The Director of the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, Petar Petkovic, said that the Minister for Communities and Returns in the Government of Kosovo, Nenad Rasič, has “announced the occupation” of Serbian educational and health institutions by the Kosovo authorities, adding that the role of in the Prime Minister’s Government, Albin Kurti, is to be a “leader” and a “megaphone”.
“Rasič is contributing to the daily anti-Serb campaign, which aims at an ethnically pure Kosovo and Metohija, without Serbs, which Kurti wants to leave without hospitals and schools, medicine and textbooks and thus cause a humanitarian catastrophe ”, says Petković’s reaction regarding the statement that Rasič gave to Radio Evropa e Lire.
However, in his statement, Rasič did not “announce” the occupation of hospitals and schools that operate in the areas where Serbs live in Kosovo, and operate on the basis of the Serbian system. However, Minister Rasič stated that the options should be planned so that we are not “surprised by what Belgrade is hiding from us”.
He also said that the educational and health institutions in the Serbian communities in Kosovo, which are financed from the budget of Serbia and operate under its system, will have to be “incorporated” into the legislative system of Kosovo, as the agreements reached in Brussels and foresee such a thing.
“We have to find space in the laws of Kosovo, so that our fellow citizens do not suffer damage”, Rasič told Radio Free Europe.
With the first agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, reached in Brussels in 2013, it was agreed to hold local elections in the north of Kosovo, to establish municipalities and other institutions according to the Kosovo system, as well as to establish the Association of municipalities with a Serbian majority in Kosovo, which would regulate the functioning of some Serbian institutions and their financing.
Despite this, Kosovo has not formed the Association and Serbia has refused to dissolve its parallel institutions.
But, from the beginning of this year, the Kosovo authorities have started to close the Serbian institutions, with the reasoning that their work violates the constitutional order of Kosovo.
These actions have been criticized by the Serbian community and the international community, which says that such “uncoordinated” movements can increase tensions on the ground.
