Petkovic: Futile attempts by Osmani to portray Serbia as a destabilizing factor

The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija of the Government of Serbia, Petar Petkovic, announced that Vjosa Osmani's attempts to portray Serbia as a destabilizing factor in the Western Balkans, by making inappropriate and artificial parallels between our region and the situation in Ukraine, were futile and transparent, because, as he stated, the responsible and peace-making policy of Belgrade was precisely the strongest obstacle to the realization of Albin Kurti's pyromaniac ambitions.

"It is clear that Kurti wants to become a Balkan war leader, so that he can finally wear an olive uniform, instead of which he wore a prison uniform during the armed conflicts in Kosovo and Metohija, but no one wants to participate in his plans to destabilize the region, nor wants to help make his boyhood warrior and Greater Albanian dreams come true," Petkovic announced.

He added that Serbia, with its every act, both domestically and internationally, "is frantically trying to prevent and neutralize the potentially disastrous consequences of Kurti's policy of inciting hatred and conflict in the Western Balkans by peaceful means", stressing that this was obvious to everyone.

"With daily demonstrations of force, violation of Serbs' human rights, usurpation of land and buildings in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, and now with a blitzkrieg against fishermen in Gazivode, Pristina wants to drag Serbia into conflicts with NATO, but today nobody, except Kurti and Vjosa Osmani, is at war, and that is why any hysterical attempt to denigrate Serbia will inevitably return as a political boomerang to the warmongers from Pristina," Petkovic pointed out.

He states that "instead of constantly sabotaging the process of normalization of relations, among other things, with incoherent slanderous attacks on Belgrade, the political extremists from Pristina should finally ask themselves what good the constant warming of the war atmosphere brings to the Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija, and what kind of social and economic consequences the ordinary people who just want to build personal and collective prosperity would feel."