Maliqi: Lajcak's statement, alarming, risks breaking the situation in the north

Maliqi also commented on Lajcak's statement following the visit to the North, where it spoke of “abnormalisation or confrontation” of the situation.

He termed such an alarming statement, stressing that the risk of the transition and conflict could be restored.

“Lajcak, following talks with Serbian structures in the north, issued an alarming statement on the situation in the north. He said he is concerned by hinting at the Serbs' commitment to refusing any agreement without fulfilling the preconditions: establishing the association of Serb majority municipalities and withdrawing Kosovo special police units from the north. Evidently, Serbs have told Lajcak that they will make more compromises, as when they heard Belgrade and removed the barricades. With that comes the risk of a transition and conflict. The question is also about Lajcak and international factors, who effectively controls Kosovo's north, does the Serbian List, which is dictated by Serbia's president, Vuciq, or the most radical pro-Russian forces”

He spoke of extraordinary elections held April 23rd in the north, said the same offered no solution.

Maliqi said VV and PDK-elect leaders will most likely not swear and elections will be announced again.

The options they had kept were not choosing, and the end of the month is approaching when the elected mayors with very few votes, all of Albanian nationality, would have to be inaugurated and take up tasks, which would hardly be able to exercise, because there is no competition, nor would they be able to enter the facilities of municipalities where even if they were helped by the police, they would face a boycott of the entire administration. Likely, the mayors elected from the VV and PDK ranks will not swear to create the status situation of once again declaring elections” he claimed Blic.

The Kosovo publicist also spoke of the tense situation that is ruling in Serbia after the recent massacres.

He said the protests held there are demanding Vuciq's resignation at the time when the West is pressuring it for imposing sanctions on Russia and implementing the Ohrid Agreement.

Maliqi warned that the same person could be declared non grata by the US. The EU and Great Britain.

There's a lot of trouble on all fronts these days. A very massive protest has just been held in Belgrade “Against violence”, prompted by two mass massacres at an elementary school in Belgrade and two in villages in the suburb of Belgrade. His resignation was required at the protest. This is happening in the most critical days when Western pressure has been increased to the height of the peak so that Serbia can finally impose sanctions on Russia. At the same time, Vuciq would have to start implementing the Ohrid Agreement whatever is objectively in pros and large Serb circles would be perceived as Serbia's capitulation in Kosovo. It's not clear whether I'm going to get Vuciqi to find a solution to the mess that he's created for years by balancing between East and West, and by installing an Ottoman power that cultivates a close relationship with organized crime, which was recently charged in a New York Times writing, which makes him a strong candidate to declare, as well as criminals Radojciq and Veselinovic, person not a woman in the US, the EU and Great Britain<3>

He argued that this situation created in Serbia could bring tensions even to the north of the country.

The clinched “Luk around Vuciqi's neck is not known what can bring Vuciqi and Serbia, but of course there will be consequences in the north and across the region. I don't see a chance for any elegant Wuchiqi pull. Only if the EU and the U.S. acted more energeticly, for which they have shown no will, could the explosive crisis that would include the north of Kosovo be averted. Even in this scenario, I hope that Serbia this time will not be able to export conflict outside its territory as it did during the programmed destruction of the former Yugoslav federation, walking on Slovenia's axis, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo. It is now expected of the internal explosion, something similar to the explosion in Albania in 1997” said Maliqi.