empire and saw the construction of many important Serb religious sites, including many architecturally significant Serbian Orthodox monasteries. The defeat of Serbian forces at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 led to five centuries of Ottoman rule during which large numbers of Turks and Albanians moved to Kosovo. By the end of the 19th century, Albanians replaced Serbs as the dominant ethnic group in Kosovo. Serbia reacquired control over the region from the Ottoman Empire during the First Balkan War of 1912. After World War II, Kosovo's present-day boundaries were established when Kosovo became an autonomous province of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (S.F.R.Y.). Despite legislative concessions, Albanian nationalism increased in the 1980s, which led to riots and calls for Kosovo's independence. The Serbs - many of whom viewed Kosovo as their cultural heartland - instituted a new constitution in 1989 revoking Kosovo's autonomous status. Kosovo's Albanian leaders responded in 1991 by organizing a referendum declaring Kosovo independent. Serbia undertook repressive measures against the Kosovar Albanians in the 1990s, provoking a Kosovar Albanian insurgency.</p> <p>Beginning in 1998, Serbia conducted a brutal counterinsurgency campaign that resulted in massacres and massive expulsions of ethnic Albanians (some 800,000 ethnic Albanians were forced from their homes in Kosovo). After international attempts to mediate the conflict failed, a three-month NATO military operation against Serbia beginning in March 1999 forced the Serbs to agree to withdraw their military and police forces from Kosovo. UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) placed Kosovo under a transitional administration, the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), pending a determination of Kosovo's future status. A UN-led process began in late 2005 to determine Kosovo's final status. The 2006-07 negotiations ended without agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, though the UN issued a comprehensive report on Kosovo's final status that endorsed independence. On 17 February 2008, the Kosovo Assembly declared Kosovo independent. Since then, over 100 countries have recognized Kosovo, and it has joined numerous international organizations. In October 2008, Serbia sought an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legality under international law of Kosovo's declaration of independence. The ICJ released the advisory opinion in July 2010 affirming that Kosovo's declaration of independence did not violate general principles of international law, UN Security Council Resolution 1244, or the Constitutive Framework. The opinion was closely tailored to Kosovo's unique history and circumstances.</p> <p>Demonstrating Kosovo&rsquo;s development into a sovereign, multi-ethnic, democratic country the international community ended the period of Supervised Independence in 2012. Kosovo held its most recent national and municipal elections in 2017. Serbia continues to reject Kosovo's independence, but the two countries agreed in April 2013 to normalize their relations through EU-facilitated talks, which produced several subsequent agreements the parties are engaged in implementing, though they have not yet reached a comprehensive normalization of relations. Kosovo seeks full integration into the international community, and has pursued bilateral recognitions and memberships in international organizations. Kosovo signed a Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU in 2015, and was named by a 2018 EU report as one of six Western Balkan countries that will be able to join the organization once it meets the criteria to accede. Kosovo also seeks memberships in the UN and in NATO.</p>"
+      "text": "<p>The central Balkans were part of the Roman and Byzantine Empires before ethnic Serbs migrated to the territories of modern Kosovo in the 7th century. During the medieval period, Kosovo became the center of a Serbian Empire and saw the construction of many important Serb religious sites, including many architecturally significant Serbian Orthodox monasteries. The defeat of Serbian forces at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 led to five centuries of Ottoman rule during which large numbers of Turks and Albanians moved to Kosovo. By the end of the 19th century, Albanians replaced Serbs as the dominant ethnic group in Kosovo. Serbia reacquired control over the region from the Ottoman Empire during the First Balkan War of 1912. After World War II, Kosovo's present-day boundaries were established when Kosovo became an autonomous province of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (S.F.R.Y.). Despite legislative concessions, Albanian nationalism increased in the 1980s, which led to riots and calls for Kosovo's independence. The Serbs - many of whom viewed Kosovo as their cultural heartland - instituted a new constitution in 1989 revoking Kosovo's autonomous status. Kosovo's Albanian leaders responded in 1991 by organizing a referendum declaring Kosovo independent. Serbia undertook repressive measures against the Kosovar Albanians in the 1990s, provoking a Kosovar Albanian insurgency.