Kurti for Tages-Anzeiger: Serbia targets autonomy in Kosovo, are fools not to understand hegemone ambitions in the region

In an interview for journalist Stephen Israel, a good connoisseur of developments in the Balkans, Kurti has said that the democratic world should be cautious of Serbia and Russia's <x0H) pan-Slavic gegemony.

Kurti has long responded to all topics, separately the situation in the north, saying that the Serbian local subx0 population is misused by Belgrade and some armed criminals”

We're always ready for a constructive dialogue. Would Switzerland accept it if a minority in the country traveled with Italian or French license plates for years? The vast majority of Serbs in our country's north have no problem with Kosovo plates. A small group is exploited by Belgrade. Armed people behind the barricades are not interested in rights, but in controlling territory on the border with Serbia. They want to protect Kosovo's north as an area without law. We've dug six drug labs there and also bitcoin miners who have benefited from free transmission. Nobody pays electricity bills” Kurti said.

The prime minister has mentioned the US president, Beden, that “mutual recognition should essentially be” of the future Kosovo-Serbia agreement.

Asked whether it is more dangerous for Kosovo either the EU or the US, he has responded to”

The same thing Olaf Scholz said, where the first is Biden. But the EU should think about whether it wants to continue with “business as usual with Serbia and continue to pay all subsidies unconditionally. Belgrade has not approved sanctions against Moscow and receives cheaper gas from Russia. For Belgrade, relations with Russia and also with China are the first. This should have a body price”.

According to him, “Serbia is not a normal country because it is not distanced from the time legacy of dictator Slobodan Milosevic's time”

Could a greater conflict be imagined in the 1990s? Kurt was asked by the journalist.

The “would be irresponsible to say there is no danger of escalation. Since Russia's attack on Ukraine on February 24th, we have seen proof of panslas hegemony, such as joint military exercises between Serbia and Russia. Even several hundred people can cause major damage” he said

According to him, Belgrade aims for autonomy for Serbs.

We have signed 33 agreements with Serbia in the last ten years. Almost nothing has been implemented. Some of these agreements would also be in our interest, but Belgrade always insists on municipal autonomy. Why do you think? Serbia wants Kosovo, like Bosnia, to have state in the state with Republika Srpska, to become dysfunctional. I told Vucinqi that if he really wants to do something for the Serb minority, he should recognise Kosovo. It cannot say that Kosovo is the false “state” and at the same time be established for municipal autonomy within this state. It's like ordering tea without a cup. We're not fools” he said.