A brawl erupted in the Kosovo parliament on Thursday after an opposition lawmaker threw water on Prime Minister Albin Kurti.
Local media said Kurti was escorted out of the assembly hall during the chaos.
When the parliament session resumed after four hours, the opposition prevented governing lawmakers from taking the floor and held up mocking posters of Kurti and another lawmaker. Another brief scuffling followed, quickly halted by security guards. Kosovo is a former province in Serbia whose 2008 declaration of independence Belgrade does not recognize. Most ethnic Serbs in Kosovo also have refused to acknowledge Kosovo's statehood, which is backed by the U.S. and most EU nations but not Russia and China.
The EU has told both countries they must reach a solution to their dispute through an EU-mediated dialogue in order to join the bloc.
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