Dacic at the Bled Strategic Forum: "The biggest threat to peace in Kosovo is Kurti"

Photo: Milena Djordjevic

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said ahead of the panel "Western Balkans: Everything changes but everything stays the same?" at the Bled Strategic Forum that the prime minister of the provisional institutions of Pristina, Albin Kurti, is the biggest threat to peace in Kosovo and Metohija.

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Commenting on Kurti's statement that Pristina has been working on de-escalating the conflict for the past few months, Dacic said that he does not know how they are doing that, since escalation is ever increasing.

"I don't know how they work when escalation is is growing and growing. We have said a hundred times already that the biggest threat to peace is Kurti," said Dacic.

He stressed that it has been 10 years since he signed the Brussels Agreement, along with Catherine Ashton and Hashim Thaci, but that in Pristina "they did not see fit" to implement anything from that agreement that concerns the rights of the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija, such as formation of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO).

"Everything they worked on was further escalation," said the head of Serbian diplomacy.

Dacic recalled that when the Brussels Agreement was discussed, they discussed an attempt to normalize relations between Belgrade and Pristina without bringing in the status issue, that is, prejudging how the status of Kosovo and Metohija would be resolved politically.

"All this is unacceptable to him (Kurti), that is, he does not want the status issue to be resolved, because if it cannot be resolved through negotiations, it will be resolved with weapons, and that is their concept," said Dacic.

Dacic concluded by saying that if the European Union does not see that, he says he does not know what else Serbia could do to help, except to appeal on them to stop Kurti while that is still possible.

(Telegraf.rs)