Clearly, Kurti has no interest in calming tensions: Kosovo and Metohija Office head Petar Petkovic reacts

Photo: Tanjug/Tara Radovanovic

With today's decision of the so-called government in Pristina to continue the expropriation of Serb-owned land in the municipalities of Leposavic and Zubin Potok, Albin Kurti has taken a new step with the aim of destabilizing the situation on the ground and has shown for the umpteenth time that he wants conflicts and war, says Petar Petkovic, director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.

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It is obvious that Kurti is not looking to calm tensions, promote dialogue and normalization of relations, but instead, with fresh institutional pressure and threats to the survival of the Serb people, he wants to expel the Serbs from their centuries-old homesteads.

By adopting a unilateral, unlawful and illegal decision on expropriation of Serb-owned land in Leposavic and Zubin Potok, Kurti continues to steal land from Serb owners in order to illegally build his so-called military and police bases and fortifications in the north of Kosovo and Metohija.

It is now clear as day that the belated public debates organized in these two municipalities in the north early in the year were only a charade directed by Pristina for the sake of the international community and an attempt to satisfy formalities, rather than any concern for the rule of law and the rights of the Serbs living in these areas.

It is also clear to everyone that a people whose land is under attack by the occupiers from Pristina will oppose such actions by all peaceful and legitimate means and will not silently watch as their property inherited from ancestors gets stolen.

The Office for Kosovo and Metohija, together with our representatives on the ground, the people, legal representatives, and the civil sector, will continue to fight for the legitimate interests of our people, and we will inform all relevant international representatives and missions operating in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija of this new unilateral and illegal move by Kurti.

U's mediator in the dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, will also be informed about it, in order to prevent this kind of legal violence and usurpation by Kurti.

(Telegraf.rs)