Kurti: We should not forget Serbia's crimes, but seek justice and apology

While speaking at the Balkan Leadership Conference “Peace, Security and Development in the Western Balkans”, organised by the Universal Federation of Peace, Kurti said it must become an admission of crime in order to achieve reconciliation.

“Everything would have been different if the Belgrade political and military police leader did not impose aggressive and genocide policy on Albanians. As a result, Serbia's continued crime that damaged both peoples and caused the tragedy and humanitarian catastrophe that we should never forget, but to demand that justice be established and that the plea and acceptance of crime be made, in order to achieve reconciliation”, Kurti said.

Kosovo's prime minister said dreams of lasting peace are seen where the unforgettable anxieties of war have been experienced.

The best dreams of just, lasting, and incorrigible peace are seen there when the unforgettable anxieties of war have been experienced. Our people are thirsting for security and direct development of the whole, but the time we are living in and the geopolitical, geoeconomic and geostrategic context around us and toward us it should not be so good and promising for real, just and lasting peace. The fragile current peace and lasting peace of perspective still threaten trends of frozen conflict, the trends for the overall deadlock of normalisation processes, development, democratisation, rapprochement, co-operation and integration both within each country and in Euro-Atlantic and global dimensions, all of this for revanst and backward-reforming companies”, Kurti said.

The conference has made together prominent leaders from Balkan countries, regional institutions and European countries.

This conference is organised by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), in partnership with the Kosovo News Agency, the Washington Times Foundation, the International Media Association for Peace (IMAP), and the International Youth Association and Students for Peace (IAYSP).