Petkovic: Belgrade’s agenda is dialogue and compromise; Kurti knows only tensions and provocations

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petkovic said this evening, responding to a statement by Kosovo’s caretaker prime minister Albin Kurti that EU measures were unfair and imposed because of Serbia, that Belgrade’s agenda is dialogue, peace, and compromise, while Kurti knows only how to raise tensions, escalate, and provoke.

“That is why, for the past two days, he has been conducting his pre-election campaign in the north of Kosovo and Metohija. He will receive an answer to such an obsession at the elections on 28 December,” Petkovic wrote on the social network X.

Earlier today, welcoming the EU’s decision to lift punitive measures against Kosovo, Kurti said the measures had been unfair because of divisions imposed by Serbia.

“Our government has consistently maintained from the very beginning that these measures were unfair, as they sanctioned Kosovo for divisions organized by Serbia—an agenda that has also led to multiple major terrorist attacks on our territory, including the fatal attack in Banjska and another on the Ibar–Lepenac that targeted critical infrastructure,” Kurti wrote on X.

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani announced last night, following the EU–Western Balkans summit, that a decision had been taken to lift the measures imposed on Kosovo.