TIRANA, December 15 – Prime Minister Edi Rama on Thursday described Serbia’s request to NATO to send Serbian troops to the north of Kosovo to protect the ethnic Serbs, another special piece of political rhetoric, completely surreal.
On the occasion of the end of the year holidays, Prime Minister Edi Rama hosted a dinner for representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in Tirana with whom he shared the impressions of the events of the year that is closing, as well as discussed the joint projects that will be realized soon in cooperation with friendly and partner countries.
Focusing on the situation in the north of Kosovo, Rama said that it is not a good end of the year for the normalization process between Kosovo and Serbia.
“The increase of tension in the north of Kosovo is not only useless, but deeply disturbing. It is unbelievable that we have to constantly deal with the appearance of barricades, setbacks in the normalization process and US and EU fire brigades running to save the framework of dialogue from the flames of heavy political rhetoric,” he said.
The Prime Minister noted that we have recently heard about requests made to NATO to send Serbian troops to the north of Kosovo to protect the ethnic Serbs.
“I understand that this may be another special piece of political rhetoric, but it is as surreal as it would be if Kosovo asked NATO to send Albanian troops to southern Serbia to protect ethnic Albanians. All this is very far from what we need. We have entered the third decade since Kosovo was freed once and for all from Belgrade. It will never be under Belgrade’s law again,” he added.
Rama said that “we need only three things: dialogue, dialogue, dialogue”.
In a statement made two days ago Rama told journalists that his government did not intend to send police forces to Kosovo if Serbia carried out its scheme to deploy ita military in northern Kosovo. / Argumentum.al
