Kurti: People from the Serb List will pay and suffer for the mistake they made

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, said that he alone had presented a proposal in Brussels today, regarding the way of implementing the Ohrid Agreement.

"We have returned to the situation from April 2013. But now Catherine Ashton and Hashim Thaci are not here. There are 39 agreements that must be implemented. I cannot accept that the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities is agreed upon before the roadmap for the implementation of the Ohrid Agreement." Kurti said.

He said that he was "not running away" from the Brussels Agreement.

"But the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities with a Serbian cannot be implemented before other agreements and it cannot be a prerequisite for the implementation of the Ohrid Agreement," Kurti says.
He reiterated again that he was ready to personally write the draft of the CSM Statute and referred to the decision of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo and Frederica Mogherini's letter, stating that "the CSM cannot be the third level of Government in Kosovo".

Kurti also said that he would not ask the mayors to resign, even though their legitimacy was weak.

"We cannot force the mayors to resign. Their legitimacy is weak, but the others have none. Those who left the institutions cannot tell us about it now. Resignation is a moral, individual act. It is a dictatorial mentality to force someone to resign. It cannot be done in Kosovo if it can be done in Serbia. People from the Serb List will suffer and pay for the mistakes they made. The Serbs who integrated live well. Those who did not live badly," Kurti said.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti addresses the media after a new round of dialogue that was held in Brussels and which Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Josep Borrell on behalf of the EU said ended unsuccessfully due to the refusal of the Pristina side to accept a compromise proposal on the path to normalization.

Early this morning in Brussels, separate meetings were first held between the European head of diplomacy Josep Borrell, and the Envoy for Dialogue Miroslav Lajcak with Vucic and Kurti, and then a trilateral meeting.