Vucic: Kurti wants to spark conflict before US elections, his time is running out

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday evening Pristina's PM Albin Kurti wanted to spark a conflict before the US elections as his time was slowly running out and that he was using provocations to turn NATO against Serbia.

"He is very nervous, and our people in Kosovo-Metohija are going through a hard time. His political position is not as simple as it was, say, two years ago," Vucic told reporters when asked if the opening of a bridge on the Ibar River in Kosovska Mitrovica could lead to an escalation of violence.

Vucic was visiting the construction site of a national football stadium in the Belgrade municipality of Surcin.

He said Monday's raid of Post of Serbia offices in the north of Kosovo-Metohija by the so-called Kosovo Police was not a result of a policy, but of violence.

"We have signed agreements on post offices and...