Djuric: Kurti's futile attempt to demonize Serbia, Pristina is a factor of instability

The Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marko Djuric, stated today that an op-ed in the New York Times is a futile attempt by Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti to demonize Serbia and portray it as a factor of instability in the Western Balkans.

"Aggressive rhetoric and falsehoods, with which Kurti tried to deceive the international public in a regressive and anachronistic manner, speak of his confrontational nature and intention to destabilize the Western Balkans at any cost. His op-ed in the New York Times is a futile attempt to demonize Serbia and depict it as a factor of instability in the Western Balkans by playing the card of old prejudices," Djuric stated on the social network "X".

The truth, he asserts, is the opposite – Serbia is a pillar of regional peace and stability, a constructive international factor, and a credible interlocutor, while political leaders from Pristina, led by Albin Kurti, are the complete opposite of that.

"Their campaign to disenfranchise the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, their refusal to fulfill obligations undertaken in the course of dialogue with Belgrade, and their reluctance to even meet with our negotiators indicate that Pristina's real intentions are to rekindle conflict in the region so that local separatists can use such a situation to consolidate their state-building project," Djuric emphasized.

He added that he will thoroughly inform representatives of more than 30 countries who will gather at the upcoming NATO Summit in Washington about all these issues, to once again explain that the story of today's Serbia is a success story.