Petkovic: Maqedonci's message is an open threat

Photo: Tanjug/ Tara Radovanovic

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petkovic said today that, at a time when Prime Minister of Pristina's provisional institutions Albin Kurti incites conflicts and causes tension and provocations in the north of Kosovo and Metohija on a daily basis, the message of Minister of Defense of the provisional institutions Ejup Maqedonci that the so-called KBS will soon operate in the area of North of Kosovo cannot be understood as anything other than an open threat.

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A statement issued by the Office cites Petkovic as saying that such dangerous messages, war cries and saber-rattling aimed at the Serb people in the north of Kosovo and Metohija neither go in the direction of the much-needed de-escalation, nor in the direction of a peaceful and sustainable solution, but rather raise tensions, bring unrest among the Serb people and threaten to destabilize the entire region.

"We remind the so-called minister of the war past to carefully study all the guarantees that exist based on which no Kosovo security forces can ever enter the north of the province. These are not only the guarantees from 2013, by (then) NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, but also the guarantees given by NATO on December 28 of last year, that the KBS cannot go to the north without their consent," said Petkovic.

He points out that Maqedonci has learly declared himself as "warmonger and war minister" which is proved by the message that the KBS is the successor of the criminal KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army"), which had been designated as a terrorist organization by international representatives.

According to Petkovic, such a formation (KBS, "Kosovo Security Force") has no business in the Serb communities of Kosovo and Metohija, because the Serb people have not, nor will they ever forget all the "atrocities and sufferings at the hands of the KLA terrorists who are also on trial in The Hague for committing monstrous war crimes."

"Such a dangerous statement comes after Kurti's message that the Kosovo police is also the successor of the so-called KLA, which clearly shows what criminal methods Kurti and his followers would like to use to conquer the north of our southern province. That is why they are imagining seeing Serbian bases close to the administrative line (between Kosovo and Metohija and central Serbia), they would like to try to justify their own militant moves and dreams in that way," Petkovic concluded.

(Telegraf.rs)