Brnabic: Derecognitions of so-called Kosovo biggest success of Serbian authorities

BELGRADE - The candidate for Serbian parliament speaker, Ana Brnabic, said on Monday derecognitions of the so-called Kosovo by 28 countries since 2012 were the greatest success of the present Serbian authorities.

All that was to be lost in Kosovo-Metohija was lost by 2012 "in order to appease the West and Western partners, starting from 2001, when the authorities at the time released more than 1,800 (Kosovo) Albanian terrorists," Brnabic said in the national parliament.

"That is how it started, and it continued in 2004, when there was a pogrom against Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija but the Belgrade authorities were silent and doing absolutely nothing," Brnabic said.

From their offices, they watched the Devic monastery and the Church of Our Lady of Ljevis burn and the Serbs being ethnically cleansed from six cities and nine municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija, Brnabic said.

"And then, there was a declaration of independence by a group of people in Pristina in 2008, when our authorities at the time issued a press release. Then, in 2010, the talks were moved to Brussels from the UN, where we also have friends and partners that do not recognise the so-called, false republic of Kosovo, and so on," she said.

Brnabic said derecognitions of the so-called Kosovo and unity of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija were the greatest successes of the present Serbian authorities.