Zulfaj: Scandalous that Serbian nationalist song was performed at opening of EU Enlargement Forum

Kosovo’s chief negotiator with the European Union, Jeton Zulfaj, described as scandalous and unacceptable the performance of the Serbian patriotic song “Oj Kosovo, Kosovo” at the opening of the EU Enlargement Forum in Brussels, while representatives of Pristina institutions had not even been invited.

“We are appalled by reports from tonight’s EU enlargement event in Brussels. At the opening of the EU Enlargement Forum, a Serbian nationalist song denying Kosovo’s statehood was performed, a song written at a time when the Balkan butcher Milosevic was stripping Kosovo of its rights and repressing our people,” Zulfaj wrote on the social media platform X.

He called on European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos to explain how the song came to be performed.

“This is scandalous and unacceptable. An EU event dedicated to enlargement cannot provide a platform for Serbian nationalism. We will leave it to Commissioner Kos to explain how this happened and what measures she will take, as well as why Kosovo—which has made the greatest democratic progress in the Western Balkans this decade and is fully aligned with EU foreign policy and values—was not invited,” Zulfaj said.

Earlier, Kosovo’s Ambassador to Belgium and Pristina’s chief negotiator in the dialogue with Belgrade, Agron Bajrami, also reacted to the performance on X, describing it as “an unacceptable platforming of political claims to Kosovo’s territory.”