7 minutes agoGerman ambassador criticises President Osmani: Why aren't you going to Gracanica to visit the residents, there's a bridge there?
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Germany's Ambassador to Kosovo, Joern Rohde, has also spoken of the blocked bridge over the Iber River that divides northern Mitrovica with south and President Vjosa Osmani's visit to this part of the country and Serb minorities. He said the bridge over the Iber River is blocked [...]
He said the bridge over the Iber River is blocked for political reasons, while criticising President Osmani for not using this bridge as an excuse for not visiting the north, citing here the fact that Serbs also have in Gracanica, but she has not visited them.
There are also Albanians who daily cross the bridge, Kosovo Albanians. There are Serbs outside Mitrovica. Gracanica. Was the President there? So there's no reason. There is no” bridge there, Rohde is expressed in an interview for Klan Kosova.
On the other hand, Rohde said the situation should be retired, claiming it depends on politicians if they want to create better living conditions and that there are politicians who benefit from cases of tension.
The “The importance is for the political situation to be tense, for politicians to make sure and create conditions to enable an interaction with each other. When I go to Mitrovica, there is a bridge that has not been opened, and 200 meters further the bridges are open. Why isn't that open? Just for political reasons, not for other reasons, because it is a symbol used by some politicians to say that the situation is not normal”.
I've put this question up north. Why doesn't the bridge open? -“It's a symbol.” What about a symbol for what? Do you want a life in common? There are politicians who take advantage of cases of tension. But I think this should be overstepped and that's why we're working on it, with projects. But ultimately it depends on the people and politicians of both sides”.
