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He said they asked Kosovo to make electoral changes, but did not pressure the only political party of ethnic Serbs to participate in the vote...
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, this Thursday complained about bias towards his country by the United States and the European Union and tolerance towards what he called the authoritarian regime of Serbia.
In an interview for "The Associated Press", he said that the EU envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, and the US envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, are addressing Kosovo with Serbia's demands, while said that positive behavior towards an autocrat does not make him good.
“We insist that being nice to an autocrat does not make him behave better. On the contrary. The US and EU envoys for the Kosovo-Serbia talks - namely Escobar and Lajcak - come to us with requests, with the requests of the other side ," said the head of the Kosovo government,
Ethnic Serbs recently clashed with Kosovo police and then with the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force, leaving 30 soldiers and over 50 Serbs injured and provoking fears of renewed bloody conflicts in the region.
Lars-Gunnar Wigemark, the outgoing head of the EU Rule of Law Mission, known as EULEX, said that during last week's violent confrontation "there were very serious injuries from some KFOR soldiers".
" There was already violence of the worst kind. Everyone... says we are lucky that there were no victims ," he said.
After soldiers were injured last week, NATO said it would send 700 additional troops to northern Kosovo. Wigemark said that the time would come when EULEX's civilian police, which no longer have executive powers, would not be needed in Kosovo. But the conditions are not yet there, he said.
The European diplomat did not rule out that NATO could deploy "thousands of military troops" in Kosovo.
" If the situation is becoming more and more unstable, if it starts to escalate again, of course, this is an option ," he said.
The clashes followed an earlier confrontation after ethnic Albanian candidates who were declared winners of local elections in northern Kosovo entered municipal buildings to take office and were blocked by Serbs, who overwhelmingly boycotted the vote. Brussels has asked Kosovo to withdraw its special police forces from northern Kosovo, where most of the ethnic Serb minority lives, and hold new elections.
In February and March, Kosovo and Serbia reached an agreement facilitated by the EU to normalize relations, with an 11-point plan for implementation. The process remains the focus of talks mediated by envoys from Washington and Brussels.
Kurti insisted that the special police forces could not leave until the Serbian criminal gangs either left the country or were arrested. He said that there would be peace in Kosovo if there were no "orders for violence from Belgrade".
"Western powers should not satisfy Belgrade, the root problem of violence in the Western Balkans ," Kurti said.
Kurti complained that even for the early April elections in the four northern municipalities with a Serbian majority, "European international mediators failed".
Ai tha se ata i kërkuan Kosovës të bënte ndryshime zgjedhore, por nuk ushtronin presion mbi partinë e vetme politike të serbëve etnikë për të marrë pjesë në votim. Ai tha se do t'i duhej ndihma e bashkësisë ndërkombëtare për të nxitur pluralizmin politik në pakicën etnike serbe "për një konkurrencë të ndershme, për një garë demokratike për kryetarët e rinj të bashkive".
“Ne nuk mund të përballojmë një proces tjetër ku kandidatët serbë e bojkotojnë atë disa ditë para fillimit të zgjedhjeve, sepse kështu urdhëron Beogradi,” tha ai.
Wigemark, i cili gjithashtu ka shërbyer në Bosnje-Hercegovinë, tha se ishte jetike që këto lloj incidentesh të mos lejohen të shpërthejnë, e të kalojnë në një lloj konflikti të armatosur.
" Continuous dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, this is the place to resolve most of the outstanding issues, " he said./ Adapted "Pamphlet" from "Associated Press"
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