Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on the occasion of the closing of Serbian post offices in northern Kosovo that the behavior of Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti was “an attempt to provoke a military conflict”, reported Radio Free Europe”.
„We don't want war, we want to keep the peace. "Kurti is doing this consciously and organized and with the support of certain Western powers," commented Vucic yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon, the police in Kosovo entered the offices of the Serbian post offices in the northern part of the country, where mostly Kosovo Serbs live. The action took place after a signal received by the Regulatory Authority for Electronic and Postal Communications (ARKEP) that there are economic operators operating in the territory of Kosovo without a license and without being registered with the Kosovo Business Registration Agency (ARBK). The buildings of the Serbian post offices in the cities of Leposavich, Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvechan and Zubin Potok were sealed, and documentation was taken from them.
Various payments from Serbia to local Serbs are made through the Serbian post offices in Kosovo. Belgrade does not recognize Kosovo's declared independence in 2008. The two countries are conducting a dialogue to normalize relations under the auspices of the European Union.
Earlier this year, the Kosovo authorities banned the use of the Serbian dinar as a means of payment in the Republic of Kosovo and closed six branches of the Serbian “Postal Savings Bank” in Northern Kosovo.
The European Union issued a statement on the case calling for a negotiated solution within the dialogue, which the president of Serbia called “shameful and disgraceful”, as he said a 2015 agreement already exists. for telecommunications and Serbian posts, which this year was “brutally trampled”.
„Negotiations are being called for because of Kurti's repeated illegal unilateral actions. The next time he kills 20 people, we will go talk again, no matter what stupidity he does, we are called to negotiate," said Vucic, quoted by the website "Kosovo Online".
He recalled that there is a telecommunications agreement of "Serbian Post" of 2015, which is violated.
„With yesterday's penetration of the Kosovo police into the premises of the Serbian post offices in four municipalities in Northern Kosovo, as well as with that of a few months ago in the branches of the Serbian “Postal Savings Bank” Albin Kurti directly provoked a military conflict and obviously wants to provoke clashes on the ground at any cost, in front of the entire international community,” said the director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Petar Petkovic, quoted by Tanjug.
„This is a new crisis directed by Albin Kurti, who thus wants to expel all Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija, trampling on all their basic human rights, intimidating them and gradually making normal living conditions impossible,” he added. Petkovic.