</p> <p>Beginning in 1998, Serbia conducted a brutal counterinsurgency campaign that resulted in massacres and massive expulsions of ethnic Albanians (some 800,000 ethnic Albanians were forced from their homes in Kosovo). After international attempts to mediate the conflict failed, a three-month NATO military operation against Serbia beginning in March 1999 forced the Serbs to agree to withdraw their military and police forces from Kosovo. UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) placed Kosovo under a transitional administration, the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), pending a determination of Kosovo's future status. A UN-led process began in late 2005 to determine Kosovo's final status. The 2006-07 negotiations ended without agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, though the UN issued a comprehensive report on Kosovo's final status that endorsed independence. On 17 February 2008, the Kosovo Assembly declared Kosovo independent. Since then, close to 100 countries have recognized Kosovo, and it has joined numerous international organizations. In October 2008, Serbia sought an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legality under international law of Kosovo's declaration of independence. The ICJ released the advisory opinion in July 2010 affirming that Kosovo's declaration of independence did not violate general principles of international law, UN Security Council Resolution 1244, or the Constitutive Framework. The opinion was closely tailored to Kosovo's unique history and circumstances.</p> <p>Demonstrating Kosovo’s development into a sovereign, multi-ethnic, democratic country the international community ended the period of Supervised Independence in 2012. Kosovo held its most recent national and municipal elections in 2017. Serbia continues to reject Kosovo's independence, but the two countries agreed in April 2013 to normalize their relations through EU-facilitated talks, which produced several subsequent agreements the parties are engaged in implementing, though they have not yet reached a comprehensive normalization of relations. Kosovo seeks full integration into the international community, and has pursued bilateral recognitions and memberships in international organizations. Kosovo signed a Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU in 2015, and was named by a 2018 EU report as one of six Western Balkan countries that will be able to join the organization once it meets the criteria to accede. Kosovo also seeks memberships in the UN and in NATO.</p>"
     }
   },
   "Geography": {
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
         "text": "Albanian (official) 94.5%, Bosnian 1.7%, Serbian (official) 1.6%, Turkish 1.1%, other 0.9% (includes Romani), unspecified 0.1%; note - in municipalities where a community's mother tongue is not one of Kosovo's official languages, the language of that community may be given official status according to the 2006 Law on the Use of Languages (2011 est.)"
       },
       "printed major-language sample": {
-        "text": "<br />Libri i Fakteve Boterore, burimi vital per informacione elementare. (Albanian)<br /><br />The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information."
+        "text": "<br>Libri i Fakteve Boterore, burimi vital per informacione elementare. (Albanian)<br><br>The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information."
       }
     },
     "Religions": {
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@
       "note": "<strong>note:</strong> in August 2015, the Kosovo Assembly approved a constitutional amendment that establishes the Kosovo Relocated Specialist Judicial Institution, also referred to as the Kosovo Specialist Chambers or \"Special Court\"; the court, located at the Hague in the Netherlands, began operating in late 2016 and has jurisdiction to try crimes against humanity, war crimes, and other crimes under Kosovo law that occurred in the 1998-2000 period"
     },
     "Political parties and leaders": {
