Petkovic calls the publication of the names by Kurti a "shooting list".

2023-06-02 14:32:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Petkovic calls the publication of the names by Kurti a "shooting

The Director of the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, Petar Petkovic, said that the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, was able to "insert any Serb" from Kosovo in the list that he read in the session of the Assembly of Kosovo.

"...because, our people in the four municipalities north of Ibri are united in their resistance to his reign of terror," said Petkovic, according to a statement issued by his office, in which the Prime Minister of Kosovo is described in offensive terms.

Speaking on Friday in front of the Assembly of Kosovo, Kurti read the names of several people, whom he claimed were involved in the clashes with KFOR peacekeepers and the Kosovo Police, during the protests of Serbian citizens, on May 29, in Zvecan.

Petkovic described it as a "shooting list".

He said that with its publication, Kurti "has taken hostage all those residents of 'Kosovo and Metohija' who only want peace, stability and the opportunity to live in a more or less normal society, in times of peace". In the communique of the Office for Kosovo of the Government of Serbia, it is also stated that Kurti has lost the support of the international community - without specifying whose - and that it is trying to forcefully prevent his departure "in political history".

Prime Minister Kurti, during his speech in the Assembly of Kosovo on June 2, said that the protests in the north of the country are not the will of the Serbs who live in those municipalities, but are organized by official Belgrade.

He called the situation in the north "tense and dangerous", but said that he cannot contribute to the creation of parallel structures in the north because "if municipal facilities are not for mayors, then who are they for?!"

Kurti said that now the question is "the liberation of the Serbian community from the fascist militia" and that this community needs political pluralism.

Elections in the four municipalities in the north, inhabited by a majority of Serbs, were held on April 23 after the resignation of the mayors from the ranks of the Serbian List - the largest party of Kosovo Serbs - in November last year.

They were boycotted by the majority Serbian population in that area, which now does not accept the new mayors.

The escalation in the north culminated on Monday, May 29, when KFOR peacekeeping troops intervened in Zveçan "to avoid clashes between the parties and to minimize the risk of escalation", and were attacked by several violent protesters, which the Kosovo government says they were "Serbian criminal gangs".

From this fight that happened, 30 KFOR soldiers were injured.

The United States and allies said that the use of force undermines efforts to normalize Kosovo-Serbia relations and called for calming the situation.

The international diplomatic community, from the United States of America, France, as well as other countries of the QUINT countries, have made the Government of Kosovo guilty for the tension of the situation in the north of the country./ Rel