Serbia did not allow Svechla to visit Presevo, Shaip Kamberi reacts

Svechla announced early Thursday that Serbian authorities dismissed “unreasonablely” demand to visit the Presevo Valley in southern Serbia on the border with Kosovo.

Kamberi, who won another mandate in Serbia's Parliament during the controversial Serbian elections on December 17th, said through a Facebook note that the decision proves that the government in Belgrade does not change, it remains paranoid and hateful to any Albanian thing! ”

Albanians in Serbia live mainly in Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanoc ão municipalities known jointly as Presevo Valley.

In the Presevo Valley, according to the 2002 census, there were 88,966 registered citizens, out of them 57,737 Albanians, or 65 percent.

The current number of Albanians in the Presevo Valley is not clear.

“The visits of officials of the Republic of Kosovo and Albania in the Presevo Valley are not only necessary, they are necessary, and should be seen as ordinary, as happens in all democratic countries”, Kamberi said.

He said that the co-operation of Albanians from the Presevo Valley with Kosovo and Albania “will not stop”, and that “Belgrade can try, but will fail”.

Refusing the demands of Kosovo officials for a visit to southern Serbia municipalities inhabited by Albanian majority has had even before.

On November 27th, 2021, authorities in Serbia had refused the four ministers' application for a two-day visit to what is known as the Presevo Valley.

The refusal to call for a visit to Serbia had come after the Kosovo government had refused a visit to Kosovo by the head of the Office for Kosovo in Serbia's government, Petar Petkov.

From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspore, they had stated to Radio Free Europe that they are willing to reconsider the stance on allowing Petkov's visits to come, if “ai refrains from stimulating and provocative language in relation to citizens and institutions of the Republic of Kosovo”. / REL/