5 minutes agoVon Croamon in RTK: Violence is unacceptable
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)The rapporteur for Kosovo in the European Parliament, Violet von Cremon, who has consistently supported the visa liberalisation process for Kosovo, now has a criticism of the situation in the north. She thinks that with the latest protests, and with Serbs leaving the institutions, the situation there has returned as before 2013. In [...]
In an interview given to the last “” in RTK, she said it has not been easy to convince Serbs to join Kosovo institutions in 2013.
For us now, this is a return, a slide back ... Serbs are set to leave the institutions, and of course there is no easy answer and magic resolutions that regulates this case...”, said Violet von Croamon.
According to her, Serbs living in the south are as many citizens as others.
As for the recent elections in the north, she cited the fact that they were postponed once, but in the second case, she said there was very little turnout in the election. Von Croamon said Serbs in this case lost the chance to join institutions, but violence is now unacceptable.
How to fix this, fix it by force, do you think this is the solution? When the rest of the world asks you not to do this, is this legitimacy that can be perceived as such, and I doubt that”, she stressed.
Violet von Croamon: Using force against civilians is not a choice
In the question of what the solution is in this case, she said it is not for proposals.
“does not belong to me to offer proposals, but the use of force against civilians is not an election. Using special units in an environment where the municipality object should be protected, because you have a mayor who is short-listed, but we are still in a situation where you have to take responsibility for the situation as it is”, she said, which considers it necessary to continue the EU-led and facilitated dialogue to solve problems.
We remember that during the visit to the northern part of Kosovo, she has said she should think of another alternative, since the new mayors cannot be brought to work with cars.
I think a lot of things go wrong in this country if this is reality, if we see armoured cars, heavy-armed cops, special units that guard 24/7 municipal buildings, we really need to think about other possibilities and other options. That's not at least what we and the EU have in mind. I know this is a difficult situation, as I said before, the Government may have something else in mind, but as it implemented it, it's not in line with everything, at least we in the EU would like to see”, she said during the visit to the north.
