Petkovic: Accusations against Serbia indicator of retrograde nature of Pristina's policies

Photo: Tanjug/ Tara Radovanovic

The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, said today that the "worn out and stale" slanders and accusations against Serbia and President Aleksandar Vucic, which the president of the provisional Pristina institutions, Vlosa Osmani, insists on, are an indicator of the retrograde nature of Pristina's policies and its inability to exist in peacetime conditions.

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Petkovic stressed that the Pristina regime, which in the north of the autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija uses the police as an instrument of violence and violation of rights of an entire people, is in its very essence criminal, and that it has no other possibility to cover up its criminal actions than use lies to justify violent behavior and the fact that they are destroying the Brussels Agreement every day, refusing for 11 years to form the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO, envisaged in the Brussels Agreement).

Petkovic said ZSO is the basis for the survival of the Serb people in the province, and that is exactly what Pristina does not want in any way.

"Serbia, with its measures in response to the obvious attempt to ethnically cleanse the Kosovo and Metohija of Serbs, has made an attempt to return things to the previous state on the ground, in order to reverse the trend of destabilization and give a chance to dialogue. Osmani has no answer to that except blatant lies, because the bottom line is that Pristina does not want a normal situation in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, nor does it want dialogue. They showed disdain for dialogue the moment they resorted to institutional and physical violence in order to solve the 'Serb question' in Kosovo and Metohija," Petkovic said.

According to him, Osmani is clearly irritated by the fact that, while she and her colleagues from Pristina are going from door to door in New York repeating the trite narratives from the 90s as if in a kindergarten show, Serbia is present in the center of world politics as a country that is in future-oriented in every way.

"This understanding of politics and a responsible attitude towards the future is what differentiates Belgrade and Pristina, and the world sees this difference more and more clearly," Petkovic said, according to a statement from his Office.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)