Kurti will participate in the session of the Security Council, discussing Kosovo

2024-02-08 14:25:59, Kosova & Bota CNA

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, will participate in an extraordinary session of the UN Security Council, called at the request of Serbia, where it is expected to discuss the latest developments in Kosovo tonight in the evening according to the local time in Kosovo .

The Prime Minister's Office announced on Thursday that Kurti traveled to the United States together with his Foreign Minister, Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz.

Meanwhile, the Serbian Presidency announced on Thursday that the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, will speak at the session.

Serbia made the request for this session after the decisions of the Kosovar authorities to ban the Serbian dinar and close the parallel Serbian municipalities in recent weeks.

In the submitted request, Serbia described as illegal the decision of Kosovo to ban the use of the Serbian dinar for cash payments, assessing that it is "the continuation of the measures of brutal physical and institutional violence against the Serbs", and according to Belgrade , the goal is "ethnic cleansing and extermination of the Serbian population".

Tensions have increased again after a regulation of the Central Bank of Kosovo entered into force in Kosovo on February 1, according to which, the euro is the only currency for payments, which means the ban on the use of the Serbian dinar.

The international community has requested that Kosovo postpone the implementation of the decision of the Central Bank of Kosovo, expressing concern that it may have a negative impact on the Serbian community.

In the settlements where Serbs live in Kosovo, the Serbian dinar has been circulating since the post-war period. The Serbian state pays Kosovo Serbs - through a parallel system - salaries, pensions, social assistance, and other benefits.

Until now, the dinars have been sent to Kosovo from Serbia through the People's Bank of Serbia, which has a vault in Leposavic, a municipality in the north of Kosovo, inhabited by a majority of Serbs.

Likewise, in recent days the authorities in Kosovo have announced that they have closed seven parallel municipalities in the region of Peja and Dragash.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Kosovo, Xhelal Sveçla, has stated that the only institution that Serbia will have in Kosovo will be its embassy in Pristina./ REL