"No hope for better life in Kosovo" - minister (TV Most, Tanjug)
Serbian Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said that there was "no property or economic security, or social policy" in Kosovo and Metohija.
According to him, there is also "no hope things will get better."
Speaking on the anniversary of the self-proclaimed independence of Kosovo, Vulin told Tanjug that "people have realized that several families rule in Kosovo, with various clans determining their destiny," and that by leaving the territory, ethnic Albanians are saying "what they think about the self-proclaimed independence."
"One doesn't run away from an ordered country, from a good country, and you cannot, only because of the fact somebody recognized you as something, become a state. That's not how a state is made. A state is made based on historical premises, based on the economy, the rule of law, but also by being able to secure a social and political consensus in the area that you call your state," Vulin was quoted as saying.
He added that "relations within the Albanian community itself have been brought to the point of breaking," with "clear indicators that the current government (in Pristina) - that must always determine its policy based on street protests, that appoints and removes ministers more or less based on violent demonstrations - is not a stable government."
"The first elections after what representatives of some countries called 'the abolishing of supervised independence' resulted in a six-month deadlock of all institutions, in complete inability to count the results and determine who won, a complete deadlock, from the Constitutional Court down to the last institution," said Vulin.
The minister noted that "in the end, there is a government of Kosovo that is not capable of formulating its policy without street demonstrations and violence."
"The best appraisal of the so-called independence of Kosovo and Metohija has been made by the citizens of Albanian ethnicity who are leaving that area en masse," Vulin concluded.