Milicevic: Albanians' Western mentors silent on aspirations to creating Greater Albania

Djordje Milicevic, Minister without portfolio in the Government of Serbia in charge of relations with the diaspora, says that "Kosovo is less independent today" than it was in 2008 when the Kosovo Assembly adopted the Declaration of Independence, RTV reports.

"That is what bothers them the most, and that is why they are only concerned with how to ethnically cleanse Kosovo and Metohija. It is their only democracy based on causing incidents directed against Serbs, the devastation of Serbian culture and heritage, destruction of Serbian churches and cemeteries, in order to wipe out every trace of the existence of the Serbian people in the area of Kosovo and Metohija," Milicevic stated.

He also stated that, especially since Albin Kurti came to power, the number of incidents had become more frequent and brutal, until the one in Strpce, when children were attacked on Christmas Day by a member of the Kosovo Security Forces, which, as Milicevic added, "is more of a terrorist act, than an incident."

He noted that Pristina's practice was to intensify activities against Serbs on Orthodox religious holidays, only to intimidate them even more. 

"In addition, some of their foreign mentors declare Kosovo democratic because, according to them, democracy is based on the abolition of basic rights," Milicevic says.

On that occasion, he points to the ban on Serbs from voting in the elections, attacks on Serbian young men, and also to the aspiration to create Greater Albania.

"What the Western mentors are silent on even if they are aware of their aspirations, as well as Edi Rama, who dreams of the unification of all 'Albanian territories in the Balkans'. What speaks best about their independence and their lists of countries that recognize them is the fact that with the arrival of the new government in Serbia in 2012, instead of receiving new recognitions, they received 24 de-recognitions", Milicevic reminds and adds that this is also the case for oppositionists who attack the ruling majority as it betrayed the Kosovo issue.

Milicevic says that everyone should know that there is no agreement without Serbia, and to reach it, the issues of relations toward the Serbs in Kosovo must be resolved first.

Also, as he says, it is necessary to stop the practice of incidents and expulsion of Serbs and to start implementing everything that has been agreed upon in the meantime.

It is necessary, he adds, to resolve the issue of the cadastre, the property of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the general property of the Serbs in Kosovo, because without eliminating all these problems, Milicevic warns, any discussion about the implementation of some new Franco-German or other proposal is a waste of time.

"Serbia will always continue to talk because President Aleksandar Vucic is always for a dialogue, and Serbia is also ready for compromise solutions, but only those solutions that are based solely on justice, and not as some want for one side to get everything and the other to be left without everything," Milicevic concluded.