Djuric: Our citizen Gervalla opens the New Year with labels and insults

Following a statement by Kosovo’s caretaker minister of foreign affairs, Donika Gervala, in which she said that she does not threaten Serbia but that the real threat is Serbia’s state leadership, which she claims “dreams of a regional empire,” Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Marko Djuric pointed out that, instead of announcing normalization of relations, dialogue, and work toward a shared future, she is opening the new year with labels and insults.

“In 2026 as well, Kurti’s regime continues to function as Europe’s black hole—without perspective, but with a pronounced talent for generating problems,” Djuric wrote on the social network X.

Kurti’s regime, he added, is bad for Albanians and for Serbs, and risky for everyone in Kosovo and the region who expects a minimum level of stability.

“Instead of announcing normalization of relations, dialogue, and work toward a shared future, that regime’s spokesperson, Donika Gervalla Schwarz, is opening the new year with a familiar repertoire—labels and insults,” Djuric noted.

He also said that lectures about Serbia are legitimate, “especially when they come from our citizen and fellow national,” but that they would sound more convincing if they did not come from authorities entering the new year with a serious human rights deficit, damaged interethnic relations, and a practice in which pressure on Serbs, as well as on Albanians who think differently, almost always replaces the rule of law.

Earlier, Gervalla wrote on the social network X that no one is threatening Serbia, but that the threat lies in its leadership.

“The fact is that no one is threatening Serbia. The real threat lies in its leadership, which, instead of building a normal European society focused on EU reforms and democracy, dreams of a regional empire—a Russian way of thinking on a smaller scale. It would not be the first time that Serbia sets Europe ablaze,” Gervalla wrote.