Prime Minister Edi Rama has strongly condemned the attack on a EULEX observation patrol in the north of Kosovo.

Through a post on social media, Rama requested that the European Union urgently convene the dialogue table.

“Attacks on EULEX in Kosovo are unequivocally reprehensible, just as every act of violence against the Kosovo police is reprehensible. The reappearance of the barricades in the North of Kosovo, contradicts every law and every spirit of dialogue and not only does not solve anything, but rather complicates everything further! The postponement of the elections by the President of the Republic of Kosovo is a meaningful signal, to which the high authorities of Belgrade must respond with the same spirit and sense of responsibility, for not allowing further escalation of destabilizing acts!  Belgrade must exert its influence on the Serbs of the North of Kosovo, without justifying their actions, whatever the reasons!

The reasons are discussed, they are not used as a weapon against the police and as a barricade against the legal order. The EU should urgently call the dialogue table”, wrote Rama on Twitter.

The European Union’s Mission for the Rule of Law in Kosovo, EULEX, has confirmed that a bomb was thrown at an observation patrol on Saturday evening, near Rudara, in the municipality of Zvecan.

EULEX announced that no officer of the Specialized Police Unit was injured and no material damage was caused, but it called such attacks unacceptable.