Vučić for the Italian "La Stampa": "Let Kurti withdraw troops and there'll be peace"
The entire interview is presented below.
"Kosovo is part of Serbia, that is very clear. It is written in the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia, it is also confirmed by the UN Resolution from 1999. What is the problem?" Aleksandar Vui, the President of Serbia, is in Belgrade and is scheduled to meet the parents of the children killed in the horrific massacre at the elementary school that took place at the beginning of May and caused a state of shock in the country and triggered a series of protests.
An hour before the rally, he talks to the journalists of "La Stampa" and follows the non-stop flow of completely different gatherings, protests of his people, 300 kilometers away, in the north of Kosovo. "Our people there are angry," he says. He was supposed to meet with Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti in Bratislava yesterday, but Vui did not go. "We're going to Chisinau tomorrow (today, for readers)." But Kurti will not be there. In a game of tactical passing of the ball, which according to the leader from Belgrade, is the fault of Pristina, which does not want peace in the Balkans.
President Vui, Kosovo Serbs from the North are reporting violence by the Pristina police. In your opinion, what kind of discrimination are we talking about?
"Serbs living in the North and in other enclaves feel attacked by special units of the Kosovo police. Almost every week. There are reliable sources that confirm this. Pristina has no right to have special police in the North. They detain, stop, harass our people. Kurti has always said, "We are a sovereign country, we have the right to deploy our forces wherever we want". Clearly, he cannot do that. And he has done more than that. People have started protesting against the illegal and illegitimate mayoral...
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