Belgrade has fulfilled all its obligations in Kosovo and it is now up to Pristina to secure the legal order and an absence of violence, says Aleksandar Vulin.
The Serbian labor minister told the Belgrade-based TV Pink broadcaster on Tuesday that the situation in Kosovo and Metohija was “complex,” and that “everything that was done in the past two or three years was done with the idea of forming a community of Serb municipalities and strengthening the position of Serbs.”
“All our obligations have been fulfilled, we did absolutely everything our government signed, everything has been fulfilled,” Vulin stressed.
In a reference to an incident in Kosovska Mitrovica last week, he said that “everything started when, as usual, five unknown, never-punished and never-caught perpetrators attacked a Serb boy and stabbed him with a knife.”
Vulin stressed that “the day when clear and loud condemnation of violence against Serbs will be heard from Pristina is still awaited,” along with statements that Albanians who committed violence against Serbs “must be held responsible in line with the law of the interim institutions in Pristina.”
Vulin also said that Serbs in Kosovo are “right to expect Serbian government’s support,” adding that it can “at this time pressure Pristina and the international community, and not cut any spending in Kosovo and Metohija,” because, according to the minister, “the most important thing is how (people) live in that province.”
