Kosovo’s Government Spokesperson, Perparim Kryeziu, has listed a series of things through which he says Serbia has violated the Basic Agreement.
Kryeziu said that despite the EU acknowledging that the dialogue process hasn’t gone well, according to him, the lack of progress isn’t due to both sides, as he mentioned the violations Serbia has made just two weeks after accepting the Basic Agreement.
“Since then, 90 KFOR soldiers were injured in northern Kosovo by violent members of gangs under the observation of Serbian List leaders in May 2023. Journalists and the Kosovo Police were also targeted. Paradoxically, just a month later, the EU imposed measures against Kosovo, not Serbia.”
“In June 2023, three Kosovo police officers were abducted by Serbian special forces within Kosovo’s territory. Despite the ample evidence provided by our institutions confirming that Serbia has violated our territorial integrity, no action has been taken against Serbia by the EU,” Kryeziu wrote.
Furthermore, Kryeziu also mentioned the killing of reservist Afrim Bunjaku in the terrorist attack on September 24 in Banjskë, and the fact that criminal Milan Radoiçiq took responsibility for organizing the attack, and even met with former Serbian ambassador to the US, Marko Đurić.
“This month, over a thousand citizens of Kosovo have been arbitrarily stopped and mistreated by Serbian authorities at the border, for no reason. Among them were 10 Kosovo Police officers, four members of our Serbian community, including the Deputy Director of the Kosovo Police.”
“At the same time, Sadik Duraku, an Albanian who is also a British citizen, was later detained and wrongly accused. However, no measures have been taken against Serbia,” Kryeziu continued.
Furthermore, the government spokesperson said that Serbia’s recent actions came in a retaliatory manner just one day after the Parliamentary Assembly voted in favor of Kosovo’s membership in the Council of Europe.
“This membership is vehemently and publicly opposed by Serbia, despite Article 4 of the Basic Agreement. This, and other actions, prove that it’s not about ‘fault on both sides,’ but another bilateral issue,” he concluded.