Prime Minister Does Not Expect Kosovo Police to Forcibly Remove Barricades

Ana Brnabic/BETAPHOTO/AMIR HAMZAGIC

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said on Dec. 24 that she did not believe in a scenario in which Kosovo police would forcibly remove barricades in the north of Kosovo, adding that she did not know how the Franco-German proposal for Kosovo would be discussed when the Brussels agreement had not yet been implemented.

“I do not believe that such a scenario is possible. I do not want to believe that the Kosovo police could start forcibly removing the barricades, thereby fulfilling (Kosovo Prime Minister) Albin Kurti’s threats – that would mean that the people at the barricades would be attacked, and there are women, children and old people there,” Brnabic said at a press conference.

The Serbian prime minister underlined that Serbia had good cooperation with KFOR. “They are really fair,” the prime minister said, adding that KFOR was still discussing Serbia’s request to send Serbian security forces back to Kosovo under U.N. Security Resolution 1244.

Brnabic also said that she did not know how it would be possible to discuss a new agreement proposed by the European Union to address problems in Kosovo, “when the first one, the Brussels agreement, signed in 2013 by Belgrade, Pristina and the EU, as a guarantor of its implementation, has yet to be implemented.”