Dacic: Kurti biggest threat to peace

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Sunday evening Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was the biggest threat to peace and any agreements.

In an appearance on Pink TV, he noted that questions about barricades put up by Serbs in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, raised by representatives of the international community as the main issue, were cynical.

He said the barricades were a means of political struggle by Kosovo-Metohija Serbs against Kurti's terror and for respect of the Brussels Agreement.

"The Serbs are reacting to disrespect of everything that has been signed to date. It is a political struggle by the Serbs, and now you have threats that someone is going to remove that (the barricades) by force. I think that Serb representatives are approaching that responsibly, and there are no incidents, which is important because we do not want to give anyone a reason to say the Serbs are to blame again," Dacic said.

He said it was very cynical that representatives of the international community raised the issue of barricades as the main issue after Pristina had banned Kosovo-Metohija Serbs from voting in a Serbian referendum and elections earlier this year and after it had also sent its special forces to the north of Kosovo-Metohija and done everything that was contrary to the Brussels Agreement.

"At a time when you have this attempt with vehicle licence plates, the appointment of some kind of their (Pristina's) Serbs to various bodies in Pristina, when the human rights of Serbs are being destroyed, when their security is being endangered rather than guaranteed, you have the irony and the cynicism that someone is raising the issue of barricades as the main one," Dacic said.