The Serbian government has warned this Monday of the risk of a new escalation of tensions around the situation of the Serb minority living in the north of Kosovo, estimating that the situation is already “on the verge of armed conflict”, as explained by the Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic.
“I am afraid of an escalation. We will do everything to preserve peace and stability that is possible to achieve, but unfortunately I do not see any stability for the Kosovo Serbs,” Brnabic said in an interview on Serbian public television RTS. .
Brnabic accused the Kosovar government of systematically violating the human rights of the country’s Serb minority, and the European Union (EU) and the United States of ignoring these violations, to which he attributes the protests and barricades with which the Kosovar Serbs have been blockading for days highways in the north of the country.
They ask for “respect for their basic human rights,” stressed the prime minister, and assured that so far this month alone, Pristina has committed 16 “brutal violations” of international agreements and basic human rights.
She also accused KFOR (NATO’s mission in Kosovo) of not having prevented the alleged “ethnic cleansing” of 312 Kosovar towns that since 1999 had been left without a Serb population.
While the EU institutions are limited to “silently watching”, all Serbian security services consider that the situation has reached “the brink of armed conflict”, Brnabic declared.