Petkovic: "By evicting Serbs from apartments in north of Kosovo, Kurti is implementing ethnic cleansing"

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Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petkovic has assessed that Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti continues to implement his policy of ethnic cleansing with the decision to evict Serbs from their apartments in the north and settle Albanians there.

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"Kurti is doing everything to continue his policy of ethnic cleansing, and this decision, which means that Serbs are being evicted from their apartments, is made in that vein," Petkovic told RTS.

Petkovic explained that the Kosovo Verification Agency has sent notices to the Serbs who own apartments and who bought those apartments decades ago from companies like Trepca, with a demand that they move out, and that if they don't do so, they will be forcibly evicted.

Petkovic said that the Office for Kosovo and Metohija has sent letters to numerous addresses.

"We are doing everything through diplomatic channels to stop that decision, but I have to say that this agency was founded contrary to the agreement reached in Brussels, which stipulated that people from Belgrade, Pristina and the EU would be its members. They are now unilaterally implementing decisions to evict Serbs and settle Albanians, which is being done together with the fake Albanian mayors (in the north)," said Petkovic.

He said that this affects about 150 families.

"Pristina is not implementing the decisions made in favor of Serbs because even before UNMIK (UN mission in Kosovo and Metohija) there are more than 29,000 requests to return property belonging to Serbs south of the Ibar River. These requests are not acted upon, but those made by Albanians are," he said.

According to him, Belgrade pursues a policy of peace and seeks to save the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija.

"We will look for solutions, we will insist on dialogue, we will insist on the formation of the ZSO (Community of Serb Municipalities), but everything that is happening now must stop," said the director of the Government's Office.

When it comes to the economy, Petkovic noted that Serbia will do everything to help its people, but in terms of security, the responsibility is on KFOR and the international community to, he stressed, stop the insanity of Albin Kurti.

Asked where the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina stands now, Petkovic stressed that Belgrade is always ready for dialogue, and that Kurti is the one who does not want it and who does not want to form the ZSO.

"When we receive an invitation from Brussels, we are ready to respond, we also expect (EU envoy Miroslav) Lajcak in Belgrade," said Petkovic.

(Telegraf.rs)