Kosovo faces threats from abroad, especially from Serbia, said Prime Minister of Kosovo Albin Kurti on the second day of the Peace Forum in Paris, adding that the idea of exchanging territories is not dead, but that there is no possibility of it being implemented.
However, Kurti states that the territory exchange project has failed.
“Just as Moscow is dissatisfied with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Belgrade is not satisfied with the collapse of Yugoslavia, which it itself caused. We live in times when this project of exchanging territories has failed, but the idea is not dead, and I often see this when I meet or listen to the president of Serbia speak publicly or during a meeting in Brussels. People who have dreamed of exchanging borders for several years find it difficult to get rid of nostalgia and resentment and to participate in a solution that would be democratic and European. Despite the failure of the project, the idea exists, but without the possibility to implement it. The sooner we normalize relations with de jure and de facto recognition, it will be better for everyone,” said Kurti.
The Prime Minister of Kosovo stated that none of Serbia’s neighboring states will be safe from this until it enters the EU.
“On the one hand, they want to see the division of Kosovo, they would like territorial compensation for their mistakes, but that is not possible. On the other hand, we are witnessing destabilizing efforts in BiH, Montenegro and Kosovo, Serbia’s neighbors, sometimes in North Macedonia as well. Neighbors Serbia, as long as they are not part of the EU, are not safe from Serbia, and Brussels should take care of that,” says Kurti, who is reported by the media in Kosovo.
Kurti said that the Russian Federation likes the efforts to destabilize the Balkans, which, according to him, have an expansion in terms of diverting attention from the aggression that Russia started two years ago in Ukraine.
He recalled the event in Banjska, stating that it should have been an excuse for the entry of the Serbian army into Kosovo, Fena reports.
