Vucevic: Kurti plans to physically occupy 4 northern municipalities by May 28, situation is terribly tense

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Serbian Defense Minister Milos Vucevic said on Saturday that May 28 is the "deadline" when Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti "plans to physically take over" the four municipalities in the north of Kosovo with a majority Serb population.

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"You know what that means, he takes over the municipalities with two percent of voter support, that means he will tear down all the Serb symbols, that he will go into a complete confrontation with the huge, absolute majority of the population living in those municipalities," Vucevic told TV Pink.

Vucevic assessed that the situation in Kosovo and Metohija is "horribly tense", and that many are "using the two tragedies that happened in Belgrade and Mladenovac in order to increase pressure on Serbia" and reach their goals, i.e. Kosovo as an independent state.

"Kurti, while we are playing the blame game with each other here, is preparing actions to physically take over these four municipalities in the north of Kosovo and Metohija and is not shaken much by our tragic events, but sees it as momentum that gives him a certain advantage, because here we are again disuniting, disintegrating, someone is to introduce instability again," Vucevic said.

Albanian candidates won the elections organized by Pristina in April in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvecan, Zubin Potok and Leposavic, because all political representatives of Serbs boycotted those elections.

The elections were organized after the Serbs left Kosovo's institutions in November 2022 and are refusing to return until the Community of Serb Municipalities has been established.

(Telegraf.rs)