Brnabic: I won't apologize to Pristina, no dialogue with parties looking to topple gov't on the street

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Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said on June 4 that she would not take back her statement about people "from the forest" being part of the authorities in Pristina and that she would not apologize because she believed that to be true. She pointed out that she was in no way belittling the Albanian people, but that she had "no respect for Hashim Thaci and Ramush Haradinaj."

"I would have preferred never to have met Haradinaj, because you know the worst kinds of crimes he was accused of, but I have to deal even with the devil himself for the sake of Serbia's interest," Brnabic told the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation. She added that she was angry with the EU and the U.S. for forcing her "as a woman" to sit with "people responsible for the worst kinds of things."

The prime minister criticized a report by an expert group that was unveiled at the One Out of the Five Million protests, saying that the report entailed "that elections are fair only if Aleksandar Vucic himself does not take part in them." She dismissed the possibility of a dialogue with the opposition parties involved in the One Out of the Five Million protests, saying that there could be talks with an opposition that wanted to talk, "whereas those who wish to bring down the government on the street and storm the Public Service with chainsaws, gallows, I think that is not a relevant group for dialogue."