Brnabic: Letter, tweets by Kearns, Roth prove Kurti has support for undermining peace

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Tuesday a letter a group of politicians had sent to top US, EU and UK officials, as well as tweets by Alicia Kearns, Michael Roth and Bob Menendez, were more than welcome as they provided "living proof that (Pristina's PM Albin) Kurti does indeed enjoy full support and encouragement for undermining peace and stability in the Balkans" while avoiding implementation of reached agreements and for undermining the fundamental human rights of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.

In a Twitter post in which she responded to the politicians' call to Western countries to protect the so-called Kosovo from Serbia, Brnabic noted that Kurti was "avoiding the implementation of reached agreements (both the Brussels Agreement, by rejecting the establishment of the Association of Serb Municipalities for over 10 years, and the Ohrid Agreement which stipulates the implementation of the Brussels Agreement)."

"All anyone needs to know about democracy & rule of law in Kosovo* is this: (1) since the beginning of this year, 6 Serbs were shot by members of the Kosovo* security apparatus – and no one was held responsible;

(2) a member of the Kosovo* police, who shot at a 11-year-old boy and a 21-year-old young man on Christmas Eve, has been released from custody and is now a free man;

(3) since the beginning of Kurti’s administration in 2021, to date, 32 Serbs were unlawfully arrested, with some of them imprisoned for over 20 months without any charges, in addition to enduring torture, maltreatment, and daily insults on national basis," Brnabic noted.

"The most striking example of the (lack of) credibility and objectivity of those who initiated this letter is that Alicia Kearns

managed to become one of the rare individuals whose public statements had to be refuted by KFOR," Brnabic added.

"When Kearns alleged that the Serbian Orthodox Church is smuggling weapons into Kosovo*, KFOR, as the military mission of NATO, stated: 'There is no evidence regarding the alleged smuggling carried out… in Orthodox churches by ambulances.' Despite this clear statement from KFOR, Kearns continues to parade these lies, even within this letter. And that summarizes all anyone needs to know about the letter itself," she noted.

A group of Western politicians that includes openly pro-Albanian lobbyists Bob Menendez and Michael Roth has sent a letter to EU foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell, US State Secretary Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in which it called for a tougher approach to Serbia, the German paper Tagesspiegel has reported.