The government of Serbia warned this Monday of the risk of a new escalation of tensions regarding the situation of the Serb minority living in the north of Kosovoestimating that the situation is already “on the verge of armed conflict”, as explained by the Serbian Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic.
“I am afraid of an escalation. We will do everything to preserve the peace and stability that it is possible to achieve, but unfortunately I do not see any stability for the Serbs of Kosovo“Brnabic said in an interview on Serbian public television RTS.
Brnabic accused the kosovar government of systematically violating the human rights of the country’s Serb minority, and the European Union (EU) and the United States to ignore these violations, to which it attributes the protests and barricades with which the Kosovar Serbs have blocked the roads in the north of the country for days.
They ask for “respect for their basic human rights,” stressed the prime minister, and assured that so far this month alone, Pristina has committed 16 “brutal violations” of international agreements and basic human rights.
He also accused KFOR (the mission of the I’LL TAKE in Kosovo) for not having prevented the alleged “ethnic cleansing” of 312 Kosovar towns that since 1999 have reportedly been left without a Serb population.
While the institutions of the UE are limited to “silently watching”, all Serbian security services consider that the situation has reached “the brink of armed conflict”, Brnabic declared. (EFE)