Vucevic: Kurti wants Kosovo-Metohija without Serbs, int'l community tacitly allowing that

DESPOTOVAC - Commenting on a recent arrest of five Serbs and Monday's closure of Post of Serbia branch offices in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said he was concerned over the destiny of Serbs in the province and noted that he was dissatisfied with the reaction of the international community.

"I am dissatisfied with the reaction of the international community because I think a large part of them are tacitly allowing Albin Kurti to do what he is doing because if they were not, they would impose sanctions on him," Vucevic told reporters at the Resavica mine, which he visited on Miners' Day.

He noted that Pristina had arrested five Serbs in the Kosovsko Pomoravlje region two days ago.

"It was only now that they (Pristina) remembered that those people committed alleged crimes in 1999," he added.

"They are targeting every one of our families. Kurti has banned us from getting food and medicines, seized our petrol pumps and a part of the power generation system and attacked health centres and outpatient clinics. And now, he has also banned our post offices and previously also the Postal Savings Bank. Only schools and kindergartens remain," Vucevic said.

He added that the complete lawlessness and terror in Kosovo-Metohija were aimed at a full ethnic cleansing of Serbs.

"They want the Serbs to remain in little enclaves, like in reservations. Hopefully someone in the international community will wake up. We have only the option of reacting politically, everything else leads us to conflict and war. And that is what Kurti wants because he knows we would not be fighting against him but against NATO. That is his goal and he evidently has the support of a part of the international community, to the disgrace of entire Europe," Vucevic said.

He added that postal services were a part of Brussels agreements from 2013 and 2015.

"It is a festival of democracy and human rights for everyone except the Serbs. When it is about the Serbs, there is no inviolability of borders and there are no agreements that have been accepted. I hope we will have the political wisdom and the strength to safeguard our much-suffering people in Kosovo-Metohija," he concluded.