Djuric: At the UN Security Council session, I will point out Kurti's and Svecla's increasingly blatant boasts that they will not establish the CSM

Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Djuric stated today that Serbia will, at tomorrow's UN Security Council session, highlight the increasingly audacious and blatant public statements by Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti, Interior Minister Xhelal Sveçla, and other Kosovo officials, who are now openly declaring and boasting that they do not intend to establish the Community of Serb Municipalities (CSM).

Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Djuric stated today that Serbia will, at tomorrow's UN Security Council session, highlight the increasingly audacious and blatant public statements by Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti, Interior Minister Xhelal Sveçla, and other Kosovo officials, who are now openly declaring and boasting that they do not intend to establish the Community of Serb Municipalities (CSM).

Djuric pointed out that the events between the two UNMIK reports have been distressing, with additional rights denied to the Serbs.

"What has been happening is truly disturbing. Serbs in Kosovo have had further collective rights revoked during this period. Kurti's regime has raided provisional institutions employing 5,800 of our compatriots, and even worse, some of the most basic services for the Serbian population in the north have been disrupted due to these raids," said Djuric from New York, a day before the UN Security Council session.

Djuric emphasized that the treatment of Serbs in Kosovo reveals who in the international community stands up for not only the UN Charter but also the most fundamental principles of humanity.

"Our message to the entire international community is that the situation of Serbs in Kosovo today serves as a measure of who is willing to defend not only the UN Charter but also the most basic principles of humanity, as an entire population in 21st-century Europe is isolated and deprived of basic services – and I won’t exaggerate in calling this a form of ghettoization," Djuric stated.

He added that Serbia needs more than a UNMIK report. What is needed, he stressed, is zero tolerance and condemnation of all violations of Serbian rights.

"The international mission in Kosovo implies documenting and reporting events, but what we need is something entirely different. In Kosovo, we need zero tolerance for trampling on the collective political, economic, cultural, and other rights of minority communities, primarily the Serbian community, as Serbs face the most pressure, but Goranis, Muslims, Bosniaks, and Roma are also targeted. In short, anyone who does not fit into Kurti’s nationalist agenda," Djuric elaborated.

He stated that Serbia will present all these facts at the UN Security Council session, laying them bare for the international public.

"We will present numerous facts, specific examples, and human stories affected by this one-sided action. Additionally, I want to address—and will certainly address tomorrow—the increasingly blatant and audacious public statements of Kurti, Sveçla, and other leaders of the provisional institutions, who now openly boast that they have no intention of establishing the CSM," Djuric pointed out.

He noted that Pristina openly boasts about its disregard for Article 9 of the Brussels Agreement, which stipulates that the police force in northern Kosovo should be proportional to the population.

"This is essentially them promoting the fact that they are violating an internationally agreed-upon commitment, ratified with a two-thirds majority in the Pristina parliament. I’ll remind everyone that the Brussels Agreement, including the CSM and the Serbian police in the north, is part of Kosovo's constitution. It was ratified with a two-thirds majority in Pristina's parliament, thus gaining legal force as part of their constitution. They are openly stating that they will not honor this," Djuric remarked.

He considers this not merely a slap in the face of the international community but a call to action.

He stated that part of his speech tomorrow will be a rational and well-argued call to action. He clarified that Serbia has no issue with the Albanian people and is not in conflict with them.

"We want a different future-oriented relationship across the Balkans, which we demonstrate through our relationship with Albania. We especially want this with the people living in Kosovo and Metohija, who we do not want to be hostages to Kurti’s ethno-nationalist policies. At the same time, we will firmly insist on the rights of Serbs, which must not be endangered. We will expose and lay bare all past injustices," Djuric emphasized.

He announced that he will also address the issue of political prisoners at the UN Security Council session.

"We have 86 Serbian political prisoners, many of whom are truly political prisoners. These are people detained extrajudicially or under fabricated charges, including those who simply came to reclaim their seized property, only to be accused of alleged war crimes the moment they filed a claim. If they withdraw the claim, they cease to be war criminals," Djuric explained.

He pointed out that dozens of Serbs have been unlawfully arrested, some simply for peacefully protesting or participating in barricades.

"Regardless of any violence, and despite the fact that there were guarantees from the EU and the US in a joint statement," the minister highlighted.

He stressed that Serbia’s stance at tomorrow's session will not be confrontational or aimed at escalation but will be based on the strong belief that "if the facts are on our side, we should receive support."

"We are asking the international community for a clear, public zero tolerance for unilateral and uncoordinated actions aimed at the ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Kosovo. We demand the full implementation of the Brussels Agreement and the establishment of the CSM. We also demand the return of Serbs to the police and judiciary and the holding of free and fair democratic elections in Kosovo. This is the bare minimum that anyone who wants normalization, regardless of their stance on Kosovo’s status, should support," Djuric concluded.