President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, claims that Serbia “never campaigned” for the imposition of sanctions against Kosovo, in a direct response to the call of the President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, for the sanctioning of Serbia for the violence in the north of Kosovo.

The Kosovo Police was attacked by an armed Serb group in the village of Banjské, in the municipality of Zveçan on September 24, where Sergeant Afrim Bunjaku was killed. In the ensuing fighting in the village monastery, three Serb attackers were killed.

Serbia has rejected Kosovo’s accusations that it is behind the attack described by the Kosovo authorities as an “attempt to annex the north of Kosovo”.

“Unlike them, we don’t try to compete if something bad happens to Pristina or somewhere else. You never heard us campaigning for sanctions against them. We are not interested in this, we are interested in having a normal life, for the Serbs in Kosovo to have a normal life”, said the president of Serbia in Granada, Spain, where he is participating in the Summit of the European Political Community.

Earlier, President Osmani said that there is no reason to meet Vučić, before sanctions are imposed on him for the recent developments in the north of Kosovo.

But later the same day, the High Representative of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, said that he will sit “together” with President Osmani and President Vučić in Granada.