5 minutes agoKurti, Escobar: We could have mayors with “Zoom”
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(3 years ago)Kosovo's prime minister has blamed the violence in the country's north “fascist tourism”, controlled by the government of neighbouring Serbia, and said he had rejected a US request to displace recently installed mayors from their official offices. We were very lucky that [...]
The day was very heavy, we were very lucky that no life was lost”, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said over the phone from Pristina on Tuesday for “Guardian”. He said that NATO's “several times” peacekeepers were still in hospital, Klankosova reports.tv.
On Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued an extremely strong rebuke to a US ally, saying that the decision to use force to enter municipal buildings in the north had been taken “against the US Council” and European partners, and has “severely and unnecessaryly escalating tensions”.
Kurti expressed his dissatisfaction with this statement, naming it “leming” of Vuciki.
“I think it's not only unfair, wrong and hurtful, but at the same time many naive”, Kurti said, speaking of “Guardian” on the phone from Pristina. “Perhaps Secretary Blinken will explain this further one day, but it was definitely not useful”.
Since then, Kurti said he had spoken with Gabriel Escobar, the US special envoy for the Balkans. He said Escobar had asked Kosovo authorities to shift mayors to various objects, or to make them work from home, a request he had rejected.
“We cannot have mayors in commum, we are democratic republic”, Kurti said. A democratic republic cannot surrender fascist militia”, he added.
Kurti insisted the new mayors will continue working from municipal offices.
These are administrative, technical heads that are necessary for normal functioning of municipalities... I admit that the political legitimacy of these mayors is low, but the legitimacy of others is zero”, Kurti said in this conversation.
