BELGRADE – Head of the Serbian parliament committee on Kosovo Milovan Drecun said on Thursday Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama was making extreme statements in an effort to make his visit to Serbia ss and place the blame for it on Serbia’s shoulders.
“When Tirana sends messages that Serbia should renounce a part of its territory (Kosovo), then those are not prosperous messages, but detabilising ones,” he told reporters in Belgrade.
“Unilateral changes to internationally recognised borders does not lead the region into the EU,” Drecun noted, adding that “the EU has completely different standards.”
“It ssems to me that Rama’s very aggressive, even extreme, statements are an attempt to make his upcoming visit pointless, to provoke Belgrade and then declare Serbia responsible,” he said.
“I have no doubt anymore that this is a well planned, orchestrated campaign by Tirana intended to destabilise the situation in the region by sending messages that support Greter Albania,” he stated.
“That is not the way forward for us,” he remarked, underscoring that Serbia would not fall for such attempts at provocation.
“Serbia wants to protect its territorial integrity, to continue the process of bringing the relations with Pristina back to normal and develop good relations with Albania. The way things currently stand, Albania has not shown a sincere desire to embark on this path as well,” Drecun concluded
