Kurti: Because we are successful, Belgrade is more nervous and therefore more aggressive

And this comment, a Bloomberg scripture estimates, is likely to disturb Western supporters who have called for content.

 

As Bloomberg writes, Pristina's moves to close Serbia-backed institutions and to ban the use of the Serbian dinar have prompted warnings from the US and the European Union that actions could pose a threat to fragile peace in the Balkans.

“They are very concerned”, Kurti was quoted as saying in an interview during his visit to Warsaw.

 

 

Every time we take action, there are alarming voices for possible escalation, but here we are. Kosovo is better than ever before”, he has said further.

Bloomberg points out that the majority of the Serb community in Kosovo lives in northern Kosovo.

 

 

Actions, including the closure of Serbian bank branches in this part, wrote this medium, follow a shootout last year near an Orthodox monastery in northern Kosovo that left a Kosovo police officer and three Serb militants dead.

Kurt, however, defended his actions as necessary to restore law and order in the long - divided north.

 

 

He also insisted that steps are needed towards establishing control over Serb majority areas and their full integration into Kosovo's legal and financial systems.

My impression is that precisely because we are successful, Belgrade is more nervous and subsequently more aggressive”, he points out.

 

 

Bloomberg recalls that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucinic has repeatedly accused Kurti of putting pressure on the Serb community to leave Kosovo.

He also called for implementation of an EU-brokered agreement under which the Serb community is allowed some “authonomie”.

In addition, last month, Vucic urged the government in Pristina to hold local elections in northern municipalities.

But the idea “cannot be realised”, says Kurti.

Voting in northern municipalities will take place only during elections in the fall of next year”, he said.

“Vucciq failed, and now he wants us to pay for his failure”, Kurti has said further, adding that the time when the Serbian president has an impact on Kosovo's internal affairs “has long passed”.

 

 

At the end of the writing, Bloomberg stresses that under an EU-brokered agreement in 2013, Serbs agreed to participate in local and central governments in Kosovo, but left in 2021 due to allegations of discrimination and have since boycotted two votes.

But according to the media, the arrests of local Serbs by Kosovo police have also raised tensions, while several thousand NATO-led peacekeepers remain in the area.

 

 

Meanwhile, this medium says, to return to dialogue, Kurti demanded from Serbia the handover of Milan Radojicic, who claimed responsibility for last year's armed attack near the monastery.

He also urged the EU to exercise more pressure on Belgrade to assist in “the debut of tensions” with an agreement on normalising relations.

 

 

The “was supposed to happen yesterday”, Kurt said. “I believe possible”.