Vucic: Kurti trying to start war, we want to preserve peace

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday evening Pristina PM Albin Kurti's behaviour was an attempt of starting a conflict of war and that Kurti was doing that in an organised manner with support from some Western powers, while Belgrade wanted to preserve peace.

"Kurti's behaviour is an attempt of causing a conflict of war. We do not want war, we want to preserve peace, but he is doing that in a preconceived, organised manner, with support from some Western powers," Vucic told reporters when asked to comment on the pressure on Serbs and intimidation by the Kurti regime, which arrested a group of Serbs on Saturday and raided Post of Serbia offices in the north of Kosovo-Metohija on Monday.

He said a European External Action Service statement on the developments was "brazen and disgraceful" as it urged Pristina and Belgrade to discuss Kurti's unilateral and illegal actions.

"So when he kills 20 people next time around, we will again engage in dialogue to discuss whether he was allowed to or not and what their ideas for overcoming that are," Vucic said during a tour of the Tirsova 2 children's hospital in Belgrade, which is under construction.

Whatever stupid thing Kurti does, Europe calls on us to "discuss something that has been violated brutally," Vucic said.

He said he had spoken with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak to convey an unequivocal message.

"I am very concerned - I will say no more because I am afraid I could hurt the interests of my country and my people," Vucic said.