Mijacic: After 1999, this is the most complicated situation in Kosovo

The coordinator of the National Convention on the EU for Chapter 35, Dragisa Mijacic, said today that Kosovo was currently in the most complicated situation since 1999, IndeksOnline reports.

Mijacic told Tanjug that the situation was particularly complicated in the north, where many Special Police Forces were making arrests.

"We have many examples of mistreatment of the local population, recently we had a situation where children were attacked as the most sensitive part of society, so we can say that at this moment the current situation in the north of Kosovo is very complex and after many years and the war in Kosovo in 1999, this is the most complicated situation that happened in Kosovo and Metohija," he said.

Mijacic believes that it cannot be said that there is no reaction from Washington and Brussels, given that diplomatic activities are very intense, that there is also a package of measures targeting the Kosovo government in order to fulfill a three-point plan for de-escalating the situation in the north of Kosovo, which, he points out, are situations and circumstances with which the Kosovo government has never met.

He adds that the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, shows resistance to such decisions from the West and that the question arises as to how long he can not implement what is clearly required of him by international partners. He notes that it is necessary for the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and Albin Kurti to speak positively about the meeting with High EU Representative Josep Borrell because Vucic and Kurti definitely have to meet.

As he says, there is only a political solution to solving these problems, not a police one.

He believes that at this moment, the extraordinary elections in Kosovo are not such an important issue, because the organization of the elections would take a very long time, at least six months while the campaign is organized and a new government is formed, and there is no space in the north of Kosovo to preserve peace for six months under such circumstances.

"The most important thing is to apply the three points for de-escalation of the situation proposed by the European Commission, adopted by all EU countries, the US, and Great Britain, and after this security crisis, extraordinary elections can be organized in Kosovo, in a different atmosphere," he concluded.