Internatinal Olympic Committee(IOC) Recognizes Kosovo Tuesday Dec 09,2014

 

Kosovo was granted full International Olympic Committee membership on Tuesday Dec 09,2014, rubber-stamping the Balkan region`s first Games appearance at Rio de Janeiro in 2016 but angering Serbia, who accused the IOC of political bias.

The region, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, a decade after NATO went to war to halt the massacre and expulsion of Albanians by Serbian forces waging a two-year counter-insurgency under late strongman Slobodan Milosevic, became the 205th member of the IOC