Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, at a press conference held on November 18 together with Macedonian Prime Minister Mickoski, said that he does not believe that in the Balkans today there are established mindsets for the creation of a greater Serbia, just like in Serbia in the 90s when Slobodan Milosevic was in power. Although during these four years he had not left foreign media without mentioning the danger that the region and Kosovo are threatened by a new attack from Serbia and the Vučić-Putin cooperation, Kurti said at yesterday's conference that he does not believe that in the Balkans today there are views that aim to use ethnic divisions to cause conflicts, writes Gazeta Express
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During the four years that Kosovo has been led by the Government of Prime Minister Albin Kurti, whenever security aspects were discussed, the main topics were Serbia, Vučić, Russia, Putin and the threat of war that Serbia is threatening Kosovo. These have been repeated inside Kosovo, and abroad in every foreign media outlet where Kosovo's heads of state have had the opportunity to speak.
Serbia was responsible for the terrorist attack in Banjska, and Prime Minister Albin Kurti has mentioned on dozens of occasions the Serbian military bases around Kosovo and has consistently said that a new attack on Kosovo is being prepared in the state led by Aleksandar Vučić. Kurti did not hesitate to point out even when Serbian forces approached the border of the Republic of Kosovo by a few meters.
Meanwhile, the Serbian president has said that he does not distance himself from Milosevic and Putin.
"The positions of our northern neighbor are old, and I naturally demanded a legally binding agreement, which normalizes relations and has mutual recognition at the center, but in this regard there is no progress. There is no distancing from Milosevic, there is no distancing from Putin, and in addition to old positions, there are also behavioral disorders, I would say," Kurti told RTK in 2022 after a meeting he had with the Serbian president.
Kurti himself said in November last year that the region is not safe from Serbia, as this country seeks to destabilize the entire Western Balkans.
"So Serbia's neighbors, as long as they are not part of the European Union, are not safe from Serbia, and this should be taken into account in Brussels. They are angry with the dissolution of Yugoslavia, they thought they could destroy it and take half of it, but it didn't work out that way," Kurti had declared.
As recently as mid-September of this year, Prime Minister Albin Kurti had sounded the alarm that Serbia, specifically Aleksandar Vučić, in collaboration with Russia, was preparing new threats and ultimatums.
Meanwhile, on February 13, 2024, Prime Minister Albin Kurti from London spoke about the urgent need to sign the Brussels-Ohrid Agreement, since according to the head of the Kosovo Government, Serbia leaves open the option of occupying Kosovo.
"In light of this, a signed agreement between Kosovo and Serbia is more urgent than ever. Not signing the agreement we have is a clear sign of bad faith. So, we need trust in order to have legal certainty and implementation of what we have agreed so far. And this also means that when they refuse to sign the agreement, they want to keep open an option to invade Kosovo. So, I cannot see any other essential meaning for refusing to sign, then they want to keep this door open that there will be a window of opportunity to return and commit aggression again," Prime Minister Albin Kurti declared in the discussion organized by the "Chatham House" institute in London, United Kingdom.
Although the archive is overflowing with statements and alarms about the danger that Kosovo faces from a possible new attack by Serbia, Prime Minister Albin Kurti, at a conference held on Monday, November 18 in Pristina together with his Macedonian counterpart, said that he does not think that there are views in the Balkans that could turn inter-ethnic differences into conflicts, Gazeta Express reports.
According to the Kosovo Prime Minister, there may be desires, but not established mindsets like there were in the 90s, when Slobodan Milosevic's regime used inter-ethnic differences to cause bloody wars in an attempt to create a Greater Serbia.
"I do not believe that interethnic differences cause conflict. There may be political centers that use ethnic differences for power, hegemony, domination, exploitation and oppression, but ethnic differences as such do not cause conflict. We have citizens of different nations working all over the Balkans today, trading, studying with each other, and I do not believe that in our Balkans there are such views that could make interethnic differences conflicts. There may be desires, but I do not believe that there are any more established views as they were in the 90s, when interethnic differences were exploited, especially by official Belgrade, to cause bloody wars, which aimed to create a greater Serbia from that increasingly smaller Yugoslavia," Prime Minister Kurti declared at the press conference after the joint meeting of the Governments of Kosovo and North Macedonia./Express newspaper/
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