Igor Simic (Beta / Armenija Zajmi Besevic)
A Serb Ticket vice-president, Igor Simic, said on July 22 that pressure against the Serbs in Kosovo would grow as an early parliamentary vote drew closer.
Simic said in an interview with the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation (RTS) that by arresting Serbs Pristina was trying to create an artificial balance against the summonses the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers had sent to the Kosovo Liberation Army's former commanders.
In a comment on the Kosovo prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj's resignation, Simic said that in the eyes of the Serb Ticket, the government in Pristina stopped existing a year ago, when a series of moves was launched to intimidate the Serbs.
As Kosovo's early elections draw near, "the intimidation campaign will gain momentum, because Albanian leaders have nothing else to offer to their voters but hatred towards the Serbs," Simic has warned.
The Kosovo Serb official explained that Haradinaj, whose resignation provoked an early vote, intended to claim a political win out of it, blocking the dialogue with Belgrade.
Simic underlined that there's no one in Pristina who is willing to re-launch the talks, as all the parties have been carefully avoiding the theme, determined not to offer it to their voters.
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