Sutanovac: Kurti is becoming a "bad guy" in the eyes of the West

The President of the Council for Strategic Policies and the former Minister of Defense of Serbia, Dragan Sutanovac, said today that the manipulation served from Pristina had not passed in Washington and that the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, was becoming a "bad guy" in the eyes of the West, RTV reports.

"The change of course happened when Kurti refused to accept the EU solution regarding the license plates in Kosovo and Metohija. He became a bad guy at that moment and his popularity is slowly fading in the West. He is aware of this. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, he has been trying all the time to cause various conflicts in Kosovo, to present himself as a victim, and Serbia as a country that would attack Pristina," Sutanovac told Tanjug.

Speaking about the Franco-German proposal, Sutanovac said that "there is no best proposal".

"Even if you ask those who want Kosovo and Metohija to return to the formal-legal framework of Serbia, with all the inhabitants, they would probably say, that is not our idea, our idea is to return the territory, not those people. There is no ideal solution here, neither for the Belgrade nor the Pristina side," Sutanovac pointed out.

He stated that Serbia should insist on the implementation of the decisions that had already been signed, namely the Brussels Agreement and the formation of the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities.

"This puts Kurti in a somewhat difficult situation; he has been promising for years that he will not do it and that it cannot be done before Serbia recognizes Kosovo. His arguments would not change even if Serbia recognized Kosovo, and Serbia will not do it. So, his arguments fall flat; Western partners trust Belgrade more than Pristina, and I think they are in a bigger problem than Belgrade," Sutanovac said.

Sutanovac emphasized that Serbia currently had much better relations with the US than it had a few years ago.