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Albin Kurti for 'Financial Times': USA and EU are being 'too soft' with Serbia

2024-05-28 10:19:15Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Albin Kurti for 'Financial Times': USA and EU are being 'too
Albin Kurti

The European Union and the United States of America are being 'too soft' with Serbia. This is what the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, has stated for the 'Financial Times', saying that the EU and the US should give Serbia an 'ultimatum' to impose sanctions on Russia.

"Brussels and Washington should change their approach and set a deadline for Serbia to impose sanctions on the Russian Federation", Kurti said in an interview for the Financial Times.

Kurti says that Belgrade should stand on the side of the West against Moscow in order to give Kosovo the assurance that it is committed to the normalization of relations.

"Once Serbia imposes sanctions on the Russian Federation, then it would be a moment when they would show that they want to integrate into the EU and that Serbia without Russia cannot threaten the security of the continent. So then, I could believe that they basically want peace.”

He has said that Serbia must show commitment to EU integration by imposing sanctions on Russia and stop efforts to sit on "three or four stools".

Kurti has refused to say whether the Kosovo Police will withdraw the special units from the north, but has insisted that Serb complaints about their presence are diminishing.

Last week, Kosovo police raided several branches of a Serbian bank in the north of the country and confiscated Serbian currency. The dinar was outlawed as a medium of exchange in Kosovo earlier this year, even though many Kosovo Serbs are paid salaries or pensions in that currency. Kosovo uses the euro.

Kurti admitted that there are "sometimes differences" with his European and American allies "when it comes to strategies, operations and tactics on the one hand, and when it comes to relations with Serbia", but not on values ​​or principles.

He said that the West's "soft" approach to Serbia was "a consequence of the great hope that Serbia will jump into the Western democratic camp as soon as possible. In my opinion, we have waited too long to still be hopeful.


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