Mijacic: Kurti played the card of creating animosity towards KFOR among Albanians

Coordinator of the National Convention on the European Union, Dragisa Mijacic, regarding the Kosovo Prime Minister's criticism of the international community and KFOR, said that Albin Kurti had played the card of creating public animosity towards KFOR within the Albanian public.

Kurti told Kosovo Online that he was "surprised by the tolerance and silence of the international community regarding the arrest of three Kosovo police officers", and especially that KFOR had not issued an official statement about the place where the incident had taken place - whether deep in the territory of central Serbia, as claimed by official Belgrade, or on the territory of Kosovo, as they claimed from Pristina.

Kurti asked if KFOR's silence was "perhaps a violation of the Resolution 1244 of the United Nations Security Council, which, as he pointed out, the Mission Commander referred to in every statement he made."

Mijacic says that such messages are an attempt to "create public pressure towards KFOR in order to preemptively ensure that the report of this Mission is in accordance with the official version of Pristina".

"Given that KFOR has built solid relations with the local community, that its members participated in sports games with the locals of Leposavic, Kurti is now trying to shift the blame for the arrest of Kosovo Special Forces to this Mission, especially in the public eye. Kurti does not care about the truth of yesterday's incident, but how the Kosovo public will perceive those events," Mijacic points out.

According to Mijacic, the second card that Kurti plays with such messages is to point out the obsolescence of the Resolution 1244.

"Although he often says that Kosovo does not need the Resolution 1244, in this case, he refers to it, all in order to build a narrative that Serbia, by arresting three Kosovo policemen, is violating the provisions of the Resolution, and KFOR does not prevent it from doing so. Such attitudes have a useful value in the domestic public, while the provisions of the Resolution or actual events are less important. These types of communication have the potential to create animosity in the local public and among its voters towards KFOR and the international community," he says.