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December 9, 2022
Tensions on Kosovo and Metohija; A member of Kosovo Police injured; “It’s boiling”
Just to reiterate, around 300 members of Kosovo special forces (KSF), accompanied by numerous armored vehicles, entered the northern part of the city last night from the direction of the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
The so-called the Kosovo police announced that they will reinforce their presence in the north of Kosovo…reported Gazeta Express….
The Vice-President of the Serbian List, Igor Simić, said that since this morning the situation in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica is “calm but tense”. Simic told Radio and Television of Serbia that some of the units of the Kosovo Police that entered the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica last night are still deployed on the outskirts of the city.
“Another sleepless night is behind us because of Pristina’s attempt to occupy the north of Kosovo and Metohija. To someone from the outside, it may seem that the situation is normal since this morning, but it is boiling here,” said Simić.
He assessed that there were no destabilizing circumstances that would justify sending the police to the north of Kosovo. “The plan of (Prime Minister of the Government of the so-called Kosovo) Albin Kurti is clear, to put such pressure on the Serbs so that they withdraw from these areas,” Simic said.
He added that the Serbs from the north of Kosovo and Metohija will do “everything to preserve the peace”, but also assessed that it is not possible to predict the future moves of Pristina.
A member of the Kosovo police was slightly injured last night when armed persons attacked a patrol in the area of Zvečan municipality….
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Members of the Kosovo police entered the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica last night, it was announced that this was done in order to “strengthen the presence” in ethnically mixed settlements.
Tanjug
December 9, 2022
Brnabic: Serbia has right, intent to redeploy troops to Kosovo-Metohija
Albin Kurti’s actions have brought us to the brink of armed conflict, Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Friday and added that she believed Serbia had the right under UN SC Resolution 1244, as well as an intent, to redeploy a certain number of its troops to Kosovo-Metohija.
She noted that what Pristina’s PM was doing was a threat not only to Serbs, but to ethnic Albanians and entire Europe as well.
“It is a 19th-century policy. I am extremely concerned….Kurti has brought all of us to the very brink of war,” Brnabic said in a comment on the situation in Kosovo-Metohija following the latest incidents in the province.
“But he did not do it on his own. Our partners, including in the EU, ignore the situation completely and do not react, or react only when things become critical. You have [NATO’s] KFOR and EULEX, which are not doing their job, not only under the Brussels Agreement but also under the Kumanovo Agreement. They are not protecting the Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija, either south of the Ibar River or in the north of Kosovo-Metohija,” Brnabic said, adding that the agreements were being violated on a daily basis.
“I believe that, during the day, President Aleksandar Vucic will provide more information on his meetings about requesting a return of our forces to Kosovo-Metohija because KFOR is not doing its job and because Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija cannot feel safe,” she said.
“Their lives, including the lives of children in kindergartens, are under threat there,” Brnabic added, referring to Thursday’s KFOR and ROSU raid in a kindergarten in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.
Brnabic noted that she believed that, under UN SC Resolution 1244, Serbia had the right to redeploy a certain number of its troops to Kosovo-Metohija, as well as an intent to do so.
If KFOR fails to ensure peace, Serbia wants to ensure peace and stability, she explained.
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