Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić and the President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, shared their perspectives on the situation in Kosovo at the UN Security Council on Tuesday.
Vjosa Osmani pointed out that Pristina wants dialogue in a fair and balanced manner, and that Kosovo is a free, independent, and sovereign republic and will remain so.
“We want peace, and Serbia showed on February 24 that it wants war. We will not allow them to get it,” said Osmani and added: “Despite everything, we decided to cooperate with Serbia and participate in the dialogue that should peacefully solve our problems,” she said.
According to her, Serbia is not interested in peace or a normalisation of relations, rather it looks for a return to the 90s- a period proceeding the war when Serbia controlled Kosovo.
Regarding the Serb paramilitary terrorist attack in Banjska, she was clear that she holds Belgrade responsible, pointing to evidence collected so far during the investigation.
“Serbs portray themselves as victims, but the facts show the opposite. Those terrorist groups were financed and trained from a source in Serbia, and Milan Radoičić, who admitted that he led that attack, is a close associate of Vučić and is still free,” Osmani said.
She was also clear that the attack was due to “the Serbian desire for more territory” but that it will “never” get it.
In her speech, Brnabic denied all Serbian state involvement in the attack, stating “Belgrade or the security forces, the security structures were not involved in this event and we are ready to provide the evidence to the international community to prove this.”
She claimed the attack was a “logical consequence of the terror that Pristina has implemented against Serbs,” without giving any examples, and then accused Osmani of presenting untruths, blanket statements and accusations at the level of gossip.
“She said how Serbs terrorise the Serbs, and they (Albanians) defend them! Since May, 2,000 Serbian families have left Kosovo and Metohija because of terror. So where did they go and why?” Brnabić said.
“We are looking to the future while Pristina is living in the nineties,” Brnabić pointed out.
(Milena Antonijević | EURACTIV.rs)
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