-      "text": "Alliance for the Future of Kosovo or AAK [Ramush HARADINAJ]<br />Alternativa [Mimoza KUSARI-LILA]<br />Ashkali Party for Integration or PAI<br />Democratic League of Kosovo or LDK<br />Democratic Party of Kosovo or PDK [Kadri VESELI]<br />Independent Liberal Party or SLS [Slobodan PETROVIC]<br />Initiative for Kosovo or NISMA [Fatmir LIMAJ]<br />Movement for Self-Determination (Vetevendosje) or VV [Albin KURTI]<br />New Democratic Initiative of Kosovo<br />New Democratic Party<br />New Kosovo Alliance or AKR [Behgjet PACOLLI]<br />Romani Initiative<br />Serb List [Goran RAKIC]<br />Social Democratic Party of Kosovo or PSD [Shpend AHMETI]<br />Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo or KDTP [Mahir YAGCILAR]<br />Unique Gorani Party [Adem HODZA]<br />Vakat Coalition or VAKAT [Rasim DEMIRI]"
+      "text": "Alliance for the Future of Kosovo or AAK [Ramush HARADINAJ]<br>Alternativa [Mimoza KUSARI-LILA]<br>Ashkali Party for Integration or PAI<br>Democratic League of Kosovo or LDK<br>Democratic Party of Kosovo or PDK [Kadri VESELI]<br>Independent Liberal Party or SLS [Slobodan PETROVIC]<br>Initiative for Kosovo or NISMA [Fatmir LIMAJ]<br>Movement for Self-Determination (Vetevendosje) or VV [Albin KURTI]<br>New Democratic Initiative of Kosovo<br>New Democratic Party<br>New Kosovo Alliance or AKR [Behgjet PACOLLI]<br>Romani Initiative<br>Serb List [Goran RAKIC]<br>Social Democratic Party of Kosovo or PSD [Shpend AHMETI]<br>Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo or KDTP [Mahir YAGCILAR]<br>Unique Gorani Party [Adem HODZA]<br>Vakat Coalition or VAKAT [Rasim DEMIRI]"
     },
     "International organization participation": {
       "text": "IBRD, IDA, IFC, IMF, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, OIF (observer)"
@@ -813,7 +813,7 @@
     },
     "Telecommunication systems": {
       "general assessment": {
-        "text": "<p>EU&nbsp;pre-accession process supported&nbsp;progress in the telecom industry with a&nbsp;regulatory framework,&nbsp;European standards, and&nbsp;a market of new players&nbsp;encouraging development; two operators dominate the sector; under-developed telecom infrastructure leads to low fixed-line penetration; little expansion of fiber networks for broadband; expansion of LTE services (2020)</p> (2020)"
+        "text": "<p>EU pre-accession process supported progress in the telecom industry with a regulatory framework, European standards, and a market of new players encouraging development; two operators dominate the sector; under-developed telecom infrastructure leads to low fixed-line penetration; little expansion of fiber networks for broadband; expansion of LTE services (2020)</p> (2020)"
       },
       "domestic": {
         "text": "fixed-line stands at 6 per 100 and mobile-cellular 32 per 100 persons (2019)"
@@ -917,13 +917,13 @@
       }
     },
     "Military and security service personnel strengths": {
-      "text": "the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) has approximately 3,400 personnel; note - Kosovo plans for the KSF to eventually number around 5,000 troops (2021)"
+      "text": "the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) has approximately 3,500 personnel; note - Kosovo plans for the KSF to eventually number around 5,000 troops (2021)"
     },
     "Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
       "text": "the KSF is equipped with small arms and light vehicles only; it relies on donations and since 2013 has received donated equipment from Turkey and the US (2020)"
     },
     "Military service age and obligation": {
-      "text": "<span class=\"ILfuVd\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">service is voluntary; must be over the age of 18 and a citizen of Kosovo; upper age for enlisting is 30 for officers, 25 for other ranks, although these may be waived for recruits with key skills considered essential for the KSF<br /></span></span> (2019)"
+      "text": "service is voluntary; must be over the age of 18 and a citizen of Kosovo; upper age for enlisting is 30 for officers, 25 for other ranks, although these may be waived for recruits with key skills considered essential for the KSF<br> (2019)"
     }
   },
   "Transnational Issues": {
@@ -934,7 +934,7 @@
       "IDPs": {
         "text": "16,000 (primarily ethnic Serbs displaced during the 1998-1999 war fearing reprisals from the majority ethnic-Albanian population; a smaller number of ethnic Serbs, Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptians fled their homes in 2,004 as a result of violence) (2020)"
       },
-      "note": "<strong>note:</strong> 6,415 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-June 2021)"
+      "note": "<strong>note:</strong> 6,605 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-June 2021)"
     }
   }
 }