Petkovic with Powell: Kurti provokes crises and tensions in Kosovo on a daily basis

The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, met today with the National Security Adviser of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Jonathan Powell, whom he informed about the political and security situation in Kosovo and about the course of the Belgrade–Pristina dialogue taking place in Brussels.

Petkovic conveyed that Belgrade is committed to normalizing relations through dialogue with Pristina, which has been demonstrated through active engagement in implementing the Declaration on Missing Persons, but that Pristina is destroying every possibility of an agreement, as well as the fact that for a full 12 years it has refused to form the Community of Serb Municipalities, even though it committed to it in its own parliament, the Office for Kosovo and Metohija said.

Petkovic pointed out that Albin Kurti’s administration takes escalatory actions almost daily, carries out arbitrary and politically motivated arrests of Serbs, provokes crises and tensions, and thereby directly seeks to create impossible living conditions for the Serbian people, change the ethnic structure in Kosovo, and destabilize the entire Western Balkans with its irresponsible policy.

“Belgrade, led by President Aleksandar Vucic, will continue to preserve peace and stability and, through dialogue, strive for compromise solutions aimed at improving the lives of people in Kosovo and Metohija,” the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija said.

The meeting was also attended by the Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Serbia, Edward Ferguson.